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A excellent site that posts talks from the yearly conference.
Sponsored by BMW… Another reason I'm fairly certain I'll drive one of those some day… If only they brought the 1-series hatchback to the US instead of just the coupe.
- My Fave Talks
- Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
- 9 - Interesting for a stats driven view of the world
- Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
- 9 - Interesting for getting ideas on how to improve education
- Also see - the current top 10 Talks
- Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
- View Log
- older
- underwater life
- deep scuba diving
- bill gates on malaria and teaching
- 2-3/x/09
- plastic
- Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech
- 7 - I can't help thinking of the trenchcoat, pony tail dude with a huge keyboard on his arm that I bumped into at E3 in about 2000, I hope he's doing something positive these days in addition to virtually bitch-slapping MMORPG friends and enemies. Maybe he already has a getup like this one =P
- David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
- 7 - Cool tech. I hope it makes it through a few more generations without dying
- Caleb Chung: Come play with Pleo the dinosaur
- Very cool - as an invention minded person, and also an adult kid, Pleo looks very cool. I would have bought it right after watching the talk, but the price is just a bit high still
- Evan Williams: How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses
- 8 - Accidental discovery is one of the best ways to innovate. Especially if it is simple. I've gotta start getting my ideas implemented. I have tons of ideas which could have way bigger impact on the world than twitter.
- Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life
- 9.5 - the kind of stuff I was excited about in college (still am I suppose, although I think software is enough these days).
- Crazy that it might be possible for life to exist in a vacuum! Real Jurassic Park tech. Also very cool to be able to synthesize fuel. He's thinking to use CO2 as the source. That makes sense… I've been thinking garbage.
- Burt Rutan: Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight
- 8.5 - I like Burt's vision a lot, very cool, very practical.
- Richard Pyle: Exploring the reef's Twilight Zone
- 9 - liked this talk quite a bit. Entertaining SCUBA stories and good message on how to live life. Life is a sexually transmitted disease with 100% mortality. 2 Goals before then: "1. Survival, 2. Seeking Joy" - need to balance them.
- Louise Leakey: Digging for humanity's origins
- 6 - she is cute and interesting and her insights are nice, but talk wasn't as powerful as some others
- 3/13/09
- Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures
- 8.5 - pretty freaking surreal. Perhaps a demonstration of how engineering is artistic as well as the fact that artistic expression has value in and of itself, even if the creation has no practical value. Although he does claim to have invented a better wheel as well =)
- Robert Full: How engineers learn from evolution
- 10 - Very cool research on imitating nature's design in human technology. Nature inspired robots, adhesive, animals in lab, etc.
- Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures
- 3/16/09
- Dean Kamen: New prosthetic arm for veterans
- 7 - very short talk on a prosthetic limb - pretty cool, very pragmatic
- Alan Russell: Why can't we grow new body parts
- 7 - interesting on regenerating body parts
- Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
- 8 - Fairly interesting talk about living to be hundreds of years old. I think it's good to work on this type of research that isn't immediately practical, but people have passion about it.
- Dr. Dean Ornish: Your genes are not your fate
- 4 - very short talk, not sure why he was only 3 mins…
- Talks Dr. Dean Ornish: Healing and other natural wonders
- 8 - Very interesting topic. Natural living, yoga, and natural healing is a very good topic
- Three grams a day of fish oil, omega-3 fatty acid, can reduce risk of heart attack 50-80%
- Community, connection, love is healing - depression is very bad for health
- Not Ted, but interesting anyway: Japanese scientist unveil humanoid walking robot
- Once again, I guess I like random research. Japan has had a passion for humanoid robots for a LONG time, and they are making real progress over the years. It's cool to see.
- Dean Kamen: New prosthetic arm for veterans
- 3/17/09
- Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
- 9 - unexpectedly fascinating talk on mushrooms. Interesting view that matter begets life… Would like to see more examples of that. The live / dead divide seems pretty solid divide to me.
- Fungi can use radiation for energy - and all kinds of other amazing stuff - perhaps even generating fuel
- 9 - unexpectedly fascinating talk on mushrooms. Interesting view that matter begets life… Would like to see more examples of that. The live / dead divide seems pretty solid divide to me.
- Richard Preston: Climbing the world's biggest trees
- 6.5 - I like the finding a new way to love his kids by climbing trees together
- Robert Ballard: Exploring the ocean's hidden worlds
- 8 - Accidental discoveries are pretty cool - exploring the oceans is a really good idea. Ted audiences often clap at strange moments. Perhaps it cause they are so giddy at the atmosphere there
- Carolyn Porco: Fly me to the moons of Saturn
- 7 - interesting, but not good followup to talk on how we should explore ocean, not space.
- Extraterrestrial life in our solar system would be way cool to find
- Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
- 3/18/09
- Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)
- 10 - Loved this talk. Dan seems like he's been through a lot and has a great sense of humor about life. His approach to understanding people in a rational manner is also very refreshing, and amazingly rare
- Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)
- 3/22/09
- Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet and funny -- an evolutionary riddle
- 9 - Besides the first couple minutes of gibberish, he describes in a very concise way how I think of pretty much all natural behavior. I think I got what he means on why things are funny. It's 'cause they don't fit reality, so we can rule them out as not making sense. So that means they are unlikely to be true. For our minds to practice this type of reasoning deserves a reward because it gives us a much better chance of survival when it's essential to make these types of determinations very quickly. So perhaps in order for robots to get smarter, maybe we should teach them this type of reasoning. Error checks on their sensors. It's a very tough problem to think of programming. Perhaps it's a genetic algorithm that allows us to be so good at parsing reality.
- 4/14/2012: Another thought on humor is that it may be useful for creativity: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/13/john-cleese-on-how-to-be-creat.html
- Jonathan Haidt: The real difference between liberals and conservatives
- 10 - Awesome talk. I am liberal by nature, but this definitely explains why I don't consider myself a "true liberal". How would I describe myself if I'm not liberal or conservative? Two potential candidates at the moment: Pragmatist or Extreme Centrist.
- Interesting to hear how Eastern religions might deal with this a bit better than Western religions. However, being in Thailand (one of the most buddhist countries in the world) during a time when protestors took over the international airport, I can validate it's not infailable =)
- Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet and funny -- an evolutionary riddle
- 3/24/09
- Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data
- 8 - Extremely pragmatic talk on "Linked Data". He's right too. Making data available on the web will be a big deal. Not as flashy as other talks, but still nice to hear about.
- Jeff Bezos: After the gold rush, there's innovation ahead
- 8 - Another talk that is less flashy than some. I really like how Jeff thinks. Amazon is one of the top 10 software development organizations in the world for sure. I agree that we are "early" in the changes that the inet will eventually make.
- Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame
- 9 - Nice upbeat and extremely grounded talk about how to survive peak oil as a country. I hope that Barack is listening
- @see oilendgame.com
- Cameron Sinclair: TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world
- 10 - Cameron is amazing. Definitely has a knack for making things happen - instead of just talking about it. Makes you want to donate to the cause, because you trust he'll do a lot with the money.
- @see architecture for humanity
- Frank Gehry: Nice building. Then what?
- 7 - Frank Gehry is an amazing architect, cool to get a view into his personality a bit
- Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data
- 5/24/09
- Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
- 9 - Haha - interesting in a naughty sort of way. Mary's enthusiasm for the topic, in a scientific sort of way, is cute
- Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
- 5/28/09
- Michelle Obama's plea for education
- 4 - Hate to have a bad review for 1st lady, but I was a little disappointed… Not bad, but unfortunately wouldn't be interesting if her last name wasn't Obama. I am passionate about education, and I didn't feel she hit any very interesting points. Of course, her angle was that women need to be educated - which doesn't speak to me that much. I'm pro-women education and in-education, but she didn't touch me - not sure if female audience would be impressed… Perhaps it's inspirational for young women =)
- Michelle Obama's plea for education
- 5/29/09
- Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address
- 7 - not bad. Once again, I have a feeling it speaks to women more directly. Cliches maybe play really big with women? Not only women for sure, but I'm not impressed with tons of cliches. I did enjoy her personal anecdotes though
- Harness your power to your passion and you will achieve success
- Success = Money and Meaning
- Ask every failure, "What is this here to teach me?"
- Service leads to fulfillment
- Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address
- 6/5/09
- Carl Honore praises slowness
- 6 - he's got a point. It's probably a good idea to practice being slow sometimes. Ironically, even in order to get things (or just certain things?) done faster.
- Martin Rees asks: Is this our final century?
- 7 - I liked it. Interesting angle on our current cosmic place in the universe
- David Deutsch on our place in the cosmos
- 7 - fun scifi-ish talk =)
- Karen Armstrong makes her TED Prize wish: the Charter for Compassion
- 7 - interesting… ex-Nun who wants to create more compassion / peace-making in the world
- "Religion is about changing behavior". I agree. Religion is so successful because it serves an important purpose for the individual and/or society.
- "Religion has been hijacked". True, I suppose… Not sure if there was a time when it ever wasn't. But sure, perhaps less than now.
- Carl Honore praises slowness
- 6/7/09
- Bob Thurman says we can be Buddhas
- 7 - I find Buddhism pretty interesting. And global consciousness is very real to me.
- Compassion as the realization that we are all the same…
- Bob Thurman seems like a pretty interesting dude as well
- A.J. Jacobs' year of living biblically
- 7 - haha - funny guy. Moral: "Thou shalt not take the bible literally".
- concept: Change your behavior in order to change your mind. Ex: become more compassionate by doing compassionate things
- give thanks for the things that go right
- He's now a "reverent agnostic" instead of "agnostic". Interesting - sorta similar to "empathetic agnostic"
- "Thou shall not disregard the irrational" - if they aren't hurting anything - interesting…
- Bob Thurman says we can be Buddhas
- 6/9/09
- Julia Sweeney on letting go of God
- 6 - Entertaining / Comedic Theological discussion
- Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York
- 4 - not bad… somehow I wanted to like it more than I did - didn't quite capture me
- Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle design
- 6 - Just a three minute teaser - motorcycle looks cool
- Yves Behar on designing objects that tell stories
- 8 - pretty cool and pragmatic talk on doing good design
- "Design is never done" - 110% agree - even more so for software!
- 8 - pretty cool and pragmatic talk on doing good design
- Ross Lovegrove shares organic designs
- 8 - good talk - love his energy/enthusiasm. Captain Organic
- Steven Pinker on language and thought
- 7 - pretty interesting talk on language, but probably not very practical to non-lingusts
- Julia Sweeney on letting go of God
- 10/11/09
- Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces"
- 5 - manspaces are interesting… I should think about doing something like that… with Bonzai, computers, TV, nice recliner, books, a fountain… hmm….
- David Macaulay's Rome Antics
- 5 - interesting - nice and artsy and kinda scattered thoughts and drawings
- Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces"
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- Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian
- 7 - James sent to me - pretty good points
- Graham Hill: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian
- 4/14/2011
- Caroline Casey - Looking past limits - on disability (she has been legally blind since birth, but her parents didn't tell her)
- 7 - interesting: "you don't need to do [things] to be free, you just need to be true to yourself to be free"
- Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war - Lakota - Give back the black hills.
- 9 - pretty interesting - doesn't seem feasible to give back the black hills, but if the government really wanted to, they could do it. I think we (americans) would have to be far more evolved than we are today in order to do that though
- Carter Emmart demos a 3D atlas of the universe - I think I saw the animation once before… in New York maybe?
- 6 - our home is the universe
- Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity - complex != complicated. Visualization tools. Scoping the problem correctly (not trying to make it too simple). Simplicity often lies on the other side of complexity
- 8 - wow - 3 min talk - pretty good though
- Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery - There are millions of slaves in the world today! People are not enslaved because people want to be mean to them, people are enslaved to make a profit. definition: "24/7 forced labor under threat of violence". 27 million people today! Average price of a slave today - $90. $40billion industry - ~$1500/person/year.
- 9 - pretty intense - I wonder how he's taking action on this stuff
- Inge Missmahl brings peace to the minds of Afghanistan
- 9 - bringing peace, patient by psychiatric patient to Afghanistan
- Asher Hasan's message of peace from Pakistan
- 8 - true that Pakistanis should be seen as people
- Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery
- 8 - very emotional
- Jesse Schell: When games invade real life
- facebook gaming knocked us on our ass
- iphone is digital swiss army knife - pocket exception of convergence - otherwise technologies diverge
- 7.5 - haha - funny vision of pervasive gaming / economic tie ins
- Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?
- 8 - good view of statistics
- Hans Rosling's new insights on poverty
- 8 - I like Hans a lot: "The seemingly impossible is possible"
- Caroline Casey - Looking past limits - on disability (she has been legally blind since birth, but her parents didn't tell her)
- 6/19/2011
- Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice
- 8 - Very short - amazing video of ice berg "rolling"
- Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken
- 7 - real life jurasic park - nice dry humor
- Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice
- 7/3/2011
- Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days
- 8 - Nice idea - reminds me of Donovan
- Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself
- 7 - not sure I agree with this - if you do it in the right way, then there's the opposite effect
- Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet
- 9 - ability to delay gratification - self-discipline - is secret to success
- Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
- 8 - squatter cities - interesting insight into something I haven't been exposed to much
- Stewart Brand on squatter cities
- 8 - interesting - 3 mins talk on why squatter cities and why good
- Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!
- 7 - pretty far out - grow houses - pleaching - meat house!
- Birke Baehr: What's wrong with our food system
- 10 - wow - amazing talk from an 11 year old! : Think Local, Choose Organic, Know your farmer, Know your food
- Peter Ward on Earth's mass extinctions
- 8 - interesting - not sure if I believe all of it, but some seems reasonable
- Nathan Wolfe's jungle search for viruses
- 7 - interesting, but not very moving - and I'm not sure that bush meat is really that BIG of a problem
- Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days
- 3/8/2012
- Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government
- 8 - Pretty cool - using tech in gov't. Interesting point on software… the dev speed she's talking about it due to an interesting synergy between deciding what to do and how to do it - Where the person deciding both of those is the same person - and making it very simple. And also the work on it done after MVP is achieved isn't counted.
- Boston citizen connect - pretty cool
- Nice call to action "make bureaucracy sexy"
- 8 - Pretty cool - using tech in gov't. Interesting point on software… the dev speed she's talking about it due to an interesting synergy between deciding what to do and how to do it - Where the person deciding both of those is the same person - and making it very simple. And also the work on it done after MVP is achieved isn't counted.
- Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering
- 8 - interesting topic… genetic enhancement of animals, including humans. Kinda scary how he presents it
- Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library
- 7 - universal access to all knowledge is within our grasp.
- sounds like this is good work. I can't get over scanning books unless it's OCR, but then again, I guess if the analog scan is available, you can OCR it anytime.
- Interesting - archive.org and wayback machine - definitely a good resource there
- David Carson on design + discovery
- 6 - kinda fun design stuff - nice message at end: What's the definition of a good job? A: Something you'd do even if it wasn't just for money. (and if that's not what you have, what are you doing? you are going to be dead a really long time)
- Susan Cain: The power of introverts
- 7 - quite interesting talk on introverts… guess I'm something like an ambivert, but probably more introvert most of the time
- Simon Lewis: Don't take consciousness for granted
- 7 - Car accident survivor - over a month in level 3 coma. He claims that brain is a quantum computer… he experienced everything at the same time while in his coma. Pretty amazing story - somewhat of an example of getting good health care (he also seemed to have some complaints about it too, but also very thankful for sure) I wonder how he paid for all his care?
- Stefan Sagmeister on what he has learned
- 8 - interesting art - great quotes - I like it.
- Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
- 8 - good way to summarize a thought I had a long time ago that twitter could replace traditional news
- Daniel Pauly: The ocean's shifting baseline
- 7 - Good conservationist message - not too much of a call to action, but maybe shift in mental state…
- Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government
- 3/19/2012
- Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod
- 10 - illustrates how ludicrous the music industry's claims of lost revenue and jobs to piracy are
- Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity
- didn't finish watching
- Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod
- 3/26/2012
- Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy
- 8 - entertaining speaker - nice dry sense of humor - topic I find interesting
- There's no battery tech to save solar energy for overnight use
- His giant batteries don't seem too bad, but I don't know about the environmental impact. Maybe it's not that bad - and the storage would help
- What about flywheels? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/flywheel.html
- Jer Thorp: Make data more human
- 8 - nice presentation - nice visualizations - bringing raw data into a human context
- Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy
- 3/27/2012
- Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone
- 9+ - geeky girl presenter - then director of DARPA - amazing hummingbird RC drone - pretty amazing 21st century fabrication stuff - nano tech - controlling robots with thought alone - foldit gamers solving 3d structure key to aids research. pro-nerd message
- Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone
- 4/3/2012
- Rick Falkvinge: I am a pirate
- 10 - tweet: I'm not a fan of pirates, even the @JohnyDep-type, but I've made an exception for my new favorite politician @Falkvinge https://twitter.com/#!/akasek/status/187425328170405888
- Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea
- 10 - really good breakdown of SOPA, PIPA and why they are not ok
- Rick Falkvinge: I am a pirate
- 4/14/2012
- Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
- 8 - Pretty interesting talk - not the most advanced I've heard though
- Lying is a cooperative act
- Qualifying / formal language
- More tips…
- Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception
- 9 - Very interesting - understanding how our brains work
- We like to believe… follow patterns / associations
- pigeons will make up complicated patterns to follow even if there is no pattern
- Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart
- 10 - impressive - pretty good story
- Stuart Brown says play is more than fun
- 9 - really interesting research on the value of play
- Gever Tulley 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
- 7 - not bad - I do agree that it's easy to shelter kids too much
- AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on science with squishy circuits
- 7 - looks like fun - playdoh circuits =)
- Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
- 9 - Math in education and real life looks very different
- Math does not equal calculating - computers can calculate, but people must do other 3 steps
- 9 - Math in education and real life looks very different
- Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
- 4/19/2012
- Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex
- 10 - recommended by Ian and I agree whole heatedly. Calculating solutions based on understanding the complete system doesn't make much sense anymore. Trial and Error is essential if not always intuitive. I want to see schools admit that even many simple problems don't have answers. I also want to see politicians campaign on the platform of trial and error
- Bill Ford: A future beyond traffic gridlock
- 7 - we need to fight global gridlock. Good idea - but not much presented to back the claim of a call to action
- Stewart Brand on the Long Now
- 7 - I think it's pretty interesting, but somewhat abstract. Most people wouldn't be very excited about it I think - probably more excited that a bunch of celebrities are interested in it than in the actual project
- Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex
- 4/23/2012
- Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China
- 8 - interesting to have an insight into China - they seem pretty relate-able to me. not too communist these days. More like Chicago circa 1900 in The Jungle - a populous just awaking to their power over their own living conditions
- Isabel Allende tells tales of passion
- 7 - Very pro-women talk. I think it's great to empower women in places where they are dominated by men; However, that no longer seems like the case to me in the US. My grandma doesn't have as much confidence as she should. She often belittles her own contributions to the world. I don't see this trend in the women of my generation and younger. I feel that they are often just as likely to utilize their natural advantages as men are. Some people suggest women would run the world much better than men, but I'm not sure that is true. I bet "power corrupts" applies just as much to women as it does to men. I like the idea of balance. If you can point out one gender, one race, one segment with significantly more control than another, that might indicate a problem - because it's an imbalance.
- Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China
- 4/25/2012
- Keynote - Paul Fenwick
- 9 - Not actually TED, but a TED worthy talk. Lots of good insights and info on how our brain is tricked all the time
- Just how small is an atom?
- 7 - TED ED - animated video - not too bad, but not very TED-ish it seems to me
- Keynote - Paul Fenwick
- 5/12/2012
- Amory Lovins: A 50-year plan for energy
- 7 - Eliminate addiction to oil and coal - use renewable energy. Pretty interesting… Kinda a vision on what is likely to happen between now and 2050 in the energy market. More informative than any call to action - for end consumers anyway - although he does he with "buy my book to see what you can do"
- Amory Lovins: A 50-year plan for energy
- 5/28/2012
- Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome
- 10 - really enjoyed this talk - summarizes my opinion on how one should live their life
- Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers
- we're giving up privacy for inet. Collusion firefox plugin
- Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome
- 10/17/2012
- Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included
- 10 - great presentation - science as play instead of some sort of pursuit of intellectual superiority is so much closer to reality. Beau Lotto's LottoLab sounds interesting too.
- Arthur Benjamin: Teach statistics before calculus!
- 6 - Confused me a little bit on what he wants, but I agree that statistics should be taught better/more
- Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education
- 10 - coursera - https://www.coursera.org/ - wow, awesome online education site
- Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included
- 3/24/2013
- 9 - Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
- http://solesandsomes.wikispaces.com/A+bit+about+SOLE+%26+SOME
- Schools as we know them are obsolete - Nice summary on the current situation
- It's not about making learning happen, it's about letting learning happen
- encouragement and wonder…
- 9 - Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
- 4/17/2013
- Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
- top 5 regrets of the dying
- wish I hadn't worked so hard
- wish I had stayed in touch with friends
- wish I'd let myself be happier
- wish I'd had courage to express true self
- wish I'd lived a life true to my dreams
- 8+ - not bad, I think she's right
- top 5 regrets of the dying
- Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
- 1/27/2014
- Arthur Benjamin: The magic of fibonacci numbers
- 7 - kinda fun - not lots of content, but good presentation - and I like fibonacci numbers too =)
- Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance
- 9 - Science: like looking for a black cat in a dark room - and maybe there is no cat
- Good explanation of why science is more about ignorance than knowledge
- 9 - Science: like looking for a black cat in a dark room - and maybe there is no cat
- Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers
- 8 - funny, informative math talk
- Arthur Benjamin: The magic of fibonacci numbers
- 2/17/2014
- Anant Agarwal: Why massive open online courses (still) matter
- 8 - EDX - good talk, but not great
- Anant Agarwal: Why massive open online courses (still) matter
- 2/23/2014
- Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?
- 10 - interesting thoughts and info on humans sexual behavior/history. Humans have sex 1000 times per child born on average. Bonobos and Chimps have similar ratios, but they don't do pair bonding - they have sex with many partners. Bonobos and chimps also have high percentages of the menstrual cycle when women will have sex. Some societies of humans also have sex with many partners. He mentioned some cultures that believe the kids are made completely of semen. So the mother sleeps with many men in order to get enough semen to make a kid. He also mentioned that humans use sex primarily for societal bonding and secondarily for reproduction. Interesting.
- Dong Woo Jang: The art of bow making
- 9 - good talk from 15 year old korean high school kid - korean school is too much pressure, so he makes bows
- Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?
- 5/15/2014
- Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life
- 9 - suicide is terrible
- warning signs: hopelessness, helplessness, social-withdrawl, loss of interest in life
- Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life
- older
todo:
* Rodrigo Canales: The deadly genius of drug cartels
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