TED talks about dark matter

In the physics/astronomy nerd category: The 2009 TED Global conference just wrapped up last week, and, on a fishing trip to see if they had posted any of the new talks yet (yes, I am a junkie), I found one from earlier this year with a short explanation by Brian Cox for why the Large Hadron Collider (the huge particle accelerator in Europe that we discussed here and here) failed. Thought I’d post it, even though his estimates for when it would be back online are kinda wrong.

And here’s a classic TED talk about dark matter and dark energy from last year’s conference by Patricia Burchat. I love this one.

Finally, here is Brian Cox’s original TED talk about the Large Hadron Collider.

If you haven’t been watching TED talks already, I’m sorry. Now you’re hooked too.