TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

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