Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet | Dan Bricklin
TED Talks Daily11 Jan 2017

Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet | Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin changed the world forever when he codeveloped VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet and grandfather of programs you probably use every day like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Join the software engineer and computing legend as he explores the tangled web of first jobs, daydreams and homework problems that led to his transformational invention.

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How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time | Su Kahumbu

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This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life | Karen Lloyd

This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life | Karen Lloyd

How deep into the Earth can we go and still find life? Marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd introduces us to deep-subsurface microbes: tiny organisms that live buried meters deep in ocean mud and have be...

6 Feb 201813min

How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism | Stuart Duncan

How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism | Stuart Duncan

The internet can be an ugly place, but you won't find bullies or trolls on Stuart Duncan's Minecraft server, AutCraft. Designed for children with autism and their families, AutCraft creates a safe onl...

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How I earned a law diploma while on death row | Peter Ouko

How I earned a law diploma while on death row | Peter Ouko

Peter Ouko spent 18 years in Kamiti Prison in Kenya, sometimes locked up in a cell with 13 other grown men for 23 and a half hours a day. In a moving talk, he tells the story of how he was freed -- an...

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How we can use space technology to improve life on Earth | Danielle Wood

How we can use space technology to improve life on Earth | Danielle Wood

Danielle Wood leads the Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab, where she works to tear down the barriers that limit the benefits of space exploration to only the few, the rich or the elite...

1 Feb 201810min

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

"It is the artist's job to unearth stories that people try to bury with shovels of complacency and time," says poet and freedom fighter Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa. Performing her poem "The Joys of Mo...

1 Feb 20187min

My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar

My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar

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31 Jan 201816min

Could the social lives of fish help us save coral reefs? | Mike Gil

Could the social lives of fish help us save coral reefs? | Mike Gil

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