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≡ Category: Music, Science, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
Canadian “geek rapper” Baba Brinkman first garnered popular attention with a well-received, well-reviewed rap adaptation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (To get a sense of the project, check out this brief scene from “The Pardoner’s Tale.”) And we also previously featured his brilliant work on Macmillan’s What’s Your English? campaign. Brinkman has [...]
≡ Category: Science, Technology, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last week, Citigroup admitted that hackers exposed the private financial data of more than 360,000 customer accounts. Meanwhile, in an unrelated attack, Lulz Security managed to bring down the CIA website, and this week they’ve declared war on government agencies around the world. Now might be a good time to beef up on your knowledge of malware, cybercrime, and [...]
≡ Category: Art, TED Talks | ≅ 2 Comments
Arkansas-born artist Shea Hembrey kicks off his TED talk by confessing to a hick childhood in which he and his sister “would compete to see who could eat the most squirrel brains.” That modest joke sets the stage for his introduction of Seek, a project Hembrey conceived in response to his disappointment with several exhibits of [...]
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Since the break-up of Talking Heads in 1991, David Byrne has made a good career for himself as a solo artist, working in film and music, and also becoming an active supporter of cycling. Overtly intellectual, Byrne has given lectures on a great variety of topics – from Carl Jung to the ways in which venue and context shape artistic [...]
≡ Category: Film, Media, TED Talks | ≅ 1 Comment
Morgan Spurlock’s newest documentary, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, exposes the myriad ways in which popular media is almost wholly sponsored, leased, bought and branded by powerful corporations. Ironically — and intentionally — Spurlock made sure his documentary would also be almost wholly sponsored, leased, bought and branded by powerful corporations. In his very funny TED talk, [...]
≡ Category: MIT, Science, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
Deb Roy is the director of the Cognitive Machines group at the MIT Media Lab. For the first few years of his son’s life, Roy installed cameras in every room of the family home. Now he jokes that he has the “largest home video collection ever made” – roughly 90,000 hours of images and footage [...]
≡ Category: Harvard, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
10 Harvard professors. 10 fascinating ideas. 10 minutes each. That was the gist of Harvard Thinks Big, a TED-esque event held on February 11th. Now fast forward several weeks, and the talks all appear online for free. Find them on YouTube, iTunes, or Harvard’s dedicated web site. Of all the 10 talks, we decided to feature one: Daniel [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
Where will the Middle East go from here? Towards democracy, as many hope? Towards a more theocratic model, as some despair? Or, towards more of the same disillusioning autocracy? On the first day of the big TED conference, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, offered a supremely optimistic take on the revolutions transforming Tunisia, [...]
≡ Category: Film, TED Talks, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
This week, some of the world’s greatest thinkers (and biggest spenders) are gathered in Palm Springs and Long Beach, California for TED’s annual conference. In case your invitation to TED2011 got lost in the mail along with ours, you can still keep up with the conference through TED’s homepage. Some highlights so far include an [...]
≡ Category: TED Talks | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick fyi for TED heads in our audience: Right here, you can find an online spreadsheet that lists 875 TEDTalks, with handy links to each individual video. This evolving Google doc will give you access to more than 265 hours of “riveting talks by remarkable people.” Because the page is updated on a regular basis, you’ll [...]
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