TED talks
- Watched
- Jimmy Wales: The birth of Wikipedia
- Robert Neuwirth: The hidden world of shadow cities
- Kevin Kelly: How technology evolves
- Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology
- Ashraf Ghani: How to rebuild a broken state
- Sasa Vucinic: Why we should invest in a free press
- Iqbal Quadir: How mobile phones can fight poverty
- Jacqueline Novogratz: Invest in Africa’s own solutions
- Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce
- Helen Fisher: Why we love, why we cheat
- Richard Dawkins: Why the universe seems so strange
- Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of crack dealing
- Eve Ensler: Happiness in body and soul
- Mena Trott: Meet the founder of the blog revolution
- Hans Rosling: The best stats you’ve ever seen
- Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game
- Dan Dennett: Dangerous memes
- Evelyn Glennie: How to truly listen
- Deborah Gordon: The emergent genius of ant colonies
- Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?
- Stephen Hawking: Questioning the universe
- Nicholas Negroponte: 5 predictions, from 1984
- Dave Eggers: My wish: Once Upon a School
- Kevin Kelly: The next 5,000 days of the web
- AJ Jacobs: My year of living biblically
- Steven Strogatz: The science of sync
- Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
- Barry Schwartz: Our loss of wisdom
- Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
- Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue soft power
- Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?
- pay doctors when you’re healthy
- blocks have numbers, not streets
- Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
- Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
-  And the textbook, I think, knows how it’s hamstringing students because, watch this, this is the practice problem set. When it comes time to do the actual problem set, we have problems like this right here where we’re just swapping out numbers and tweaking the context a little bit. And if the student still doesn’t recognize the stamp this was molded from, it helpfully explains to you what sample problem you can return to to find the formula. You could literally, I mean this, pass this particular unit without knowing any physics, just knowing how to decode a textbook. That’s a shame.
- Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
- Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
- Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box
- Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
- Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?
- Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?
- Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome
- Charles Limb: Your brain on improv
- Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days
- Jonas Gahr Støre: In defense of dialogue
- Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books
- Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government
- Susan Cain: The power of introverts
- Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
- Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything
- Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
- Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!
- Maz Jobrani: A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar
- Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day
- Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers — make it fun
- Colin Powell: Kids need structure
- Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
- Cameron Russell: Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model.
- Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20
- Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit
- Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley
- Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!
- Pearl Arredondo: My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher
- Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
- Rose George: Let’s talk crap. Seriously.
- Jessica Green: We’re covered in germs. Let’s design for that.
- Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity … (rewatch)
- Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong (rewatch)
- Amanda Palmer: The art of asking (rewatch)
- Bruce Feiler: Agile programming — for your family
- Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
- Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind (rewatch)
- Dan Dennett: Let’s teach religion — all religion — in schools
- Bill Clinton: My wish: Rebuilding Rwanda
- Carl Honoré: In praise of slowness
- Jeff Bezos: The electricity metaphor for the web’s future
- Sergey Brin + Larry Page: The genesis of Google
- Kinda cute?
- Scientific theory of Cities
- we need it, 1 million people moving to cities every week
- will collapse if we don’t innovate
- Dan Dennett: The illusion of consciousness
- magic trick
- saw in half
- artful blobs of paint
- consciousness is a bag of tricks
- Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread
- Ze Frank: Nerdcore comedy
- Stefan Sagmeister: Happiness by design
- Robert Thurman: We can be Buddhas
- Daniel Goleman: Why aren’t we more compassionate?
- moving too fast, too distracted
- eventually everyone will know everything; will it make a difference?
- noticed hispanic guy, everyone saved him
- To Rewatch
- Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
- Michael Dickinson: How a fly flies
- Afra Raymond: Three myths about corruption