My Favorite TED Talks

Posted by admin on Jun 24, 2010 in Sketches

TED has amazing talks. These are some of my favorites:

Brain & Mind:

http://www.ted.com/talks/pawan_sinha_on_how_brains_learn_to_see.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html

* http://www.ted.com/talks/marvin_minsky_on_health_and_the_human_mind.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_goleman_on_compassion.html

** http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_humans.html
** http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html
* http://www.ted.com/talks/murray_gell_mann_on_beauty_and_truth_in_physics.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_drori_on_what_we_think_we_know.html

* http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html
* http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html
..and you can just go here, it’s all interesting: http://www.ted.com/search?q=brain&x=0&y=0

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html (cause Ariely is awesome)

Physics:
(not ted but still)

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/david_deutsch_on_our_place_in_the_cosmos.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_of_everything.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.html (he’s kinda annoying with that smug smile but still interesting)

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/patricia_burchat_leads_a_search_for_dark_energy.html

** http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html
*** http://www.themonthly.com.au/origin-universe-and-arrow-time-sean-carroll-2196
* http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/george_smoot_on_the_design_of_the_universe.html

Bio:

http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_unveils_synthetic_life.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_russell_on_regenerating_our_bodies.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/kary_mullis_next_gen_cure_for_killer_infections.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_rees_asks_is_this_our_final_century.html

Creativity:

http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_sweat_the_small_stuff.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man.html

Funny:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/benjamin_wallace_on_the_price_of_happiness.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_on_4_a_m.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/arthur_benjamin_does_mathemagic.html

Religion and Belief:

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_dennett_s_response_to_rick_warren.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuyUz2XLp1E (and all that follows)
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe.html (cause it might look like its about science but Dawkins’ talks are always religion themed)

Just amazing:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/david_blaine_how_i_held_my_breath_for_17_min.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/dean_kamen_previews_a_new_prosthetic_arm.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_shares_mindboggling_new_science.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_wants_to_grow_energy.html

I’ll keep updating when I find more stuff I watched and loved.

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A collection of helpful design resources

Posted by admin on Apr 29, 2010 in Resources

I’m collecting a list and publishing it here for the sake of helping me and everyone else in need of design resources (free, ofcourse, the paid once are much easier to find).
If you got anything to contribute please do.