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Almost thought it was a dube of

http://www.videosift.com/video/Do-Schools-Today-Kill-Creativity-Sir-Ken-Robinson-TED

Had to go find it though

>> ^Kreegath:
Isn't it a bit unfair to blame the school for not being able to pick up on Paul McCartney's musical talent as a kid in a class of roundabout 30 students

His argument seems to be that this status quo that you mention is a problem. That we don't have a mechanism for developing human potential. I don't think he is attacking the tpeople working at the schools, more the conditions which don't allow the teacher to find or develop talent.

Now at the risk of getting my head chopped off I would like to note that I would not consider the early Beatles to be clearly musical geniuses. And I would go farther and argue that McCartney is not exceptionally musically talented.

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ahh memories. the announcer did in fact have David Robinson's balls in his mouth. the half time show was priceless. for some reason this frog would hope across the court, wasn't even a mascot.

I can never, ever remember the best ones when quizzed like this. Same goes for best movies etc.

Ones I have liked of late are (in no order):
The Dark Tower series: Stephen King
The Book Thief: Marcus Zusak
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Dave Eggers (Currently reading another of his books actually)
The Mars Trilogy: Kim Stanley Robinson
LOTR: Tolkien
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
Many Discworld novels: Terry Pratchett
Dune: Frank Herbert
The Dressmaker: Rosalie Ham (An Australian gothic novel, just brilliant, I'd love to see this made into a film)
2010: Arthur C Clarke (Yeah, I like it better than 2001, sue me)


But inevitably someone will mention some book and I'll go 'AAAH, yeah, LOVED that one'!... so yeah, there are many others that I'm sure should be here, and probably in place of others here... (I just scrolled up and added some that others had put, because I'd forgotten them)...

Catch 22 : I just wanted to say that for all the praise that this book gets, I couldn't get through it. He made his points, set up his things, and then seemed to repeat the same damn jokes/observations over and over and over again to the point where I just stopped reading it... sorry, but it bored me. Good start, lost me soon after.

Thanks for the notice. Their old player was pretty bad, and this new one is kind of meh. Best to change them with the youtube/google versions.

Fav TED talk(s)?

David Deutsch
http://documentaries.videosift.com/video/Physicist-David-Deutsch-Delightful-Talk-of-the-Universe
and Sir Ken Robinson
http://www.videosift.com/video/Do-Schools-Today-Kill-Creativity-Sir-Ken-Robinson-TED

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Currently reading "The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson," for a Women's History class. It's actually really interesting. This woman single-handedly started the bus boycott after hearing about the Rosa Parks incident. She and two of her students (she was a professor at the university there) printed up thousands of brochures announcing a one-day boycott and passed them out to every black person in Montgomery. Everybody thinks Dr. King was behind it all - he wasn't. He ended up being elected the leader of the movement, but he was very much against starting it. He also, during his "I Have A Dream" speech, barred women from the stage.

Learn new things every day. I have a paper due on it on Wednesday, actually. I might post it here for comments.

Frank Robinson went on to earn a PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan. Cool.

This is actually from "No Leave, No Love", made in 1946: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038779/

The piano player is Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0732630/

I am very shocked that this was not in the top 15. Every kid dreams about a sweet tree house like the Swiss Family Robinsons. This was cool. I am going to go get started on my own.

Why does MSNBC still employ this assole?

No one likes him. Keith regularly gives him the verbal smackdown. Give Eugene Robinson a show now that Maddow finally got one!

One Thousand Years
The 100 People Who Made The Millennium
What, no Babe Ruth? How, ask you, could a list of millennium's most important people not include the Sultan of Swat? Plenty of other monarchs failed to make the lineup as well. To get on this team, a person had to change more than just a corner of the world-he or she had to divert the great stream of human history, alter our perceptions perceptibly. A runner edged out Ruth (and Jackie Robinson) by setting a new standard for any owner on two legs. You'll find his name at No. 92 on the following list, which ranks the honorees by importance. Many names will be familiar from the events section, but not all. A few-Watt, Koch, Gutenberg-appear there but not here. Some of history's paramount figures are remembered more for a single accomplishment (such as ushering in the age of print) than for the force of their personalities. Though the actions of the individuals who made the list affected all kinds of people, they are an overwhelmingly male, pale bunch. All but 17 are of European extraction; only ten are women. This reflects not the biases of LIFE's editors and expert advisers but the sociopolitical realities of the past thousand years. For most of that time, as Virginia Woolf noted, women have served largely as "looking-glasses...reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Likewise, the millennium's most conspicuous historical movement has been the rise of the West-which means Westerners often borrowing ideas and technology from other peoples, have done a disproportionate amount of global moving and shaking. The next millennium's list of planet-rattlers promises to look strikingly different.
LIFE magazine
http://www.tostepharmd.net/hissoc/top100people.html
I included this in the discussion because I consider it to both vital and relevant. Also, it's from a kick ass book(The 100 Most Important Events & People of the Past 1,000 Years), one of my favorites.
I also feel this is relevant to the discussion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dichotomy