TED - "Videos Worth Spreading"

Some of you may have heard of TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) before - but if not

TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences curated by the American private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading".

(Wikipedia)

For those of you who have, what are your favourite TED videos?

Miwa Matreyek's glorious visions - this is extremely well done and well worth the watch.

Arthur Benjamin - the Mathemagician

CrazyRabbit

Funniest I've seen in a while (though the speakers voice is kinda irritating)

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

Basq

Have a real soft spot for the JJ Abrams 'The Mystery Box' at TED..

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

dambarude

Ken Robinson on school and creativity is very interesting. Funny too!
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

--Kaiser--

Goddammit, I won a ticket to one of these TED talks before, and didn't go because I thought it would be boring!

bleg

TED is awesome. TEDx Tallaght is happening on the 11th!

www.tedxtallaght.com

--Kaiser--

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Goddammit, I won a ticket to one of these TED talks before, and didn't go because I thought it would be boring!

No way! I would love to go to one of them - I was at the TEDx event in Galway and it was brilliant - some really interesting things being discussed.

Panda

I'm a big fan of TED talks, very intelligent people talking about their passion is always interesting.

I downloaded a load of them a few years back in case they started removing them, then they put them up on youtube anyway.....

Heres two that'll wet your appetite:
Rives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORYKKNoRcDc

And
Evelyn Glennie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3V6zNER4g

Damn - the TED site is upgrading so can't watch any of these

Panda

Deleted User wrote: »

Damn - the TED site is upgrading so can't watch any of these

They're all on youtube brosef.

yahoo_moe

Ah TED... so many videos, so little time.

Favourite has to be Sixth Sense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blBohrmyo-I

Panda

Panda wrote: »

They're all on youtube brosef.

Not all of them

One of my favourites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmZBMuZ6vE

Not a Ted talk,but fascinating none the less

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypd5txtGdGw

strobe

Former rock star with 80's band Dare and Irish band D:ream of "things can only get better" fame, now a lead physicist working on the CERN LHC (what a jammy prick) talking about the collider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uKZWnJLCM

I always thought this one was originally a TED talk but can't find it on there so I guess not. Still very interesting though, well worth a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo