TED Talks

[andrew_in_bk]

Hodgmen and Tom are tweeting about the TED talks a lot. Here's a good one:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92

[A.M. Thomas]

Here are a few of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU
How it feels to have a stroke
[You must see this!]
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsgvhP07BC8
Bill Gates: How I'm trying to change the world now
[This one was published ~two hours ago.]
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MhV5Rn63M
Jennifer 8. Lee: Who was General Tso?
Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two cultures have (so tastily) combined to form a new cuisine.


The entire series is incredible, though.  Post the best ones you find from here!

[JamesU]

My roommate and fellow FOT's dad speaks at these things. Here he is talking about sea creatures. The camo octopus at the very end is pretty wild.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_gallo_shows_underwater_astonishments.html

[A.M. Thomas]

Hodgmen and Tom are tweeting about the TED talks a lot. Here's a good one:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92

This is one of my favorites too.  Here is Hans' updated TED talk from one year after the original.  It's a bit more honest and has one of the best endings to any speech ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKbO6O3O3M

[iAmBaronVonTito]

How it feels to have a stroke
[You must see this!]
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

i saw this last year and i enjoyed it.  sometimes her speech pattern made me uncomfortable, but all in all, i really liked it.

[emma]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaSF1gPBKrA[/youtube]

I love this one.

[Keith Whitener]

I like this TED video, but it's not from this year:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/eve_ensler_on_happiness_in_body_and_soul.html

It's interesting that there's this sense that we shouldn't share our personal feelings and stories either because it's inappropriate or because others don't care, but this is inaccurate. As persons we are very much constituted by our experiences with others. We also need others. Humans are, in the end, social animals. And it is often in our greatest times of need that others come to our rescue and it is with others, as the slogan "the personal is political" suggests, that we shall transcend our obstacles.

[A.M. Thomas]

I like this TED video, but it's not from this year:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/eve_ensler_on_happiness_in_body_and_soul.html

It's interesting that there's this sense that we shouldn't share our personal feelings and stories either because it's inappropriate or because others don't care, but this is inaccurate. As persons we are very much constituted by our experiences with others. We also need others. Humans are, in the end, social animals. And it is often in our greatest times of need that others come to our rescue and it is with others, as the slogan "the personal is political" suggests, that we shall transcend our obstacles.

Lady loves the word "vagina."

[dave from knoxville]

I like this TED video, but it's not from this year:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/eve_ensler_on_happiness_in_body_and_soul.html

It's interesting that there's this sense that we shouldn't share our personal feelings and stories either because it's inappropriate or because others don't care, but this is inaccurate. As persons we are very much constituted by our experiences with others. We also need others. Humans are, in the end, social animals. And it is often in our greatest times of need that others come to our rescue and it is with others, as the slogan "the personal is political" suggests, that we shall transcend our obstacles.

Lady loves the word "vagina."

Name three ladies who don't!

[cutout]

Anita Bryant, Marilyn Quayle, Dame Judi Dench.

[fonpr]

Here are a few of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU
How it feels to have a stroke
[You must see this!]
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.


That was wonderful A.M..  I don't know if you heard about the brain imaging studies and the affects of meditation on the brain's activities but this lecture ties in quite well.  I read this book a few years ago: Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind (Paperback)
by V.S. Ramachandran (Author), Sandra Blakeslee (Author)   It has several great examples of left/right brain competition. 

Thanks for posting this.  Now I'm off to the next one.

Mucho grassyazzz
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Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind (Paperback)
by V.S. Ramachandran (Author), Sandra Blakeslee (Author)

[Pat K]

From the thread title, I was hoping this thread was going to be about Ted Leo writing some kind of tell-all book and airing all the TLRX dirty laundry, a la "The Dirt".