TED: Ideas worth spreading

[SCORCH]

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.

http://www.ted.com/talks​

Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control.

Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.

Time to eat brehs, post your favourites.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

the "What it feels like to have a stroke" one was good, it was very moving and beautiful. I actually cried a little when I watched it, I can't wait to have my first stroke. Then the one about how education kills creativity or something like that was really good as well.

 

[Vagina Thief]

This one had me in deep thought for a few


How it feels to have a stroke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU&feature=youtu.be Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

 

[SCORCH]

the "What it feels like to have a stroke" one was good, it was very moving and beautiful. I actually cried a little when I watched it, I can't wait to have my first stroke. Then the one about how education kills creativity or something like that was really good as well.

 

[I'mHigh]

Got the app on my phone brehs.

 

[Arcavian]

got this on my tablet watching the power of introverts now....

 

[Bud Bundy]

netflix

 

[OsO]

subs

 

[OsO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPsDky1z94

Map of the Brain

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Love this site

 

[concise]

interesting site

the "What it feels like to have a stroke" one was good, it was very moving and beautiful. I actually cried a little when I watched it, I can't wait to have my first stroke. Then the one about how education kills creativity or something like that was really good as well.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

TED Talks rules.

 

[PYRRHUS 88]

Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alien life | Video on TED.com

Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave. It's a rare and accessible look at this discipline, which may be coming close to finding a planet friendly to life.
Garik Israelian's stargazing on the Canary Islands has led to high-profile discoveries about space's big disasters -- including the first evidence that supernova explosions make black holes.

I've watched so many of these on US Netflix.

 

[Insensitive]

Love that website.

Robotics.
Fvck yeaahhh.

Rodney Brooks says robots will invade our lives | Video on TED.com

In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives -- starting with toys and moving into household chores ... and beyond.

Rodney Brooks builds robots based on biological principles of movement and reasoning. The goal: a robot who can figure things out.

PW Singer on military robots and the future of war | Video on TED.com

In this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of science fiction -- that now may not be so fictitious.

In P.W. Singer's most recent book, "Wired for War," he studies robotic and drone warfighters -- and explores how these new war machines are changing the very nature of human conflict. He has also written on other facets of modern war, including private armies and child soldiers.

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

listenin to this one now pretty interesting

Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood | Video on TED.com


edit: this one too

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