http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

check some of these vids out (Sir Ken Robinson, Daniel Pink, etc.)

3/7/2011 9:32:44 PM

also on Hulu...

3/7/2011 9:54:54 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N25inoCea24&feature=player_embedded

3/7/2011 9:58:25 PM

Wow so weird you posted this.. I was just watching a TED video earlier.

3/7/2011 9:59:03 PM

Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy?

http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector#p/u/10/LTO_dZUvbJA

3/7/2011 10:05:40 PM

Surprising science of motivation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y

Do schools kill creativity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

3/7/2011 10:12:05 PM

legs

3/7/2011 10:13:12 PM

anybody seen the TED talk where the neuroscientist describes her experience having a stroke? interesting stuff.

ibt"thats totally what LSD feels like"

3/7/2011 10:16:22 PM

My favorite: "Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music"

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

3/7/2011 11:06:28 PM

I love TED videos

3/7/2011 11:21:46 PM

5/16/2011 4:33:00 PM

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5/16/2011 4:38:29 PM

gah - I can't even visit the ted site until they have a major conference. Weeding through all the liberal BS, people doing interpretive dance and singing to get to the actual science is just not worth it. After a summer conference, however, it's the tits.

Hans Rosling is easily my favorite:
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

Clickthrough to see his updated data too. Stunning.

5/16/2011 5:29:50 PM

^I LOVE LOVE LOVE that guy!!

5/16/2011 5:44:08 PM

seen too many great TED videos to recall but one of my recent favorites that sticks out is

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


dude builds sweet custom houses on the cheap from recycled/reclaimed/re-appropriated materials...cool stuff

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5/16/2011 7:16:14 PM

^I just watched that one. I swear I thought I was listening to my dad talk about some of his projects around his house. That dude looks like him and may even dress like him. That guy just needs salt and pepper hair, an unkempt mountain main beard, some bulky silver with turquoise rings, a harley, wear heavy black steel toed boots with pouch strap for a blade, and have a gold rhymed front tooth and you have my dad.

5/17/2011 10:53:57 AM

I liked the TED presentation about the world's population and US immigration with gumballs. Check it out if you haven't seen it.

5/17/2011 12:54:28 PM

TED used to be good, but now they'll let any retard wander in off the street and speak. They had David Blaine on a while back...he broke down and cried for some reason on stage, pretty sure he trolled them, it was pathetic.

And that woman who had the stroke was a waste of 5 minutes of my life. You could hear the audience groaning at her when she started going on about that peaceful everyone is connected energy bullshit.

TED should have a hook to drag these fools off stage.

5/17/2011 12:57:29 PM

ok

5/17/2011 1:14:46 PM

clearly you are disconnected with the energy around you

5/17/2011 2:16:18 PM

the new Hans Rosling
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html

5/17/2011 2:50:44 PM

Quote :

"^I just watched that one. I swear I thought I was listening to my dad talk about some of his projects around his house. That dude looks like him and may even dress like him. That guy just needs salt and pepper hair, an unkempt mountain main beard, some bulky silver with turquoise rings, a harley, wear heavy black steel toed boots with pouch strap for a blade, and have a gold rhymed front tooth and you have my dad."

punchmonk's Dad welcomed qntmfred to the family with a roundhouse kick and a round of various liquors.

[Edited on May 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM. Reason : f]

5/17/2011 3:07:06 PM

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

interesting


http://tinyurl.com/3ftxor9


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10/17/2011 8:58:41 PM

I recently volunteered my photography for TEDxMIA: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2149

There were a couple of interesting talks: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/browse/talks-by-event/TEDxMIA

10/17/2011 9:21:46 PM

Agree on Hans Rosling. Another favorite of mine:

James Howard Kunstler: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_suburbia.html

Had the opportunity to go to TedXTriangle:
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/search/?search=TEDxTriangle


That was a very inspiring and good time. Favorites were Hugh Hollowell and Joel Wiggins (Can't find Joel's presentation here.)

I was first introduced to TED via a presentation by Josh Prince Ramus (Architect):
http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_prince_ramus_on_seattle_s_library.html

10/18/2011 9:01:45 PM

this one on mycology is pretty awesome. its all about the fungus.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2DG8t6/www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html

10/18/2011 11:30:48 PM

is it just me or was this thread like 4 years late.

Youtube is over. Next thing is renren.

10/19/2011 1:45:27 AM

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

1/18/2012 1:26:21 PM

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

1/25/2012 1:40:16 AM

http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_harouni_a_primer_on_3d_printing.html

4/7/2012 9:28:05 PM

Augmented Reality

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4/7/2012 9:28:42 PM

TEDxNCSU

4/7/2012 10:56:35 PM

Richard Dawkins

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

4/8/2012 12:47:38 PM

How's that militant atheism working out in NC these days?

5/4/2012 6:12:47 PM

5/4/2012 6:18:04 PM

Don’t mention income inequality please, we’re entrepreneurs
At this point, TED is a massive, money-soaked orgy of self-congratulatory futurism
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/21/dont_mention_income_inequality_please_were_entrepreneurs/singleton/

Quote :

"Strip away the hype and you’re left with a reasonably good video podcast with delusions of grandeur. For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it’s a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it’s changing the world, like if “This American Life” suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders. The model for your standard TED talk is a late-period Malcolm Gladwell book chapter. Common tropes include: Drastically oversimplified explanations of complex problems. Technologically utopian solutions to said complex problems. Unconventional (and unconvincing) explanations of the origins of said complex problems. Staggeringly obvious observations presented as mind-blowing new insights. "

I chuckled

5/22/2012 9:47:21 PM

To be fair, the self-absorbed and money-soaked "entrepreneurs" are the backers and the organizers, not the presenters. They outsource that job, you know, the job that is the entire point of TED.

And TEDx isn't even organized by the elite. No really, it's a miracle that some of these ever manage to get a working microphone.

It is deeply concerning, however, that they managed to keep that one talk from ever seeing the internet. It just goes to show that a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license is meaningless if they allow themselves to censor it before they ever release it.

5/23/2012 8:32:37 AM

^ did you even read the followup on WHY it was censored? and not the shit floating around the internet that was based on assumptions and other made up shit. Also, if you actually watched the talk, you'd see very quickly why it was not selected to be published. It was garbage.

5/23/2012 9:00:27 AM

^

5/23/2012 9:01:41 AM

Quote :

"Also, if you actually watched the talk"

link?

5/23/2012 9:29:46 AM

http://tedchris.posterous.com/131417405

5/23/2012 9:48:35 AM

Quote :

"link?"

there you go mrfrog

5/23/2012 9:50:35 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/business/media/ted-partners-with-pbs-for-education-program.html

Quote :

"In its first television foray, TED has joined forces with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the New York public broadcaster WNET for a one-hour special, “TED Talks Education,” to be broadcast on PBS on Tuesday. If it is successful, the program could become a template for future joint projects, said Juliet Blake, one of the show’s executive producers and the TED official charged with bringing the conferences to television."

5/6/2013 9:49:32 AM

I love TED

I need to start watching more.

5/6/2013 9:53:40 AM

^

one of my favorites is sugata mitra. http://www.ted.com/pages/sole_challenge#download

but that could also be influenced because I think that type of Indian accent is so cool/awesome to hear. Other than morgan freeman, this accent is my favorite narration voice.

5/7/2013 8:52:01 AM

TED is a scam. Think of it like scientology day camp. They work hard to build a cultish atmosphere, but ultimately all they want is money.

5/7/2013 9:52:44 AM

5/7/2013 2:20:58 PM

5/7/2013 2:39:10 PM

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/11/banned-ted-talk-job-creator-myth/

5/13/2013 4:19:08 PM

Bring back car talk

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5/13/2013 4:21:03 PM