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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Some of our favorite TED talks

Jay asked for a list of our favorite TED talks.  Here are the ones I've asked my daughters to watch:

Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching

Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future

Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks

Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?

Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work

David Pogue says "Simplicity sells"

Deb Roy: The birth of a word

Salman Khan: Education

Dan Myer: Math class needs a makeover

Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong

Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter

Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools

Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination

Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future

Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter

Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine

Bruce Schneier: The security mirage
Henry Cate at 1/24/2012 05:14:00 AM
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