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Below is a list of Ted Talks, my top five which blew me away, followed by some other favorites. Enjoy! Top 5: Zander on music, Hans Rosling on World Development, Bolte on Strokes, Lessing on Creative Commons, and the DNA Folding one Some other favourites (full list here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/favorites/id/564 ): Putting photos together - magically (Photosynth) Design of the Universe Johnny Lee: Creati…
A must watch.
Jill 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…
Malcom 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 =)
Incidentally, now that I've finagled Gladwell and Glass into the same sentence: Ira Glass's interview on storytelling is not a TED talk. But it should be. Especially part 3:
The talk covers the scaling of capitalism to the "other 80%" and the profound social change that takes place with small capital outlays.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/john_hodgman_s_brief_digr...
An oldie but a goldie: Sir Ken Robinson's talk on education and creativity delivered with such panache: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools...
Shai Agassi talking about his company Betterplace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPEwJfSaYmY
(Just try to ignore Tim O'Reilly's annoying, negative presence and useless attempts to upstage his guest)
Aubrey De Gray on aging http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_ca...
Jeff Hawkins on AI http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain...
Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/neil_gershenfeld_on_fab_l...
Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_techn...
the David Deutsch one.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_deutsch_on_our_plac...
My favorite, too.
He talks about good and evil, about his famous Stanford prison experiment, about Abu Ghraib, about heroes and villains. Very emotional, very expiring and thought-provoking.