A Charter for Compassion
Karen Armstrong is a wonderful writer and an original thinker on the subject of religion in the modern world. I’ve already commented on some her writings and find that I have great respect for her...
View ArticleClifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an Agile mind
This is one of the most energetic talks I’ve ever heard. Clifford Stoll is amazing! I’m not even going to try to explain what he talks about since he moves from one subject or interest to another so...
View ArticleStephen Hawking: Asks questions about the universe
A wonderful talk in which Stephen discusses the following questions: Where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there? What is...
View ArticleWii Remote hacking
Johnny Lee shows off some Wii remote hacks. It’s a great talk and demonstrates how the Wii remote is a beautiful example of designing for appropriation something that Alan’s been talking about for ages.
View ArticleOpen Source Economics
Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law...
View ArticleThe universe on a string
In clear, nontechnical language, string theorist Brian Greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from Einstein’s notions of gravity and space-time to Superstring Theory, where...
View ArticleThe amazing intelligence of Crows
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...
View ArticleA life of fascinations
Truly inspirational … Nathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations — animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillionaire. Listen for wild...
View ArticleMemes and “temes’
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself...
View ArticleInstitution vs Collaboration
Been doing a lot of thinking recently about network effects, participation and collaboration. This Ted talk by Clay Shirky, although three years old, was made available a few day’s ago and might seem...
View Articletruly inspiring …
Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It’s “ubuntu,” he says: the only way for me to be...
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Architecture is a special effects machine …
Absolutely fantastic talk by Liz Diller, in which she shares her firm DS+R’s more unusual work, like the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog: Her firm’s work is cutting edge, innovative and...
View ArticleThe Web as a city
Outside.in’s Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster...
View ArticlePresenting the Orb
Working with his father, Ron Sears, Nick Sears is designing and building the Orb, a rotating LED display that uses persistence of vision to produce moving images in 3D space.
View ArticleMoller’s SkyCar
This is an old TED talk but always an inspiring one. Paul Moller talks about the future of personal air travel — the marriage of autos and flight that will give us true freedom to travel off-road. He...
View ArticleGreat design is serious ( not solemn )
Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she’s done album covers, books, the Citibank logo …) and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun. Look for gorgeous designs and images from...
View ArticleLinked Data and Scientific Publishing
Tim Berners-Lee gave a talk at TED2009 on Linked Data. The slides for the talk can be found here. TED have not made this talk available for viewing yet. However part of the focus of the talk was around...
View ArticleSeth Godin on the tribes we lead
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead...
View ArticlePhilip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time...
View ArticleDan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen...
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