Allan Greg talks to Craig Kielburger about his new book The World Needs Your Kid, which offers tips for raising compassionate and caring children with a uniquely Canadian perspective. (27m 7s)

Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of seventeen bestselling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and …

BeBionic hands feature naturally compliant grip patterns combining innovative technology with life-like appearance. Functions of the hand such as speed, grip force and grip patterns may be custom programmed to suit individual …

Back for the second the at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Joe Pine II speaks about the Multiverse. He defines the universe by 3 axes: time, matter and space. But what happens if we look at the …

Are we in danger of running out of water? California’s population is growing by 600,000 people a year, but much of the state receives as much annual rainfall as Morocco. With fish populations crashing, global …

Anthony Atala’s state-of-the-art lab grows human organs — from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like …

The @Google program welcomed Bre Pettis and Zack Hoeken to Google’s New York office to talk about makerbots, making things, and being awesome. (51m 27s)

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks to Bre Pettis, and Zach Hoeken about their new company, MakerBot Industries (2m 39s)

Drivers may face limits on the carbon they emit from their cars said The Right Honourable David Miliband MP, Britain’s  Secretary of State for the Environment, at a free public lecture at the University of …

Results from the Human Genome Project are enabling scientists to understand how individual cancers form and progress. This information, when combined with newly developed drugs, can optimize the treatment of individual cancers. Joe Gray, director …

Author Malcolm Gladwell talks about his new book What the Dog Saw, a compilation of his stories appearing in The New Yorker magazine.

Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem — the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil …

Ray Kurzweil’s opening speech at Singularity University’s inaugural executive program. (41m 39s)

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, explains how large corporations are doing good to do well. (11m 57s)

Will the printed word become obsolete? Access to information is constantly changing, and the popularity of e-books and online material is on the rise. To survive, publishing companies are trying to adapt to new forms …

Harvard law professor and author Jonathan Zittrain discusses the unusual and distinctive technologies whose power increases in proportion to the people participating in them, contrasted with other technologies that leverage what the few can impose …

Don Tapscott discusses the future of education at TEDxToronto.

While many are already talking about the notion of a shift in power from West to East, a thought-provoking book by author Martin Jacques called When China Rules the World takes this even further by …

For hundreds of years, scientists have been poaching design ideas from structures in nature. Now, biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley are working together to design a broad range of new products, such as life-saving …

Imagine living cells acting as memory devices; biofuels brewing from yeast, or a light receptor taken from algae that makes photographs on a plate of bacteria. With the new science of synthetic biology, the goal …

Are we in danger of running out of water? California’s population is growing by 600,000 people a year, but much of the state receives as much annual rainfall as Morocco. With fish populations crashing, global …

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, visits Yale and speaks about Wikipedia, its purpose, criticisms and its place in the academic and human sphere. (58m 43s)

China is tightening controls over some of the worlds most obscure but valuable materials. The Asian economic superpower currently produces more than 90 percent of the worlds so-called rare earth metals, which are used in …

The impact of China’s growth on South America’s largest country. (5m 43s)

SIMYO and Ahead of Time presents the future of mobile media and communication. This film is presenting a summary of key result of the open think tank MOCOM 2020. (5m)