Dacher Keltner received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. After a post-doc at UCSF with Paul Ekman, in 1992 he took his first academic job, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then returned to Berkeley’s Psychology Department in [...]

What can a stroke tell us about brain development and communication? How can brain-computer interfacing reduce surgery time? What can a blind man avoiding obstacles in a room tell us about vision and consciousness? Bradley Voytek (ketyov.com) is completing his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the role of brain [...]

What can a stroke tell us about brain development and communication? How can brain-computer interfacing reduce surgery time? What can a blind man avoiding obstacles in a room tell us about vision and consciousness? Bradley Voytek (ketyov.com) is completing his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the role of brain [...]

David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of books, essays, articles and short stories; and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent. He writes columns for Fortune and for MIT Technology Review, and is the Chief Correspondent for public radio’s “Biotech Nation.” He writes for the New York Times, Wired, Discover, National Geographic, [...]

Rick Smolan is a former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer best known as the co-creator of the Day in the Life and America 24/7 series. He and his partner, Jennifer Erwitt, are the principals of Against All Odds Productions, which specializes in the design and execution of large-scale global projects that combine compelling storytelling [...]

Amit Deutsch recently graduated from Berkeley with a degree in psychology. His interest in the mind and the effects of group mentalities began in high school when he started interviewing Holocaust survivors and publishing their stories. Being an Israeli-born American has helped him develop the multicultural perspective that fuels all of his social activism. In [...]

ELEW has toured the world, recorded, and performed continuously with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Elvin Jones, Roy Hargrove, and Cassandra Wilson, among others. He won the 1999 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, his mesmerizing piano theatrics even then hinting at the new musical paradigm he would one day create. Now, [...]

ELEW has toured the world, recorded, and performed continuously with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Elvin Jones, Roy Hargrove, and Cassandra Wilson, among others. He won the 1999 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, his mesmerizing piano theatrics even then hinting at the new musical paradigm he would one day create. Now, [...]

Ross Evans likes making things that solve problems and so he became a rather prolific and diverse inventor when he was an undergraduate in college. Among his brainchildren were an underwater breathing system for capsized kayakers, a kids fort-building system now sold by Cranium, and an innovative wall system for quickly partitioning rooms. But Evans’ [...]

AT TEDxBerkeley, Stephen Few will show that a picture is indeed worth a thousand words–but not every picture. Simple graphical representations of information can tell important stories clearly and compellingly, but only when they’re designed with an understanding of how people see and think. Otherwise, graphs fail to inform and can even entirely mislead. Stephen [...]