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[EDIT: thread was setup as "recommendations for TED talks", but it quickly became apparent a general S&T video thread was more appropriate. Thnx Akoto for updating!]

I'm setting this up in hopes of it being a good recommendation thread for the TED talk series (was surprised the last thread on the series is untouched since '12)

I've been watching these a while and it seems impossible to get close to caught up. Some that I've enjoyed recently:

Testing for Parkinson's by voice over the phone

How to spot a liar

Underwater Astonishments

What facebook and google are hiding from us

What would you recommend?
Also, suggestions on other series are welcome- the 30c3 conference had a ton of great stuff (applebaum's 'to protect and infect' was outstanding IMO)
 
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the talks [that don't get censored] are pretty good but i think it's just, like Eddie says, a consequence of TED seeking out the sort of people who give interesting talks. A lot of crazy stuff is out there, but not in an accessible way, and TED makes exposure easy.
 
That's what I like it for, great exposure to 'intro to'-level talks for such incredibly diverse areas; many things I'd never have stumbled across otherwise. There's a tons of amazing stuff out there and TED ain't it, but there's so much crap out there that it's hard (for me!) to sift through the BS to get what's decent.


printing_a_human_kidney
3D printing organs, biomaterial scaffolding etc. Very cool!
 
WOW! He's awesome, that guy could be the next Bill Nye!!
Have been watching him for over half hr now, great stuff. Thanks this is my saturday night :)

[edit: "what is cool?" "why do we laugh/is it contagious?" This is really entertaining stuff!]
 
nice :) everybody remembers Bill Nye the Science Guy but nobody remembers Beakman's World :(
 
who's world? ;)

I probably watched 20+ of the vsauce clips last night, incredible stuff. 'The more you know, the more you realize you don't know', but g'damn is it awesome trying to start!
 
This one (Just a guy saying consciousness is a product of the brain)

http://www.ted.com/talks/john_searle_our_shared_condition_consciousness

This one:

http://www.ted.com/talks/andy_puddicombe_all_it_takes_is_10_mindful_minutes

And this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8rRzTtP7Tc

2nd two are a much watch.. How mediation can literally change the physiology of the brain (psychological benefits)

And the woman who explains what her stroke felt like (very interesting)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU

(Sorry if any of these had been mentioned)
 
thujone said:
nice :) everybody remembers Bill Nye the Science Guy but nobody remembers Beakman's World :(
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Those penguins tho.

My favorite TED talk of all-time is Sir Ken Robinson's "Are Schools Killing Creativity?". It works for me on many levels and education is certainly something I care about.

One of the more fun ones (though not a TED talk):

 
Akoto- thnx for changing thread title for me :)

I recently found that rick doblin was on the 'joe rogan experience' podcast and, after watching that, I checked for other doblin/MAPS media; I found that rick did a Google Tech Talk some years ago called 'mainstreaming psychedelics'. I much preferred this to the JRE vid, which was already great. Rick is good to hear speak, but the work he's doing is (IMO) of incredible importance, and I can't applaud the guy enough for how well he's approaching such a massive undertaking as MAPS has been pursuing.

Google Tech Talks are just good in general, IME.


ricardo08 said:
There's a good one by Mikko Hypponen on online privacy/NSA n all that stuff.
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Now that the thread's theme is more general, here are a couple videos from the last chaos conference (30th conf or "30c3") that I really liked (they're all by jacob applebaum[founder and/or runner of the TOR project], but there were many other great talks at that conference, but outside of his or julian assange's and glenn greenwald's, the rest I liked but only 'got' half of what they were presenting as they're outside my arenas lol):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU ["To protect and infect"]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJNxbpbHA-I ["The TOR network"]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzbeETRAjN4 ["you broke the internet; we're making a GNU one"]
(^these 3 are all on the general themes of data privacy, free/open/gnu+gpl/"freedom of digital speech" ideology)
(edit: that last talk wasn't from 30c3)
 
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rickolasnice said:
This one (Just a guy saying consciousness is a product of the brain)

http://www.ted.com/talks/john_searle_our_shared_condition_consciousness
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I got a kick out of the vsauce "leanback" (a short youtube playlist) on what is consciousness?
[edit: that link goes to the (very cool) 7min vsauce clip of 'what is consciousness?', but it'll give you link towards end of video for it's 'leanback' which is short collection of his recommended clips on various, random consciousness-themed youtubes (that aren't vsauce)]
 
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I guess this is one of the 'TED's best' "docu's". I fucking love this one, have seen it like 4 or 5 times now.. teh very idea of a new type of reactor, that can utilize the waste from spent uranium from our current reactors would be, in bill gates' words, a 'miracle'. Fantastic vid tho, 2 thumbs up :)

[edited to ad: Trivial sidenote but, damn I find bill to be a fantastic orator/presenter!!]

[edit#2: really cool parts @14min and ~19min, if uninterested in watching whole vid :) ]
 
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^cannot believe I haven't seen this yet, have been meaning to for a while. Interesting tidbit: when bill gates did a reddit ama ("ask me anything"), a redditor asked him how he felt about his portrayal in that docu, to which he replied (paraphrase) "it was a pretty accurate portrayal"
I've seen some clips from it, f'ing love that scene w/ "you don't get it steve- that doesn't matter"
 
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