Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I Make Robots the Size of a Grain of Rice

Associate Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter packs advanced technologies into tiny robots that can overcome obstacles 80 times their height. By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Prof. Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies — and then they add rockets!

Rob Prestowitz: All in the Family: Crackheads, Skinheads, and Angels

Rob Prestowitz makes a difference in the Delaware community by taking a holistic approach in serving hundreds of high risk urban youth and their families. ABOUT TEDx TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, ‘ideas worth spreading’. The programme is designed to give communities, organisations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through […]

Atarangi Muru: Maori Healer

Atarangi Muru (Ngati Kuri, Ngati Pakahi and Te Rarawa) is a member of a small group of healers who travel the globe sharing and teaching the healing arts of New Zealand. Since 2000 and for the global purposes, they have called themselves the Maori Healers of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

MCP Trio

From New York City, the jazz capital of the world, the MCP Trio is ‘a band of musical brothers’ — their music, a hat tip to the time-honoured tradition of the piano trio. Steve Myerson (piano) Billy Carrión Jr (bass) and Jonathon Peretz (drums) probe those established boundaries to perform an impressive range of sui […]

Linus Torvalds: The Mind Behind Linux

Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice. First with the Linux kernel which helps power the internet, and again with Git, a version control system (VCS) for tracking changes in computer files and co-ordinating work on those files among multiple people. It’s primarily used for software development but it can be used to keep track of changes […]

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