TED Talks

[Kai]

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

I love this one, I linked it to a bunch of people when I first watched it.

My all time favorite TED talk though, is this one http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html Woo!! Mushrooms Can Save The World!! I'm a sucker for weird.

EMERGENCE! also MYCELIUM.

Also, GIANT PREHISTORIC MUSHROOMS.

[Bruno]

Earth's mass extinctions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lYN_lXU9PA&feature=channel

[Bruno]

Oh. My. God.

I haven't seen this guy in years, back when he was on ZDTV.

Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk&feature=channel

[Kai]

Oh. My. God.

I haven't seen this guy in years, back when he was on ZDTV.

Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk&feature=channel

That guy is fucking awesome. Hes got the einstein hair and everything. If I had an agile mind I could only wish I had the sort of energy he does.

[Bruno]

Oh. My. God.

I haven't seen this guy in years, back when he was on ZDTV.

Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk&feature=channel

That guy is fucking awesome. Hes got the einstein hair and everything. If I had an agile mind I could only wish I had the sort of energy he does.

Shit yes! Anybody who didn't watch ZDTV back in the mid to late 90's really missed out. Clifford Stoll is a good example of the kind of foreward thinking you could find on that channel back in the day. Compare that to G4/TechTV of today, which is what ZDTV became.

It still makes me to think what they done to my channel. 

It was a slow painful process too, didn't happen overnight. It took them a few years to go from insightful brilliance to mindless crap.

[Iason Ouabache]

Daniel Dennett on the design of religion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTepA-WV_oE

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh. My. God.

I haven't seen this guy in years, back when he was on ZDTV.

Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk&feature=channel

I enjoyed his books in the 90's.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, apparently, I've been enjoying his Klein bottles for several years, without ever once looking at the name of the guy who makes them. What the fuck.

http://www.kleinbottle.com/

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Reviving this thread, I ended up watching three or four different TEDs today from various sources.  They are cool.

[Bruno]

Oh. My. God.

I haven't seen this guy in years, back when he was on ZDTV.

Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk&feature=channel

I enjoyed his books in the 90's.

If I ever find the time, I have got to read them. He really seems to understand WTF is going on

[BADGE OF HONOR]

This one gave me a lot of thinking.  I know my life has been distinctly lacking in fun lately.

[Kai]

This one gave me a lot of thinking.  I know my life has been distinctly lacking in fun lately.

When the presenter started talking about the opposite of play being depression, not work, and talking about play deprivation caused atrophy, I started crying.

I wonder when was  the last time I've really played.

[Aufenthatt]

I like that guy.

When I grow up I want to be too busy doing cartwheels to be just like him.

[LMNO]

This one gave me a lot of thinking.  I know my life has been distinctly lacking in fun lately.

When the presenter started talking about the opposite of play being depression, not work, and talking about play deprivation caused atrophy, I started crying.

I wonder when was  the last time I've really played.

Messing about with bugs counts as play.  Just look at a 7-year-old on the edge of a pond.

[Kai]

This one gave me a lot of thinking.  I know my life has been distinctly lacking in fun lately.

When the presenter started talking about the opposite of play being depression, not work, and talking about play deprivation caused atrophy, I started crying.

I wonder when was  the last time I've really played.

Messing about with bugs counts as play.  Just look at a 7-year-old on the edge of a pond.

I haven't been messing around with bugs though. Messing around with bugs is fun. I've been sitting either on the computer or at the scope doing repetitive actions with very little creativity involved. There's very little messing about involved, maybe none at all.