Have you ever thought about making a group playlist for TEDtalks? Might reduce the workload on you by allowing others to add to the playlist.

In reply to this comment by rbar:
Hi Notarobot. Thanks for the heads-up! Was time a made a round and searched for new ones, quite a lot I missed. They are all great. Completely in love with TED.
If you find any more, let me know!

Ciao,
Robert

In reply to this comment by notarobot:
Hi rBar.

I like TED talks a lot but you've got the playlist going strong already. Here's one I posted last week.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Andy-Hobsbawm-Do-the-green-thing-TED

FYI: http://documentaries.videosift.com/talk/TEDTalks-embeds-need-updating

Happy new year, and congrats on the shiny new star!

*promote

To inaugurate the Sustainability Channel; in honour of this being the best TEDTalk; because the Gapminder software has seen major upgrades.

>> ^aspartam:
Brian Cox is awesome. I was smitten by him ever since since he explained LHC at TED. What a well spoken young man. Kids should idolize him instead of Lil'Wayne or Whomeverisinthechartsnowadays.


Right on, here is that talk, by the way http://www.videosift.com/video/Brian-Cox-at-TEDtalks-on-the-Large-Hadron-Collider

that last psychologist, Sue Blackmore, did an excellent TEDtalk about Memes and Temes. I'm surprised at her saying she doesn't understand it, she must mean in a strictly scientific way and not what is obvious to skepticism.

>> ^deathcow:
This hippie has a dream job, now he needs a haircut.


second that on the haircut. My instincts are to say this fella is a cutie.. but I keep wondering.. cheek implants?

In any case, why is everyone so worried about this collider experiment?

there are many issues i have with this.

1) delta-wing aircraft are almost useless for passenger air travel. they're far more efficient for flying, but you can't put people anywhere but the center, since anyone over a wing would end up sideways whenever the plane banked. also, this would fly in a mild version of the parabolic flight pattern used by the vomit comet which, i believe, is rightly so called.

2) i'd imagine these craft would be kinda useless for freight, mainly because of how much helium one would need, though i could easily be wrong on that one.

3) it's probably slow. especially the first ascent to altitude. and landing it must be a lot of fun.

that's just the first couple of things i could think of. to be fair, i have no training in aviation or aerodynamics past high school physics, which was a while ago.

that all having been said, i love seeing new innovation in engineering. anyone interested in aviation should watch this TED talk by Burt Rutan on how the US govt has allowed innovation in aviation to stagnate

From the TEDTalks site: Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive

*beg for a top-notch TEDtalk.

I recently learned that another one of my sifts ,that had also been removed from the *science channel, is essentially a summary of another video on a topic, that had come under heated debate about weather the subject of the video actually qualifies as *science. I concede that that video, as a summery, is too short to hold the same kind of solid scientific explanations detailed in videos on Quantum Physics or any number of wonderful TEDtalks.

However, given that videos on the studies of Drugs on Spiders, Water Balloon Motion , and how Science leads to Murder, remain in the *science channel, I fail to see how this video, relating to mercury, or the other video regarding the topic of fluoridation of humans, both topics of dental and, it seems, mental heath, do not also deserve the same respect as other *science sifts.

my hero!
In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
I loved Brian Cox in "Rob Roy" and his Hannibal Lecktor was very subtly portrayed and a lot scarier than the later one by Anthony Hopkins.

>> ^therealblankman:
> I loved Brian Cox in "Rob Roy" and his Hannibal Lecktor was very subtly portrayed and a lot scarier than the later one by Anthony Hopkins.

don't even get me started, dude. Adaptation? handpicked by McKee to play himself?

>> ^deathcow:
Any black hole we create in a laboratory will be so small that it evaporates in nanoseconds.

absolutely! unless we're wrong, of course. in which case, we'd never even realize it anyway. much better than if we had been equally wrong about the first nuclear detonation, and torching a hole in our atmosphere.
so, yeah. i'll take that bet. light 'em up.

check out his TEDtalk too. there's a few others on happiness also

What a horrible presentation. There's a difference between agile and frenetic.

Jill Bolte Taylor gave a much better presentation at this conference and it hasn't gotten as many votes.

[BTW, I'm guessing Asperger's Syndrome - not cocaine. Or maybe both.]

ahh yes. i remember his TEDtalk on permaculture.

*howto save our soil.