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James Cameron on curiosity, CGI and science fiction (TEDTalks)

harvey — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:44:07 +0100

James Cameron - director of blockbusters such as Aliens, Terminator, Titanic and Avatar - reflects on his childhood, his insatiable curiosity, and his love of exploration and science fiction.

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David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:49:17 +0100

An interesting talk from illusionist and endurance artist David Blaine about pushing the limits of the human body.

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Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:09:41 +0200

Beau Lotto presents a number of interesting illusions which demonstrate that context is everything.

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Wireless Electricity - Eric Giler (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:25:33 +0100

Over a hundred years after Nikola Tesla's work on wireless electricity, it has finally become a reality - and may become available in stores soon. In this video Eric Giles of MIT inspired WiTricity demonstrates a wirelessly powered TV and cell phone, and explains how it works and why it is safe.

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Nicholas Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia (TEDTalks)

harvey — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:55:24 +0200

An inspirational video which follows Nicholas Negroponte in Colombia as he delivers thousands of little green OLPC laptops (One Laptop Per Child) to children in territory once controlled by guerillas. Up to this point half a million OLPC laptops have been delivered to children around the world.

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The marshmallow experiment: delayed gratification leads to success (TEDTalks)

harvey — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:23:24 +0200

Can marshmallows be used to predict future success? Joachim de Posada explains the landmark experiment with young children on delayed gratification and self discipline. Includes videos of children in Colombia trying hard not to eat the marshmallow.

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Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:47:51 +0200

A fascinating talk about a major paradigm shift in the car industry: electric cars and electric recharge grids could soon become common place, and entire countries could become oil-free by 2020 starting with Denmark, Israel and Australia.

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Why we have virus outbreaks & how we can prevent them (TEDTalks)

samosama — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:28:02 +0200

What can be done to prevent the outbreak of viruses like swine flu? Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe aims to discover new, deadly viruses before they become widespread.

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Sixth Sense Projection Technology (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:37:48 +0100

A wearable device with a projector invented by Pranav Mistry can not only project information about the object you are currently looking at (e.g. a book, person or supermarket item), but it can also project buttons which allow you to interact in various ways.

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Donald Norman: The three ways that good design makes you happy (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:27:33 +0100

Pleasant things work better while design that makes you fearful or anxious can paralyze you. Donald Norman explains how design can impact the way you think and act.

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Juan Enriquez: Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:48:56 +0200

A humorous, inspiring and eye-opening presentation about the financial crisis and the potential of technology to reboot the economy.

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David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think (TEDTalks)

samosama — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:37:06 +0200

Siftables are intelligent, cookie-sized digital blocks with little displays on them. These futuristic toys can do math, play music and can even be used to create stories all by moving around and re-arranging the blocks.

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Bill Gates: How I'm trying to change the world now (TEDTalks)

samosama — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:52:11 +0200

A very enlightening talk from Bill Gates about two big issues: how to stop deadly diseases, and how to improve education. Interesting quote: "because malaria is only in poor countries, it does not get much investment. There is more money put into baldness drugs, than into malaria."

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George Smoot: The design of the universe (TEDTalks)

samosama — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:28:41 +0200

A mind-boggling talk from Nobel Prize in Physics laureate George Smoot about how the universe could have formed, with stunning images and animations from deep-space surveys.

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Sugata Mitra: Indian kids teach themselves to use a computer

harvey — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:56:31 +0100

Can children learn how to use a computer without any help from adults? Sugata Mitra discusses his experiments in India and the surprising results.

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Martin Seligman: Why is psychology good? (TEDTalks)

harvey — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:22:03 +0100

Martin Seligman talks about moving away from the 'disease model', Positive Psychology, happiness, flow and positive intervention.

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Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:36:11 +0200

Crows are so successful at survival because of their high intelligence and ability to learn from each other. Hacker/writer Joshua Klein explores whether crows could be trained to pick up garbage or other useful tasks.

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Johnny Lee: Wii Remote hacks

EduTube — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:04:53 +0200

"Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer."

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Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe

EduTube — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:44:10 +0200

Professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone?

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Neil Turok on the future of Africa

EduTube — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:46:40 +0200

"They want to be the next Einstein" - speaking of bright and ambitious young Africans applying to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) he founded.

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Neurology: How it feels to have a stroke

EduTube — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:24:01 +0200

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke.

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Amazing creatures of the ocean - David Gallo

EduTube — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:17:06 +0200

Only a small percentage of the ocean's marine life has been discovered.

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Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin's lightning math

EduTube — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:41:43 +0200

"Mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head

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Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:51:36 +0100

"The Nets most celebrated lawyer" Larry Lessig argues that copyright law needs an injection of 'common sense'. He argues that the law should be changed, because the majority of young people obtain digital information from illegal sources.

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Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind

EduTube — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:42:03 +0100

"Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind."

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Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence

EduTube — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:55:18 +0200

Contrary to popular belief, our ancestors were far more violent than we are. Today we probably live in the most peaceful time of our species' existence.

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Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

EduTube — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:32:46 +0200

Dutch artist and engineer Theo Jansen uses plastic tubes and bottles to create amazangly lifelike creatures moved by windpower.

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Photosynth demo: multidimensional spaces

EduTube — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:49:04 +0200

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped
from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional

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Bonobos that write, start fires and play Pac-Man (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:59:43 +0100

Bonobos can walk upright, understand spoken language, write and develop stone tools. Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobos forces us to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology and how much by cultural exposure.

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Tony Robbins on internal drive and motivation (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:35:09 +0200

Tony Robbins' inspirational talk on how to unlock your true potential. From TedTalks 2006.

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Steven Levitt: the Freakonomics of inner-city gangs

EduTube — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:31:53 +0200

TedTalks: Steven Levitt is an economics professor at the University of Chicago and the best-selling author of Freakonomics.

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Spaghetti Sauce - Malcolm Gladwell (TEDTalks)

EduTube — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:13:06 +0200

Malcolm Gladwell (best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink) explains what every business can learn from spaghetti sauce, and why we have so much choice in food nowadays.

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Richard Dawkins on the Strangeness of Science

EduTube — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:51:20 +0200

Mind-expanding talk that probes the limits of human understanding: Why can't we see atoms? Why can't we hear color?

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Al Gore on Climate Change (TedTalks)

EduTube — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:53:29 +0200

A follow-up to Al Gore's famous "Inconvenient Truth" presentation. What can we do to avert the crisis of global climate change?

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Gapminder - no more boring data

EduTube — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:24:23 +0100

TedTalks 2007. Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital

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Do schools today kill creativity?

EduTube — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:09:19 +0200

Education guru Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.

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Jeff Han: Multi-Touch Interaction

EduTube — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:07:14 +0200

TedTalks 2006: Jeff Han is a research scientist for NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the inventor of a Minority Report style "interface-free" touch-driven computer

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