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Best TED talk I've seen in years!

Well, he does sum up some of the other Ted Talks out there.
Learn to decipher good from bad.
Just because it's a Ted Talk, doesn't mean it has something to say!

I think the public thing is just resignation. While traveling on the rail link from San Fran to LA (I'm from Aus), I watched what I presumed to be a crack deal go down right outside the train on a relatively clean looking platform, 2 black guys. They just don't care if they get busted or whatever because at the end of the day, it means very little to them. Nothing to lose, so why care?

Whites, on average, have a lot more to lose, so they work harder to keep their activities hidden. Doesn't hurt that you are less likely to get stopped and searched as a white drug dealer than you are as a black law abiding citizen.

; )

As an aside, look up Dr. Carl Hart's TED talk on drugs being a socio-economic problem and punishment meted out for crack (the drug of choice for poor communities) being orders of magnitude higher than the punishment for selling/buying/possession of powder cocaine (used by predominately white people...). Despite addictiveness and effect being close to equal when ingested in the same method.

ah,then i misunderstood.
you should give this guy a listen.i posted related videos if you find the bioneers platform unsavory.his TED talk is especially informative and received 100 votes.

but the sift was different then.

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That was sort of what I was thinking. It might fall under the Entertainment aspect of Technology, Entertainment and Design. There are lots of TEDs though that seem to be not as... TEDy, as I generally think of a TED talk as.

Nice, but... That qualifies as a TED talk?

I just watched a short TED talk on the importance of play for children. Gaiman and Palmer and these filmmakers made something that illustrates his point perfectly.

Couldn't find it on the Sift, or I'd link it.

The TED talk was about reducing paper towel waste in *public* bathrooms. Simply encouraging you to fold one piece instead of pulling 4. Also it works, after that talk I did start folding a single piece and it's working out just fine.

I understand it was to prep the joke but stretched the truth a little far there.

Atheism 2.0 - TED talk by Alain de Botton has been added as a related post - related requested by Trancecoach on that post.

What the fuck? His little stick figures get a Ted Talk but goddamn Penny Arcade gets nothing? Fuck off.