Ted Koppel's interview with Nelson Mandela in 1990 on ABC News. Nelson Mandela visited the U.S. for the first time after being freed from 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa. Here is sectioned out... continue reading
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Mike Rowe the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the nature of hard work, and how its been unjustifiably... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 32 views • 20:03The Coffee Break video that started the uproar with Kurzgesagt. -Popular Science is science for the masses. The stock in trade is nifty insights and suprising facts, conclusions that amaze and astound.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 914 views • 17:49Kimberly Noble: How does income affect childhood brain development? Neuroscientist and pediatrician Kimberly Noble is leading the Baby's First Years study: the first-ever randomized study of how family... continue reading
posted by notarobot 5 years 7 months ago • 52 viewsAs America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and... continue reading
posted by Ashenkase 6 years ago • 582 views • 13:02He's given a TED talk too, https://www.ted.com/talks/andres_ruzo_the_mythical_boiling_river_of_the_amazon YouTube description: When Andrés Ruzo was a boy, his grandfather would tell him tales of... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 week ago • 2,029 views • 2:34youtube- TEDx Talks Published on Sep 7, 2017 Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is... continue reading
posted by Buck 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 119 views • 15:59YouTube description: Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes — from a childhood... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months ago • 155 views • 13:08Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink | TEDxUniversityofNevada From YouTube: War is hell, but war is also a brutal teacher. War teaches you about brotherhood, honor, humility, and leadership. In this riveting... continue reading
posted by chicchorea 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 116 views • 13:50This is so wrong
posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 947 views • 4:34This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Building strong children is easier than repairing broken adults. Why allow something to break only to try to fix... continue reading
posted by LukeForsyth455 8 years 12 months ago • 24 views • 17:43"As a grad student, Cynthia Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms. The key, she realized: training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds... continue reading
posted by ant 9 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 22 views • 14:04YT: For six months, Suki Kim worked as an English teacher at an elite school for North Korea's future leaders - while writing a book on one of the world's most repressive regimes. As she helped her students... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 133 views • 12:33YT: Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but has learned to "see" using a form of echolocation. He clicks his tongue and sends out flashes of sound that bounce off surfaces in the environment... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 7 months ago • 208 views • 13:08From YT: "In a hilarious talk capping off a day of new ideas at TEDxNewYork, professional funny person Will Stephen shows foolproof presentation skills to make you sound brilliant -- even if you are literally... continue reading
posted by blackfox42 9 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,763 views • 5:56Good talk about personal privacy, and the Internet From Brussels
posted by Vexus 9 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,783 views • 19:17Addiction is less prevalent and problematic than we have been led to believe, and drugs have been scapegoated for problems related to poverty and race. Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and... continue reading
posted by cricket 1 decade 1 month 1 week ago • 683 views • 21:17The creator of the Tree of 40 Fruits does TED talks explaining how he went about making them. slightly more info at http://www.treeof40fruit.com/
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