the David Deutsch one.
Ask HN: What is your favorite TED talk?
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#22It's little off the beaten path, but I guess I really like food. Dan Barber's parable of foie gras was really interesting and moving to me.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_f...
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#23I like Joshua Klein's talk about Crows: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intel... I, for one, welcome our new crow overlords.
Definitely the crows talk has been my favorite.
A quick summary if you are not convinced. This guy has trained crows to interact with a vending machine. I am surprised by how intelligent they are. Go watch it!
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#24Malcom Gladwell on Spaghetti Sauce
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spagh...
Replace spaghetti sauce with software development and Facebook versus Twitter Versus Hacker News Versus Reddit etc
It's all about users =)
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#25Another good one not yet mentioned is Benjamin Zander on Music and Passion:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_...
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#26Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happiness
What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/matthieu_ricard_on_the_ha...
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#27I found Dave Eggers Ted Prize speech to be funny and inspiring. http://www.tedprize.org/video-talk-dave-eggers/
Ditto. His humility and humor about doing something that so directly improves the lives of people around him is just crazy inspiring.
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#28It's gotta be photosynth. The ability to stitch together disparate photos is really cool: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_dem...
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#29Jill Bolte's talk about her stroke. Her talk illustrates the different processing styles of our right and left hemispheres. This is a fascinating subject, that often gets trivialized because of all the New Age BS revolving around it. Her experience is remarkable, and very powerfully delivered. Don't be fooled by her "spiritual" overtones, the science she references is very real and convincing, and the way she ties it…
If you found her talk fascinating (as did I), definitely check out her book (http://drjilltaylor.com/book.html), which covers the entire process in great detail. At times its a bit slow, but it successfully elucidates the challenges she faced, and the eight years of recovery which followed the stroke.
I think the spiritual aspect of the story shouldn't be ignored: our perception of reality is also 'plastic', and we can, to a large extent, retrain ourselves to respond differently to sensory input.
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#30Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe. Seriously....Amazing. A must for everyone. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mu...
+1... My favorite talk thus far. Amazing content, from an amazing man.
The talk done by Clifford Stoll was probably the most amusing however.