 What if you could experience a news story with your entire body, not just with your mind? What if you could (virtually) step inside the scene of a crime? Nonny de la Peña is working on a new form of journalism that combines traditional reporting with virtual reality technology to put the audience inside the story. Watch »  For the people of Kiribati, climate change isn't something to be debated or denied -- it's an everyday reality. The low-lying Pacific Island nation will likely soon be underwater, thanks to rising sea levels. Kiribati's president. Anote Tong, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about what's next. "In order to deal with climate change, there's got to be sacrifice. There's got to be commitment," he says. "We've got to tell people that the world has changed." Watch » |  What's going on inside the brains of animals? Can we know what, or if, they're thinking and feeling? Carl Safina thinks we can. Using discoveries and anecdotes that span ecology, biology and behavioral science, he weaves together stories of whales, wolves, elephants and albatrosses to argue that just as we think, feel, use tools and express emotions, so too do the other creatures – and minds – that share the Earth with us. Watch »  Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they sheltered in. Paleoanthropologist, rock art researcher and TED Senior Fellow Genevieve von Petzinger has studied and codified these ancient markings in caves across Europe. The uniformity of her findings suggest that graphic communication, and the ability to preserve and transmit messages beyond a single moment in time, may be much older than we think. Watch » | |
