 | Charlie Rose - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / Spencer Wells /... Segment 1: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University talks about his latest project for PBS, African American Lives. Segment 2: Spencer Wells is the director of the Genographic Project which aims to chart ancient human migrations from Africa across the continents. Segment 3: Part two of a conversation with Major General Douglas Lute, Director of Operations, Centcom. Credits: Host:Charlie Rose, Guest:Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Guest:Spencer Wells, Guest:Douglas Lute |
 | Kwabena Boahen: Making a computer that works like the brain http://www.ted.com Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads actually make for a small, light, superfast computer. |
 | Five News | DNA Family Tree Five's Jonathan Samuels traces his family with the help of DNA and www.ancestry.co.uk |
 | Freeman Dyson: Let's look for life in the outer solar system http://www.ted.com Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it. |
 | Paul Rothemund: The astonishing promise of DNA folding http://www.ted.com In 2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA folding. Now he lays out in clear, adundant detail the immense promise of this field -- to create tiny machines that assemble themselves. |
 | Peter Diamandis: Taking the next giant leap in space http://www.ted.com 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. |
 | Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Part 1 of 13) The Journey of Man is a documentary that talks about our evolution, our recent history, and how we came to be to the way we are today. It looks at the Y chromosome, that's passed down from male to male, and tracks the marker mutations to map our ancestors' journey. It's how we conquered the Earth in just the last 59,000 years. |
 | The Genographic Project Could our ancestors be more alike than we think? Four people map their genographical history to find out. See All National Geographic Videos http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/?source=4001 |
 | David Griffin: Photography connects us with the world http://www.ted.com The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories. |
 | Brian Greene: The universe on a string http://www.ted.com n clear, nontechnical language, string theorist Brian Greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from Einstein's notions of gravity and space-time to superstring theory, where minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe. (This mind-bending theory may soon be put to the test at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.) |
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