TED; because it's better than facebook

[Stijn]

Thank you so much for this site,- already spent a whole evening watching. The one with Aimee Mullins is amazing.

Currently;

http://www.ted.com/playlists/82/are_we_alone_in_the_universe.html

[bryantyj]

[drizzly]

stephen hawking speaking for ted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjBIsp8mS-c

[ambrosian]

youtube link

Saw this recently, although it's Joe Rogan (MUH SCIENTOLOGY CULT ) it was interesting to hear about the duress at least some of the speakers are under. The amount of money you have to pay for membership is ridic, is that really the price of education/information? OTOH, correct me if I'm wrong, most if not all of the talks are available for free online, so I suppose it could be considered a donation as such.

Anyway,

Great talk by a great linguist, for anyone interested in language.

[ngoa]

some really interesting stuff.
do you have any other suggestions?

[josecc]

some really interesting stuff.
do you have any other suggestions?

I am using Network Theory in my PhD thesis, so I find the following clip interesting:

http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_christakis_how_social_networks_predict_epidemics.html

[ngoa]

yeah its almost scary how precisely you can predict certain movements in society just by collecting data from social networks.

here is a good documentary that goes into the history of the internet and the contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution.
usa:

http://www.fandor.com/films/the_net

outside usa in low quality (movie aired on the channel arte in germany):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doQAwLb-DEE

[Catfood]

Curator of the Mcqueen show at the MET:

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

[interest1]

bumpity bump

Was going to drop in Technology, but this thread is so underserved as it is.

Thought this was nothing short of amazing.

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watch the Ted Talk

[LelandJ]

Joe couldn't figure out what 2,000 x $8,000 was and his assistant also had to use a calculator to find out.

Is TED really making $16M per speaker and paying the speaker nothing?

[nvsnli]

Fuckin TED, LOL.

One of the most pretentious organisations around.
I get braincancer when i hear/read people raving about how great TED is.

[mrbeuys]

Fuckin TED, LOL.

One of the most pretentious organisations around.
I get braincancer when i hear/read people raving about how great TED is.

Show me something better in the same space.

[interest1]

What, ask a person to actually contribute something intelligent to a thread instead of walking in for the sole purpose of taking a shit on the floor? Come now.

Pusti ga u kurac

[KNZ]

I also liked the "power of introverts" video.

Videos i watched and liked are these:
(About mental health)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1QoyTmeAYw
With Mark Henick

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1QoyTmeAYw
With Ruby Wax

EDIT:
This video popped in my head couple seconds later
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o
With Brene Brown

[interest1]

A nice place to start.

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