I'm lazy...YT : In which society is it easiest to get rich? Contrary to common belief, it is not countries like the US or the UK that create the highest number of rich people per capita, but Nordic social... continue reading
posted by ravioli 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,228 views • 15:42TED talks
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TED talks.
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former greek finance minister yanis varoufakis breaks down how capitalism will slowly destroy our democracy. Have you wondered why politicians aren't what they used to be, why governments seem unable... continue reading
posted by enoch 7 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 276 views • 19:52YouTube description: eL Seed fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti to paint colorful, swirling messages of hope and peace on buildings from Tunisia to Paris. The artist and TED Fellow shares the story... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months ago • 547 views • 11:27A great knowledge flush of the current college overpricing mess. College Graduates are graduating with more debt and less skills.
posted by kingmob 8 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 770 views • 11:49This guy's an excellent story teller.
posted by RedSky 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 655 views • 18:03YouTube description: On April 3, 2016 we saw the largest data leak in history. The Panama Papers exposed rich and powerful people hiding vast amounts of money in offshore accounts. But what does it... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months ago • 481 views • 7:50Y/T: The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that... continue reading
posted by Fletch 1 decade 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 3,432 viewshttp://www.ted.com Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others -- and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, he... continue reading
posted by ZappaDanMan 1 decade 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,354 views • 13:21"Chasing your dream requires you put everything out there and deal with the consequences. When aspiring entrepreneur Jia Jiang left corporate life to build his dream company, he had no idea it also meant... continue reading
posted by ant 9 years 1 week ago • 49 views • 12:01Takes guts ... YouTube: In 1998, says Monica Lewinsky, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 7 months 1 week ago • 643 views • 22:31What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to... continue reading
posted by eric3579 9 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 70 views • 14:43Moxie's talk at Webstock in Wellington, NZ (Feb 20, 2015) "Over the past 20 years, cryptography has been transformed from a poorly understood and scarcely available regulated munition to a well developed... continue reading
posted by radx 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 597 views • 27:18clint smith makes an impassioned speech clearly defining the differences of being raised black in stark contrast to what those of privilege may experience. when people scoff at the idea of white privilege... continue reading
posted by enoch 9 years 5 months ago • 745 views • 5:13YouTube Description: A very unsexy-sounding piece of technology could mean that the police know where you go, with whom, and when: the automatic license plate reader. These cameras are innocuously placed... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 9 years 5 months ago • 566 views • 5:59YouTube Description: When Jimmy Nelson traveled to Siberia to photograph the Chukchi people, elders told him: "You cannot photograph us. You have to wait, you have to wait until you get to know us,... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 9 years 5 months ago • 292 views • 17:19YT: Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 11 months ago • 681 views • 4:05YouTube Description: Ziyah Gafić photographs everyday objects—watches, shoes, glasses. But these images are deceptively simple; the items in them were exhumed from the mass graves of the Bosnian... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 month 4 weeks ago • 236 views • 4:33How languages evolve - Alex Gendler YT: Over the course of human history, thousands of languages have developed from what was once a much smaller number. How did we end up with so many? And how do... continue reading
posted by mintbbb 1 decade 5 months ago • 603 views • 4:03Addiction 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 • 21:17