2010 Jessica Green on micro ecosystems

The crease between your arms is a tropical rain forest

2010 Jonathan Klein on images that change the world

When you are faced with a photograph that is difficult to look at you can make a choice to turn away or do something; we bring to each image our own values

2010 Frederik Balagadde on microdiagnostics

Similar technologies to those that allowed miniaturization of electronics are now allowing miniaturization of diagnostics - think of a micro fluid system analogous to a microchip.

2010 David Bolinsky says, "see your dermatologist"

Tanning kills

2010 Kevin R. Stone on bioware

Use biologic tissue to regrow damaged human tissue or replace it with human or animal donor tissue (primed with your stem cells) instead of doing artificial joint replacement and harness the benefits of 400 million years of evolution.

2010 Daniel Kraft races through a swathe of medic technologies

Exponentially more powerful and cheaper technology and data will transform the health care paradigm through targeted personalized interventions that will move us towards stage 0 medicine.

2010 Felix Kramer on throwing away his running shoes

Shoes do nothing to protect runners, in fact it's safer to run bare foot because you land better

2010 Catherine Mohr on sustainability choices

Often it's not where you expect that the sustainability benefit (or cost) lies

Michael Martin on reaction to recession same as to a Tornado

Stay positive, provide leadership, control your senses, stay safe, it will ultimately pass

2009 Hans Rosling (short talk)

Always de-average

2009 Arthur Benjamin (short talk)

School math curriculum requires a dramatic shift -- place probability and statistics at the pinnacle, rather than calculus.

2009 Nina Jablonski

Barack Obama is the first moderately pigmented president of the United States.

2009 Yann Arthus-Bertrand

It's too late to be pessimistic.

2009 Jake Eberts

Declarations by politicians accumulate and get lost but the work of storytellers persist ("Oceans" documentary on the state of our oceans to be released in 2009).

2009 Seth Godin

You don't need charisma to be a leader, leading gives you charisma.

2009 Ray Anderson

Take from the earth only what it can remake naturally and quickly because it's good business.

2009 Tim Berners-Lee

Everyone should take up the chant, "Linked data NOW!" -- raw data is better than processed, now is better than later.

2009 Bill Gates

More research money is spent on baldness than on malaria!

2009 Peter Singer

The ability to run robotic wars ends mankind's monopoly on war and will inure us to its horrors.

2009 Juan Enriquez

Trends show that artifical body parts will not just overcome handicap and illness but will soon provide superior ability -- opening up a slew of new issues.