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 Post subject: Interesting talks
PostPosted: 15 Sep 2010, 15:58 
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I'll use this topic to throw stuff in such as talks and docu's i find interesting. Feel free to add stuff which is vaguely related to the same kind of topics.

Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation
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TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness. And for TED, it means the dawn of a whole new chapter ...
http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson ... ation.html
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Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
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Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_barani ... rning.html
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Arthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic"
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In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He’ll tell you.
http://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjami ... magic.html
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First thread I have ever subscribed to 8)

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A stroke of Insight
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Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_ ... sight.html


The Danger of a Single Story
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Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/chima ... story.html


Why are we happy?
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Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_g ... happy.html

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A stroke of Insight
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Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_ ... sight.html
Watching this now, massively interesting!

Amazingly, the stoke she describes, you know how close that comes to a proper drugs trip?

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Just a bit dramatic on the end, but touching!

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That "Why are we happy" talk is a bit of a mind fuck, we fool ourselves every possible way :mrgreen:
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Michael Shermer on strange beliefs
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Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe -- and overlook the facts.
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_sherme ... hings.html
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This dude is mental :mrgreen:

Lennart Green does close-up card magic
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Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, "Pick a card, any card." But what he does with those cards is pure magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lennart_green_ ... magic.html
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Carne Ross: An independent diplomat
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After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross became a "freelance diplomat," running a bold nonprofit that gives small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations a voice in international relations. At the BIF-5 conference, he calls for a new kind of diplomacy that gives voice to small countries, that works with changing boundaries and that welcomes innovation.
http://www.ted.com/talks/carne_ross_an_ ... lomat.html
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Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
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At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_wh ... e_sex.html
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Charles Leadbeater on innovation
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In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't.
http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbe ... ation.html
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Woody Norris invents amazing things
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Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways, and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts it: "Almost nothing has been invented yet." So -- what's next?
http://www.ted.com/talks/woody_norris_i ... hings.html
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Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom
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Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.
http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz ... isdom.html
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Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human
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n this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (and controversial) technologies, like customizable babies, whose adoption might drive human evolution.
http://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_stock_ ... human.html
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Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science
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Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don't look for it on your ballot -- or in the stock exchange. It'll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be ... different.
http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_ ... ience.html
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Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs
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MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results.
http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_gershenfe ... _labs.html
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Amy Smith shares simple, lifesaving design
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Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal.
http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_smith_shar ... esign.html

These kind of projects are just fascinating!
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Cameron Sinclair on open-source architecture
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Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living standards through collaborative design.
http://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_sincla ... cture.html
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[SpA]SaintK wrote:
This dude is mental :mrgreen:

Lennart Green does close-up card magic
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Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, "Pick a card, any card." But what he does with those cards is pure magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lennart_green_ ... magic.html
Watched a few days ago, loved it

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Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories
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Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we're all feeling and looking for.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_harri ... ories.html
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http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/invisible-worlds/
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Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds is a BBC television documentary programme presented by Richard Hammond that features state-of-the-art camera technology used to focus on what humans cannot see with the naked eye. It is one series long consisting of three episodes.
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http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/invisible-worlds/
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Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds is a BBC television documentary programme presented by Richard Hammond that features state-of-the-art camera technology used to focus on what humans cannot see with the naked eye. It is one series long consisting of three episodes.
I watched this, it was pretty fascinating. A must see.
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Bangkok Girl is a documentary mostly following one girl, Pla, and her struggle against the sex trade. Its not a massively in depth in fact its a little light on the surface its not even that revelatory (to me anyway) oh yeah and the narrator is a dick, however it tells Pla's story well and helps hit home.

Due to the subject matter I wouldn't advise watching this if you are easily upset highly empathetic.


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I would be more inclined to watch that one if the subtitle underneath had said 'They tried to make me go to rehab and I said no, no, no'.
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Derren Brown: The System
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The System, a Channel 4 special in which Brown shared his 100 percent guaranteed method for winning on the horses.

The show was based around the idea that a system could be developed to guarantee a winner of horse races. Cameras followed a member of the public, Khadisha, as Brown anonymously sent her correct predictions of five races in a row, before encouraging her to place as much money as she could on the sixth race.

To demonstrate the system to the viewer, Brown tossed a coin showing ten heads in a row to prove it was not impossible, just highly improbable.

After Brown had placed a bet of £4,000 of Khadisha’s money on a horse in the final race, he explained that The System did not really exist.

Brown expressed the opinion that the principle behind The System (essentially confirmation bias or survivorship bias) is what is behind belief in spiritualism or homeopathic and alternative medicine.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/derren-brown-the-system/
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The start of The System was nice, but as they revealed the obviously cheated coin toss the show went downhill. Not only did they took forever to explain their simple sytem ( predictable with all the photos shown ), but they didnt reveal the really interesting trick, where he made the 4 sports persons pick the specific photos. Kinda disappointed overall. :(


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Dekar wrote:
The start of The System was nice, but as they revealed the obviously cheated coin toss the show went downhill. Not only did they took forever to explain their simple sytem ( predictable with all the photos shown ), but they didnt reveal the really interesting trick, where he made the 4 sports persons pick the specific photos. Kinda disappointed overall. :(


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The bottom idea is not how the tricks are done, it's how people make themselves believe certain things because the highly improbable happens to them.
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Is The Bible Still Relevant Today?
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Nicky Campbell presents a special edition of The Big Questions recorded at Bury Grammar School Boys.

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, the British TV program The Big Questions debates just one topic: Is The Bible Still Relevant?

Contributing their views from the panel are: the Right Reverend Michael Nazir Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester; the scientist and atheist campaigner, Professor Richard Dawkins; Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner from the North Western Reform Synagogue; and the Bible scholar Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou, who presented the BBC Two series, The Bible’s Buried Secrets.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/is-the-b ... ant-today/
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I really need to get round to watching some of these, paticularly that last one.
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JR, a French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face. He makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. A funny, moving talk about art and who we are. Learn more at insideoutproject.net.
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