I love TED! Do you love TED? What's the greatest thing you heard from TED?

I've watched quite a few TED videos, and they still are as fascinating, thought-provoking and explanatory as they were the first time I watched one.

I think my absolute favorite is Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen. That was extremely educational.

Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes is also very enlightening.

I'm sure many people on CFC have watched at least one or two videos from TED.

What do you think about TED? Is there any particular talk that you really liked?

TED is great

I liked Adam Savage's talk about obsessions. I have seen and enjoyed many more, but he's the only one I can recall at the moment.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/adam_savage_s_obsessions.html

(But I'm afraid there already is a TED thread, although I'm not entirely sure)

TED talks are great and a new thread is fine.

Wow, those were great. I also watched the one with Mandelbrot which was cool.

Never seen those before, instant bookmark, thanks for sharing!

Who doesn't love TED?

Obligatory talk (as in, they should force everyone to watch this) about one of the bigger problems the human race currently has: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/michael_specter_the_danger_of_science_denial.html

You may not agree with all of this (I don't agree completely) but he certainly has ideas and goals worth mentioning and worthwhile to take into consideration: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/stewart_brand_proclaims_4_environmental_heresies.html

For anybody with motivation problems and for anyone that wants to earn big bonuses later: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

I had never even heard of TED before. Bookmarked! Thank you!

Birdjaguar said:

TED talks are great and a new thread is fine.

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Yeah, they're one of the best nonprofit ideas for the internet so far. TED used to be a members only lecture in Silicon Valley but they started putting all the discussions on the web and the rest is history.

Come on guys. You're not the regular audience of Glenn Beck, Oprah or American Idol. Surely something like TED should be more interesting than whether Justin Bieber goes to North Korea or not!

So in the interest of bumping this thread, I'll add two other talks I found interesting:

Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon - Stephen lists 10 ways we could be in really big trouble and some possible ways to solve or mediate the risks and damages. Grave message, funny presentation.

Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil - Rob is the founder of the Transition movement, and talks a bit about how to prepare for the far-after-peak-oil times.