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Fril Estelin · Dec 13, 2008, 10:38 PM // 22:38

Just in case you never heard of this site:
http://www.ted.com/

It has an amazing collection of great videos, each being a 20-minute presentation by renowned people that share their work, experience and wise words during a series of lectures that are as entertaining as they are eye-opening or uplifting.

I've used some during my own university lectures but I'm often watching others to learn about all sort of stuff. I'm going to watch J.J. Abrams' one (creator of Lost, Alias, etc.) now

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Spread the word around you.

P.S.: you can watch the presentation in the webpage or download them in MP4 format, link below the inline video.

Master Fuhon · Dec 18, 2008, 05:12 AM // 05:12

Thanks for pointing out the site. I've been out of college for a couple of years and the 20 minute format fits my attention span perfectly.

I started with the "How we learn" part and I'll see if I can fit in more after that point. I've only watched the one where Mitra talked about leaving a computer in places in India, and finding out that the kids in the community had learned how to use it despite not knowing English. I think I might like this better than the 60+ minute podcasts I had been listening to.

zwei2stein · Dec 18, 2008, 07:24 AM // 07:24

New goal: Do something worth talking about at TED.

Fril Estelin · Dec 18, 2008, 08:31 AM // 08:31

Among the fun ones:

the guy who hacked the wii to create cheap interactive whiteboards (for schools) and 3D immersion visual system

a voyage through videogame history and into the future

J J Abrams talks about storytelling

The science of Origamis

Amazing computational power of this mathematician