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≡ Category: Education, TED Talks | ≅ 2 Comments
A quick heads up: On Saturday, an independent TED conference will get underway in New York City. It’s dubbed TEDxNYED, and a top notch lineup of speakers (including Lawrence Lessig, Michael Wesch, Gina Bianchini, Henry Jenkins, Jay Rosen and others) will focus on a topic near and dear to our readers’ hearts: how new media and technology will shape the [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Science, TED Talks | ≅ 3 Comments
The major TED conference wrapped up late last week. And now the videos start to roll out. Above Bill Gates (to quote TED) “unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for miracles to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? [...]
≡ Category: Math, Science, TED Talks | ≅ 1 Comment
Our reader Garnet sets the stage for this video: “Mathematicians have long declared that geometrical hyperbolic space could not be modeled in the real world. Now it’s been done, through crochet! Watch TED video science writer Margaret Wertheim explain how the art of crochet emulates sea slugs creating coral structures in hyperbolic space, using art [...]
≡ Category: Science, TED Talks | ≅ 2 Comments
TED recently took its show to India, and one of the more interesting presentations featured neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran (UCSD) explaining how mirror neurons, a recently discovered system in the brain, “allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization,” and also helped us evolve as a species. Good [...]
≡ Category: Life, TED Talks | ≅ 2 Comments
Last week, we waded into the best of TED debate. What’s the best TED Talk out there? It’s hard to say. Purely subjective. But we can say one thing. Jill Bolte Taylor’s “Stroke of Insight” talk reaches the top of many lists. What happens when a neuroanatomist experiences a massive stroke and feels all the [...]
≡ Category: TED Talks | ≅ 19 Comments
What’s the best TED Talk ever? That’s the little debate taking place on Reddit.com, and the answer is not obvious, seeing that TED now has over 500 talks available in its archive. (You can find a constantly updated list of every TED Talk in a Google spreadsheet here.)
Now, what are some of the Reddit favorites? Here [...]
≡ Category: TED Talks, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Science | ≅ 2 Comments
If you regularly visit Open Culture, then you’re probably familiar with TED Talks — the series of 15 minute “riveting talks by remarkable people” that TED produces and makes free to the world. We’ve included TED in our collection, Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites, and it’s one of the best sources [...]
≡ Category: Science, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
Brilliant, and we’ve added this one, too, to our YouTube Favorites. Now I’m off for the long weekend. See you Tuesday!
≡ Category: Math, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
Arthur Benjamin is a self-proclaimed “mathemagician.” He’s also a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. No need to say more. Watch him go. We’re adding this one to our list of YouTube favorites.
via The Teaching Company’s Facebook Page.
≡ Category: Language Lessons, Media, TED Talks | ≅ 1 Comment
Today, we’re featuring a guest piece by Tony Yet, a Chinese student, who is helping lead an effort to bring TEDTalks to China. This is part of a larger TED Open Translation Project, which wants to move TEDTalks “beyond the English-speaking world by offering subtitles, time-coded transcripts and the ability for any talk to be translated [...]
≡ Category: TED Talks | ≅ 2 Comments
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, talked at last week’s TED Conference about writers, their “genius,” and the expectations that we place on it. I know that Gilbert — or at least her last book — has a lot of fans. And that’s why I’m posting this here. Personally, I’m not so much a [...]
≡ Category: Psychology, TED Talks | ≅ 1 Comment
Speaking at the TED conference in 2007, Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and now Outliers: The Story of Success) introduces you to the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce, which ultimately tells you something essential about human choice and happiness.
≡ Category: Science, TED Talks, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
From the TedTalks conference. Fascinating talk. Here’s a summary that introduces the clip below …
“Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding [...]
≡ Category: TED Talks, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Late in the week, TEDTalks named its top ten videos. Whether this is a quantitative or qualitative judgment, I am not sure. On the list, you’ll find Al Gore talking about how to avert a climate crisis, David Gallo showing amazing underwater creatures, and Ken Robinson describing why schools kill creativity (we’ve posted that one [...]
≡ Category: Psychology, TED Talks, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 10 Comments
Once upon a time we told you about TED Talks, the annual conference that brings together the world’s “thought-leaders, movers and shakers.” These talks have been available on iTunes in both audio (iTunes – Feed) and video (iTunes – Feed). And now you can apparently find some on YouTube. Below we highlight a few.
First up, [...]
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