Interesting TED Talks

[MikeGTi]

I've been watching TED Talks online for quite a while now, and figured that it may be worth having a thread for interesting TED Talks here on PH.

I'll start off, with Robert Ballard on exploring the oceans.

Are there any more fans of TED on PH?

[LordGrover]

MikeGTi said:

Are there any more fans of TED on PH?

Some are very good, many dull.
Therefore, good idea for a thread - sort the detritus from the chaff says he metaphor mixing.

[SpeckledJim]

LordGrover said:

MikeGTi said:

Are there any more fans of TED on PH?

Some are very good, many dull.
Therefore, good idea for a thread - sort the detritus from the chaff says he metaphor mixing.

You can keep the detritus and the chaff together for me.

[crmcatee]

18 Minutes with an agile mind is a cracking watch.

Clifford Stoll.
http://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everyth...

Also written a great book - Cuckoo's Egg.

[speedy_thrills]

MikeGTi said:

Are there any more fans of TED on PH?

I was a big fan but the quality of the talks has slipped a lot so I've only bothered to watch a couple other people recommended to me. Maybe they ran out of interesting people to ask to present or perhaps in pleasing a wider audience now they have to be more focused on increasing simplification of the science presented?

[Xaero]

I try to keep up with the daily TED videos when I do some cooking using my iPad. This is one that I enjoyed a lot recently: animated tour of the invisible