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TED talks - Ideas worth spreading (1 Viewer)

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Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes

When I see unspeakable acts of evil I always end up asking myself "What led to this?" I don't think people are entirely good or evil. I think any of us can be dragged into either side with the right circumstances. I believe its just lazy to label another person as "evil". It takes a lot more time, energy, and analysis to better understand why an act of evil occurred.

Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms

I've posted this before in another thread. Its a great look at the state of education. What? How? Why? He also has another talk on the TED website discussing how we're killing creativity in schools.

 
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.

 
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I never was a fan of this guy (actually sort of thought he was kind of a dbag) but this was pretty interesting.

David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min

In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home.

 
'AhrnCityPahnder said:
I never was a fan of this guy (actually sort of thought he was kind of a dbag) but this was pretty interesting.

David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min

In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home.
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Yep. Great video. Great talk
 
Will add posts when I get home, but my two favorite are:

Jamie Oliver - Teach every child about food

Jason Fried - Why work doesn't happen at work

 
Watched the one on the "flipped classroom" last night. Wife is going to a conference next week about this concept. Pretty interesting.

Sorry, cant find the link, watched it on the Roku.

 
'AhrnCityPahnder said:
I never was a fan of this guy (actually sort of thought he was kind of a dbag) but this was pretty interesting.

David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min

In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home.
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Am I the only one that heard horrible audio on this video?
 
'Hooper31 said:
Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes

When I see unspeakable acts of evil I always end up asking myself "What led to this?" I don't think people are entirely good or evil. I think any of us can be dragged into either side with the right circumstances. I believe its just lazy to label another person as "evil". It takes a lot more time, energy, and analysis to better understand why an act of evil occurred.
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This was incredible. Thanks so much for posting it.
 
I've skipped over this entire thread to ask: what are TED talks? Are they REALLY famous, or just kind of underground? Somewhere in between? It appears to be the kind of thing that if you don't move in the right circles, you'll never get exposed to them.

I've run into a small number of references to TED over the past few months, and I can't really get a handle on what it really IS.

 
'Doug B said:
I've skipped over this entire thread to ask: what are TED talks? Are they REALLY famous, or just kind of underground? Somewhere in between? It appears to be the kind of thing that if you don't move in the right circles, you'll never get exposed to them.

I've run into a small number of references to TED over the past few months, and I can't really get a handle on what it really IS.
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LINK to the TED wiki
TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading."

TED was founded in 1984 as a one-off event, and the conference was held annually from 1990 in Monterey, California. TED's early emphasis was largely technology and design, consistent with a Silicon Valley center of gravity. The events are now held in Long Beach and Palm Springs in the U.S. as well as in Europe and Asia, offering live streaming of the talks. They address an increasingly wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, educator Salman Khan, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners.[2] TED's current curator is the British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson.

From 2005 to 2009, three $100,000 TED Prizes were awarded annually to help its winners realize a chosen wish to change the world. From 2010, in a changed selection process, a single winner is chosen to ensure that TED can maximize its efforts in achieving the winner's wish. Each winner unveils their wish at the main annual conference.

Since June 2006,[3] the talks have been offered for free viewing online, under a Creative Commons license, through TED.com. As of July 2010, over 700 talks are available free online. By January 2009 they had been viewed 50 million times. In July 2010, the viewing figure stood at more than 290 million, reflecting a still growing global audience.[4]
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'Doug B said:
I've skipped over this entire thread to ask: what are TED talks? Are they REALLY famous, or just kind of underground? Somewhere in between? It appears to be the kind of thing that if you don't move in the right circles, you'll never get exposed to them.

I've run into a small number of references to TED over the past few months, and I can't really get a handle on what it really IS.
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Stuff White People Like sums it up pretty well. Excerpt from the opening of the article:
One of the easiest ways to create something that white people will like is to create something that will allow them to feel smart but doesn’t require a large amount of work, time, or effort. There is, however, a catch. Whatever it is that you create cannot be a shortcut. You see white people like the idea of getting smarter quickly, but they don’t like the idea of people thinking that they are lazy. It is a bit of a paradox, but it does explain why white people only like Cliff Notes if they are part of some sort of hilarious college story about last-minute studying for an exam. And why they consider it highly unacceptable to use cliff notes or Wikipedia to get a rough understanding of a book you don’t want to read.

Unfortunately being able to create something that makes you feel smarter without having to do a lot of work has been very difficult. So only a few ideas have ever gained traction with white people, the most notable of which being documentary films and public radio. However, in the past decade a new item has been added to this very short list-TED Talks.
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