TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

can alacrity really be sharp

thing about him is, he still thinks inside the box.

http://i.imgur.com/nowjzaq.jpg

My departmental yearly meeting kicked off with someone playing a TED talk and I was dying inside

WONDER

only happens in that intersection of science and art

i don't know if anyone noticed but there's a little subliminal thing in the above image of him saying hi.

The NPR/TED radio hour is some amazing synergy, guys.

synergism

It would be so awesome if he then lifted up his other hand and on the palm was written "YOU DIPSHIT"

http://i39.tinypic.com/wt7hhs.jpg

this man is a hero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0

i don't lol often but i have been rolling.

WE'RE GONNA KILL 'EM ALL!!!

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/13/ted_talks_are_lying_to_you/

Look on the other speakers' faces during the q&a is priceless

:D

clover that thing has sharp knives watch out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ptUVhs1UU

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/30/we-need-to-talk-about-ted

Let me tell you a story. I was at a presentation that a friend, an astrophysicist, gave to a potential donor. I thought the presentation was lucid and compelling (and I'm a professor of visual arts here at UC San Diego so at the end of the day, I know really nothing about astrophysics). After the talk the sponsor said to him, "you know what, I'm gonna pass because I just don't feel inspired ...you should be more like Malcolm Gladwell."

https://chronicle.com/article/The-New-Academic-Celebrity/145845/

:-/

isn;t the whole point of this dumb shit to post the links on the internet?

i need to see a Spike Lee Ted Talk to research a piece i'm writing and its nowhere on the internet

oh, that's TEDx, or cargo cult fake TED

Quiz: North Korean Slogan or TED Talk Sound Bite?

only got 7 out of 14 : /

that's hilarious

www.ted.com - it's the next best thing to attending a university that actually brings in guest speakers

http://secondlanguage.blogspot.com/2014/08/academic-virtues.html

Perhaps the greatest academic virtue, that is, is patience. Too many academics today think of themselves as public intellectuals whose job it is to "spread ideas" through the most efficient media available to them. Such academics are, literally, ideologues; they think universities produce and distribute ideas. What universities really "produce", friends, is more articulate and knowledgeable students. People who are less likely to be immediately impressed by a TED talk, in fact, because they have a higher standard of belief.

Want to talk about this:

http://www.theawl.com/2014/01/what-if-these-seven-famous-ted-talks-are-just-totally-wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A