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Check out this video of a TED talk with Jane McGonigal, a video game designer, who believes we can solve world problems by playing games online (and discusses what an “epic win” is).
Be sure to check out Urgent Evoke, a social network game to help empower young people all over the world to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems. Let’s come together to play games to save the world!
(Read more and see the video on the original post.)Check out this video of a TED talk with Jane McGonigal, a video game designer, who... more
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Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain.Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish... more
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Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual system develops. Dr Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn to interpret visual data. The work offers insights into neuroscience, engineering and even autism.Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual... more
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In this affecting video, TEDTalks Prize winner Jamie Oliver shares powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., and makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.In this affecting video, TEDTalks Prize winner Jamie Oliver shares powerful stories... more
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John Hockenberry visits artist Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate look at his science-inspired art. An eye-opening, personal conversation reveals how nature's forces -- and the onset of Parkinson's tremors -- interact in his life and craft.John Hockenberry visits artist Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate... more
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Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and painstaking, but the reward is a superpower: looking at what the human eye can't see.Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of... more
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When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses -- and they discovered that the collective data had enormous power to comfort, explain and predict.When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to... more
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Traditional lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for regions that are most in need. George Whitesides' ingenious answer, at TEDxBoston, is a foolproof tool that can be manufactured at virtually zero cost.Traditional lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for... more
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Natasha Tsakos presents part of her one-woman, multimedia show, "Upwake." As the character Zero, she blends dream and reality with an inventive virtual world projected around her in 3D animation and electric sound.Natasha Tsakos presents part of her one-woman, multimedia show, "Upwake." As... more
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The following talks include thoughts on creativity, play, technology, the future of entire countries through their children, projects to nurture learning in at-risk students, and much more.The following talks include thoughts on creativity, play, technology, the future of... more
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Author Elizabeth Gilbert, famous for her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, suggested Thursday that we kill geniuses by demanding super-human powers from them.
The problem, she says, lies in how we attribute the qualities of geniusness.
Instead of seeing the individual as a genius, we should view the brilliance as a gift from an unknowable outside source -- some might call it a muse, others a fairy or god force -- that visits us on occasion to participate in an act of creation, and then leaves to help someone else. Gilbert was referring primarily to those in the arts, but her talk applied to anyone who creates something sublime, whether it's a painting in the Sistine Chapel or a quantum equation.Author Elizabeth Gilbert, famous for her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, suggested... more
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TED Talks - Sir Ken Robinson
Very humorous and truthful view on our [the world's] education system. I love creativity and have definitely have seen this growing up
What's your take on it?TED Talks - Sir Ken Robinson
Very humorous and truthful view on our [the... more
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"To celebrate this milestone, we're releasing a never-before-seen list: the Top 10 TEDTalks of all time, as of June 2008.""To celebrate this milestone, we're releasing a never-before-seen list: the... more
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In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates' climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents... more
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"Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.""Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would... more
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"TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant is an epidemiologist who presided over the last case of SmallPox on the planet. He also founded the Seva Foundation, which works to reverse cases of blindness, and co-founded several technology start-ups, including the legendary online community, The Well. He was recently named Executive Director of the Google Foundation. In this talk, he explains in fascinating detail the key behind the successful WHO campaign to eradicate Smallpox, and then unveils his TEDPrize wish: to build a global system that detects each new disease or disaster as it emerges or occurs.""TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant is an epidemiologist who presided over the last... more
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One of my favorite appearances by Mr. Gore, and in this the first five minutes are hilarious. Thought I would post this for those who may not have seen him at Ted Talks. Happy Holidays.One of my favorite appearances by Mr. Gore, and in this the first five minutes are... more
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