TED Talks: Online Lecture Series

[Eagle]

I thought the Orbiter community would enjoy a source for excellent lectures regarding Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED, get it?). It also has talks on global issues and science.

http://www.ted.com/

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Two vids I recommend are one talking about global poverty, statistics, data mining and visual representation of information: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

the second is about one of the first computers:http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/george_dyson_at_the_birth_of_the_computer.html


Enjoy, Happy Learning!


EDIT: More awesome videos:
Burt Rutan on private spaceflight:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/burt_rutan_sees_the_future_of_space.html

Some guy wrote a DNA complier to fold DNA into awesome shapes:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_rothemund_casts_a_spell_with_dna.html

 

[DanP]

Most TED Talks are really interesting... They're also available on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector



P.S. Not to derail the topic... but any news on that fascinating SSTO add-on you were posting about on M6 (the one appearing on your avatar)?

 

[bujin]

Ah yes, TED. I pop in every few months to see what's new. Some fascinating videos on there. I particularly enjoyed the talks by Dan Dennett, VS Ramachandran, Arthur Benjamin, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Carolyn Porco and Martin Rees.