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TEDTalks: Barry Schwartz (2005)
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Video duration: 1222 seconds
Global video hits: 65230
http://www.ted.com Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice. In this talk, he persuasively explains how and why the abundance of choice in modern society is actually making us miserable. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:22
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TEDTalks: Malcom Gladwell (2004)
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Video duration: 1095 seconds
Global video hits: 54305
http://www.ted.com Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and best-selling author ofThe Tipping Point and Blink. In this talk, filmed at TED2004, he explains what every business can learn from spaghetti sauce. (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 18:15)
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Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks
Posted by: TEDtalksDirector
Video duration: 1235 seconds
Global video hits: 110829
http://www.ted.com With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to debunk several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
Related: data, gapminder, gapminder.org, hans, mining, powerpoint, presentation, rosling, statistics, tedtalks, third_world, world_health
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TEDTalks: Dan Gilbert (2005)
Posted by: TEDtalksDirector
Video duration: 1321 seconds
Global video hits: 56014
http://www.ted.com Dan Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of Stumbling on Happiness. In this memorable talk, filmed at TED2004, he demonstrates just how poor we humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 22:02)
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TEDTalks: Aubrey de Grey (2005)
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Video duration: 1411 seconds
Global video hits: 19979
http://www.ted.com Aubrey de Grey, British biogerontologist and founder of SENS, controversially claims to have created a roadmap to defeat biological aging. In this talk, he argues that aging - like other diseases - can be cured, and that humans can live for centuries, if only we approach the aging process as "an engineering problem." (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 23:31)
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TEDTalks: David Pogue (2006)
Posted by: TEDtalksDirector
Video duration: 1325 seconds
Global video hits: 19233
http://www.ted.com David Pogue is the personal technology columnist for The New York Times, an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News, and one of the world's bestselling how-to authors. In this unconventional talk, he offers a sweeping (and unusual) view on the state of software, partially set to music. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
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TEDTalks: Jimmy Wales (2005)
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Video duration: 1248 seconds
Global video hits: 9269
http://www.ted.com Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)
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TEDTalks: Mena Trott (2006)
Posted by: TEDtalksDirector
Video duration: 1051 seconds
Global video hits: 2343
http://www.ted.com Mena Trott is the 28-year-old founder of leading blog software company Six Apart (Creators of Typepad, Movable Type, LiveJournal and Vox). In this talk, she explores the personal side of blogging. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 17:30)
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TEDTalks : The amazing intelligence of crows - Joshua Klein
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Video duration: 587 seconds
Global video hits: 9300
Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human. (2008)
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TEDTalks: Al Gore (2006)
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Video duration: 1017 seconds
Global video hits: 18390
http://www.ted.com Al Gore, in his own words, "used to be the next President of the United States of America" but has since changed professions. This talk is a follow-up to his now-famous presentation, featured in the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." In it, he outlines what we can do to avert a global climate crisis. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
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Ideas Worth Spreading: TEDTalks Trailer
Posted by: wishnow
Video duration: 184 seconds
Global video hits: 16939
http://ted.com/tedta lks - Here is a sneak peek inside the TED2006 Conference. This is a trailer for the new, weekly, free TEDTalks web/podcast series featuring Al Gore, Rives, Amy Smith, Cameron Sinclair, Alan Russell, Clifford Stoll (pictured), Sir Ken Robinson, Sirena Huang, Larry Brilliant, Bono, Julia Sweeney, Vishal Vaid, Jeff Han, and others.
Related: al, bono, changing, design, entertainment, gore, ideas, spreading, talks, technology, ted, tedtalks, world, worth
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TEDTalks: Jeff Han
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Video duration: 611 seconds
Global video hits: 18348
Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates?for the first time publicly?his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32)
Related: computer, han, interface-free, intuitive, jeff, nyu, pressure, screen, sensitive, tedtalks
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