TED talks
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Cameron Russell admits she won "a genetic lottery": she's tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don't judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her... continue reading
posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 10 months ago • 1,540 views • 9:38As a young EMT on a Jerusalem ambulance, Eli Beer realized that, stuck in brutal urban traffic, they often arrived too late to help. So he organized a group of volunteer EMTs -- many on foot -- ready to... continue reading
posted by radx 1 decade 10 months 1 week ago • 158 views • 10:45When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably somewhere in the picture. ... continue reading
posted by radx 1 decade 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,065 views • 14:28If you haven't read any of Danny's books, this might just ruin your day. Welcome to the world of anonymous warfare and autonomous robotic weapons -- with you and me on the receiving end of it. "As... continue reading
posted by radx 1 decade 11 months 3 weeks ago • 471 views • 13:20YouTube Description: For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 1 week ago • 664 views • 6:11YouTube Description: In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 1 week ago • 357 views • 10:02TED: Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for... continue reading
posted by littledragon_79 1 decade 1 year 1 month ago • 1,427 views • 18:51This video is why we have a Brain Channel!
posted by Sagemind 1 decade 2 years 12 months ago • 1,220 views • 20:16YT - "A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station ... And... continue reading
posted by Fletch 1 decade 1 year 2 months ago • 1,145 views • 16:53Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she began to... continue reading
posted by bjornenlinda 1 decade 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 713 views • 12:16Graham Hancock's TEDx talk censored by TED's science board. "I am fighting these charges from TED's Science Board which in my opinion are untrue and amount to nothing more than an ideologically driven... continue reading
posted by shagen454 1 decade 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,558 views • 18:45YouTube Description: By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and ... different. "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 2 months 4 weeks ago • 1,227 views • 12:05Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer. Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 year 3 months ago • 1,744 views • 13:48from TED website: Artist iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LBGTQ spectrum and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight... continue reading
posted by Gale Wallis (bareboards2) 1 decade 1 year 4 months ago • 834 views • 18:18(YouTube) When Sue Austin got a power chair 16 years ago, she felt a tremendous sense of freedom -- yet others looked at her as though she had lost something. In her art, she aims to convey the spirit... continue reading
posted by critical_d 1 decade 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 901 views • 9:39This is like a warm shower -- thank god for non-hysteria.
posted by Gale Wallis (bareboards2) 1 decade 1 year 4 months 4 weeks ago • 268 views • 19:48Sheena Iyengar talks about her interest in and research into choice, how we make choices, how culture affects our choices, and how we can make better choices. I highly recommend the book of the same... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 548 views • 24:08A plane crash survivor discusses life, regrets, and negative energy.
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 1 year 6 months ago • 257 views