TED Bookstore 2013
If you missed out on attending the famous TED conference this year — you’re not alone. But now you can queue up some of the books that were available at the TED Bookstore for your spring reading …
Science
The Half-life of Facts
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades we were convinced that …
Freeman Dyson on The Difference Between Science and Philsophy
Freeman Dyson, writing in The NY Review of Books: On quantum physics The essence of quantum physics is unpredictability. At every instant, the objects in our physical environment—the atoms in our …
Richard Feynman on Why Questions
In this beautiful video, Richard Feynman on the nature of why questions and how they help us understand the world. Interviewer: If you get hold of two magnets, and you push them, you can feel this …
Physicist Richard Feynman on Beauty of a Flower
Richard Feynman talking about the beauty of the natural world. I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a …
Richard Feynman Teaches you the Scientific Method
The scientific method refers to a process of thought based on integrating previous knowledge, observing, measuring, and logical reasoning. In this short video taken from his lectures, Physicist …