Wednesday 30 April 2008
Monday 28 April 2008
Sunday 27 April 2008
Tuesday 22 April 2008
Saturday 19 April 2008
Friday 18 April 2008
Thursday 17 April 2008
Wednesday 16 April 2008
Craig Venter - Is There Life In Space?
Celebrity geneticist Craig Venter theorizes on the possibilities of life in space, and argues that the most likely source of life in near space may be human contamination.
Tuesday 15 April 2008
Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassio
Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity -- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning to change this fact. People want to be religious, she says; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.
Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional
Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't. He describes the rising role of serious amateurs ("Pro-Ams," as he calls them) through the story of the mountain bike.
Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional
Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't. He describes the rising role of serious amateurs ("Pro-Ams," as he calls them) through the story of the mountain bike.
Monday 14 April 2008
The Thud Experiment
American pych takes a hit.psychiatry and the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical models of human behavior filtered into economic thought.These games were internally coherent and worked correctly as long as the players obeyed the ground rules that they should behave selfishly and try to outwit their opponents, but when RAND's analysts tried the games on their own secretaries, they instead chose not to betray each other, but to cooperate every time. This did not, in the eyes of the analysts, discredit the models, but instead proved that the secretaries were unfit subjects.
Sunday 13 April 2008
Norman Foster: Building on the green agenda
Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically pollution-free." He shares projects from throughout his career, from the pioneering roof-gardened Willis Building (1975) to the London Gherkin (2004). He also comments on two upcoming megaprojects: a pipe to bring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, and the new Beijing airport.
Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
Al latest from TED talks. First presentation of this content.
Saturday 12 April 2008
LA Woman - The Doors
The entire film sequence where the girl and guy meet. This is an homage (this entire video in fact) to Marlene Dietrich and Josef Von Stenberg. Von Sternberg was a famous film noir director in the 1920's and he gave Dietrich her big break. This likely explains the meaning behind it. Don't you love american flaws and all.
Friday 11 April 2008
Chris Anderson with Will Hearst - The New Media
Really important concepts for future business models.
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
Do something good.In 1998, John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft when he took a vacation that changed his life. What started as a trekking holiday in Nepal became a spiritual journey, and then a mission: to change the world one book and one child at a time. So upon returning from holiday, John did what most of us can only dream of doing: he walked away from millions to do "more". Over the next five years he would make the unlikely marriage between Microsoft business practices and the world of non-profits to create Room to Read, an organization that has created a network of over 2,000 schools and libraries (with over one million books) throughout communities in Southeast Asia and India.