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Started by LMNO, March 01, 2013, 06:50:11 PM

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navkat

#15
March 05, 2013, 11:48:18 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on March 05, 2013, 08:49:00 PM
YW! I'm kind of a TED junkie. :)

Totally. Who doesn't love an organization whose message seems to be "There's still hope. We can fix it with SCIENCE."

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March 06, 2013, 12:34:51 AM
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#17
March 06, 2013, 08:18:47 PM
There's an amusing one on DRM and copyright law. If I recall correctly the title was something like "The 8 billion dollar Ipod"

Can't say I've bothered much further than that. Will have a look over the suggestions, appreciated all.

By all, I mean nigel really.
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March 06, 2013, 09:17:17 PM
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

navkat

#19
March 06, 2013, 09:19:23 PM
I love the ones by ZeFrank.

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#20
March 06, 2013, 10:10:45 PM
I just got turned on to this one on positive psychology: http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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#21
March 07, 2013, 10:03:13 AM
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#22
March 07, 2013, 03:12:52 PM
Ok, watched the Amanda Palmer one and...


Nope.  Still biased against her.  I feel it's gimmicky (both her approach and delivery), and her ideas aren't scalable to the industry at large.

She was right about how it does feel "fair" when two people exchange things out of friendship, though. 

navkat

#23
March 07, 2013, 06:05:25 PM
I kinda feel like this forum is a breeding ground for TED-like ideas...if we could all stop screeching long enough to hug each other. :)

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#24
March 07, 2013, 07:39:36 PM
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Sano

#25
March 08, 2013, 12:41:33 PM
Quote from: navkat: navkat of...navkat! on March 06, 2013, 09:19:23 PM
I love the ones by ZeFrank.

ZeFrank does TED talks? Wow, I'll have to look into these.
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#26
March 10, 2013, 01:48:14 AM
I just discovered this one, about the importance of play: http://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#27
March 10, 2013, 04:46:40 AM
An incredible resuscitation of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis that just about has me convinced, even though I tend toward the perspective that culture influences language more strongly than language influences culture: http://www.ted.com/talks/keith_chen_could_your_language_affect_your_ability_to_save_money.html
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Telarus

#28
March 12, 2013, 08:00:51 AM
I really like this one. It turned what was otherwise just math in my 3d programs when I'm lighting a 3d scene into..... something I could almost physically understand (kinetically process, but that's my weird synesthesia).

Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second.html
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#29
March 12, 2013, 08:36:26 AM
Quote from: Telarus on March 12, 2013, 08:00:51 AM
I really like this one. It turned what was otherwise just math in my 3d programs when I'm lighting a 3d scene into..... something I could almost physically understand (kinetically process, but that's my weird synesthesia).

Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second.html

I'm gonna be pissed when The Corporations start making me sign EULAs permitting their use of that to look at the shit inside my house and purse.
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