TED Talk Tuesdays

TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design Join us for our showing of featured TED Talks. TED is devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading.” The annual conferences in Long Beach and Oxford bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives. TED is a community welcoming people from every discipline and culture who have just two things in common: they seek a deeper understanding of the world, and they hope to turn that understanding into a better future for us all.

Tuesday, January 19th: 12:00-1:00 PM

• Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce: Author Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.
• Rory Sutherland: Life Lessons from an Ad Man: Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.

Tuesday, February 16th: 12:00-1:00 PM

• Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity: Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius.
• Helen Fisher studies the brain in love: Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.

Tuesday, March 16th: 12:00-1:00 PM

• Brian Greene on String Theory: Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.
• Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows: Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.