Favorite TED talks.

all of these blew my mind in different ways.

Gave me the idea that the internet is a brain:

basic pilars of morals:

Choice Illusions: (take that free market ideologists)

Our nose is a spectrograph/smell is made of vibration:

and this is not a TED talk but it was posted there too and is amazing. The pentatonic scale is universal:

shit, move this to gen ban pls.

I've never seen this website. Gonna check it out, but one of the videos on the front page reminded me of this essay I read a few weeks ago which is awesome:

http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

Here is the TED talk which brought it to mind:

This is based on a TED talk.

[youtubehd]u6XAPnuFjJc[/youtubehd]

TED is a great website, I watch the videos when I'm working out. There's generally about an hour of new stuff every week.

A bit off topic but does anyone know if they ever broadcast the infamous Sarah Silverman TED talk? or publish a transcript?

I don't think so.

  On 5/19/2010 at 7:33 AM, chaosmachine said:

This is based on a TED talk.

 

[youtubehd]u6XAPnuFjJc[/youtubehd]

 

TED is a great website, I watch the videos when I'm working out. There's generally about an hour of new stuff every week.

i remember that one, very nice.

don't let me down watmm...

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They got the 4Chan guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_1UEAGCo30