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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
http://www.ted.com
TED is a small
nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in
1984) as a conference bringing together people from three
worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
The annual conferences in Long Beach and Oxford bring
together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who
are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
TED Information
(PDF)
TED - Dan Pink: once a speechwriter for Al Gore, is now
a career analyst beginning a revolution in the workplaces of the
world.
TED
- Mike Rowe: Mike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells
some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his
insights and observations about the nature of hard work, and how it’s
been unjustifiably degraded in society today.
TED - Dan Ariely: Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the
author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and
his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to
show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions
TED - Laurie Santos: Laurie Santos runs the
Comparative Cognition Laboratory (CapLab) at Yale, where she and
collaborators across departments (from psychology to primatology
to neurobiology) explore the evolutionary origins of the
human mind by studying lemurs, capuchin monkeys and
other primates. The twist: Santos looks not only for positive
humanlike traits, like tool-using and altruism, but irrational
ones, like biased decisionmaking.
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