TED Theme: New on TED.comEvery week on TED.com, we post 5 fresh TEDTalks, from TED Conferences and partner events. Talks come from recent conferences and from our amazing archive of talks from TEDs going back to 1984. You can be notified of all the new TEDTalks via our RSS feed.Reinventing the school lunch- September 8, 2008 Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustainable, seasonal and even educational food.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ann_cooper_talks_school_lunches.html Spinning a story of Mama- September 8, 2008 Storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and luminous tale of parents and kids, starring her Cuban mother. Settle in and enjoy the ride -- Mama's driving!http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/carmen_agra_deedy_spins_stories.html A digital library, free to the world- September 8, 2008 Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html Celebrating the camel- September 8, 2008 Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though he couldn't bring a live camel to TED, he gets his camera crew as close as humanly possible to a one-ton beast in full rut.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/keith_bellows_on_the_camel_s_hump.html How to survive a nuclear attack- September 4, 2008 The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/irwin_redlener_warns_of_nuclear_terrorism.html The deep oceans: a ribbon of life- September 4, 2008 With vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys and volcanic ridges of the oceans' depths, where life is bizarre, resilient and shockingly abundant.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_gallo_on_life_in_the_deep_oceans.html The real difference between liberals and conservatives- September 4, 2008 Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html Helping humans and animals live together in Africa- September 4, 2008 The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns live side-by-side with threatened animals.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jane_goodall_at_tedglobal_07.html The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry- September 4, 2008 In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/peter_hirshberg_on_tv_and_the_web.html Taking the next giant leap in space- September 3, 2008 Peter Diamandis says it's our moral imperative to keep exploring space -- and he talks about how, with the X Prize and other incentives, we're going to do just that.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/peter_diamandis_on_our_next_giant_leap.html |