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Cosmos
A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of cosmos.
Talks about Cosmos
13:42
Dave Brain
What a planet needs to sustain life
Posted
Aug 2016
10:58
Allan Adams
What the discovery of gravitational waves means
Posted
Feb 2016
15:38
Wendy Freedman
This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
Posted
Aug 2015
11:48
Alex Wissner-Gross
A new equation for intelligence
Posted
Feb 2014
8:48
John Lloyd
An animated tour of the invisible
Posted
Sep 2012
7:53
Jon Nguyen
Tour the solar system from home
Posted
Jun 2012
18:40
Seth Shostak
ET is (probably) out there — get ready
Posted
Jun 2012
10:08
Karen Bass
Unseen footage, untamed nature
Posted
May 2012
21:47
Brian Greene
Is our universe the only universe?
Posted
Apr 2012
12:08
Chris Anderson (TED)
Questions no one knows the answers to
Posted
Mar 2012
15:54
Sean Carroll
Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
Posted
May 2011
17:40
David Christian
The history of our world in 18 minutes
Posted
Apr 2011
16:38
David Deutsch
A new way to explain explanation
Posted
Oct 2009
17:26
Martin Rees
Is this our final century?
Posted
Jan 2007
21:56
Richard Dawkins
Why the universe seems so strange
Posted
Sep 2006
19:00
David Deutsch
Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
Posted
Sep 2006