Does anyone watch them? Ever since I saw Sir Ken Robinson do his talk on creativity in education I've realized what an awesome resource TED talks are.
One I just watched now: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paula_scher_gets_serious.html
Paula Scher on Serious versus Solemn design and creativity.
I've seen a couple of them, but this is the only one I can specifically remember.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ob8SBXF_E
TED is pretty awesome. I usually feel intellectually enriched after most of them (but not all).
Quote from: Cainad on January 23, 2009, 06:20:32 PM
TED is pretty awesome. I usually feel intellectually enriched after most of them (but not all).
Well yeah, some of them are just bland.
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on January 23, 2009, 06:16:31 PM
I've seen a couple of them, but this is the only one I can specifically remember.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ob8SBXF_E
That was fucking bizarre.
People keep linking me to things on that site, and then I'm all like "Oh, this is awesome, I'll come back here often" and then I forget about it. Every time.
It's in my bookmarks now though. Fuck you memory.
Note to self: Watch this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7raJeMpyM0&feature=channel
Quote from: Kai on January 23, 2009, 06:27:50 PM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on January 23, 2009, 06:16:31 PM
I've seen a couple of them, but this is the only one I can specifically remember.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ob8SBXF_E
That was fucking bizarre.
How so? Other than TMBG's usual bizarreness.
Yeah, There May Be Giants is just weird.
Thanks for the Leadbeater link. Good argument for open source and amateur collaboration.
I love TED Talks but always forgets that the site exists. I think someone has linked to this one before, but it's worth linking to again:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF9G9M0cR0E
Inventions. Cool ones. Dangerous too.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Quote from: Cainad on January 28, 2009, 07:56:46 PM
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Best one. Srsly.
That was also the FIRST TED talk I ever saw.
My acting teacher sent us all the link to it, and mentioned it in class.
I have a sneaking suspicion that he may, in fact, be a mittens and win teacher.
Quote from: Cainad on January 28, 2009, 07:56:46 PM
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.
Quote from: Sanguine Penguin on January 28, 2009, 08:10:12 PM
Quote from: Cainad on January 28, 2009, 07:56:46 PM
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.
Earth's mass extinctions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lYN_lXU9PA&feature=channel
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
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on February 01, 2009, 04:49:16 AM
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.
Quote from: Kai on February 01, 2009, 05:10:48 AM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on February 01, 2009, 04:49:16 AM
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 :x 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.
Daniel Dennett on the design of religion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTepA-WV_oE
Quote from: Dildo_Daggins on February 01, 2009, 04:49:16 AM
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.
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/
Reviving this thread, I ended up watching three or four different TEDs today from various sources. They are cool.
Quote from: Nigel on March 02, 2009, 05:16:32 PM
Quote from: Dildo_Daggins on February 01, 2009, 04:49:16 AM
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
This one (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html) gave me a lot of thinking. I know my life has been distinctly lacking in fun lately.
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 18, 2009, 09:30:24 PM
This one (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html) 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.
I like that guy.
When I grow up I want to be too busy doing cartwheels to be just like him.
Quote from: Kai on March 18, 2009, 11:06:00 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 18, 2009, 09:30:24 PM
This one (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html) 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.
Quote from: LMNO goes back to the Big Blue Cock on March 19, 2009, 11:50:17 AM
Quote from: Kai on March 18, 2009, 11:06:00 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on March 18, 2009, 09:30:24 PM
This one (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html) 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.
BUMP for another Daniel Dennett video. This one is about dangerous memes:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/116
Bump for a great video by Michael Specter about science denialism:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/824
Ah! TED! A friend of mine introduced me to the TED conferences maybe a year or two back. I was really impressed by what I had seen, but apparently I had forgotton about it. I see a lot of my time going into watching all these vids in the near future...