I’ve been watching TED TALKS for a while now, and find that other people refer to TED in casual conversation just like I do. TED’s alternative name is “Ideas Worth Spreading,” and the talks are truly that. Scientists, theorists, philosophers, writers, environmentalists, people of all sorts give short presentations to TED audiences, and [...]
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Top ten tantalizing tidbits from Ted Talks
Published June 30th, 2008 in Attitudes, Body & Mind, Brain Science, Change, Climate, Computers, Earth, Ecosystems, Education, Environment, Evolutionary Biology, Future, Gifted and Talented, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Health, Human World, IQ and Intelligence, Ideas, Innovation, Invention, Life, Mathematics, Mental health, Mind, Motivation, Natural phenomena, Neuroscience, Oceans, Philosophy, Population Growth, Poverty, Psychology, Right Brain/Left Brain, Savantism, Science, Statistics, Success, Technology, Ted Talks, Trends, Video, Virtual Reality and Webcams. 0 CommentsSome things you just can’t give up
Published June 15th, 2008 in Change, Collapse, Computers, Education, Future, Human World, Journalism, Magazines, News, Philosophy, Science, Trends and Uncategorized. 4 CommentsI’m having a tough time lately trying to decide which magazine and newspaper subscriptions to renew and which ones to let slide. This is a personal thing happening to me, but it is also a widespread phenomenon. Suddenly, people are doing their reading and their newshounding online and don’t have time to do the reading [...]