Especially Good TED Talks

The History of TED Talks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_talks

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Of the following TED Talks, the first "ten" are among my personal favorites.

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight | Video on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html 

Dan Barber's foie gras parable | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_parable.html

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

Michael Specter: The danger of science denial | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_specter_the_danger_of_science_denial.html

Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives | Video on TED.com

Doris Kearns Goodwin on learning from past presidents | Video on TED.com

Kevin Slavin: "How Algorithms Shape Our World." http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html

Slavin's talk is a great - though oddly angled - companion piece to 2010 Oscar winning Best Documentary, "Inside Job," which is freely available at https://vimeo.com/27292661

Jared Diamond on why societies collapse | Video on TED.com

Howard Rheingold on collaboration | Video on TED.com

A.J. Jacobs' year of living biblically | Video on TED.com

Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes | Video onTED.com

TED Blog | The hidden beauty of pollination: Louie Schwartzberg on ... http://blog.ted.com/2011/05/06/the-hidden-beauty-of-pollination-louie-schwartzberg-on-ted-com/ Islamic art historian Bahia Shehab: "A thousand times no"                          http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/islamic-art-historian-bahia-shehab.html

Shai Agassi's bold plan for electric cars | Video on TED.com

Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat | Video on TED.com

John Wooden on true success | Video on TED.com

Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom | Video on TED.com

Stewart Brand on the Long Now | Video on TED.com

Michael Pollan gives a plant's-eye view | Video on TED.com

Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science | Video on TED.com

Steven Pinker on the myth of violence | Video on TED.com

Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? | Video on TED.com

Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness | Video on TED.com

Robert Wright on optimism | Video on TED.com

Daniel Goleman on compassion | Video on TED.com

Paul Collier on the "bottom billion" | Video on TED.com

Brian Greene on string theory | Video on TED.com

Richard Preston on the giant trees | Video on TED.com

George Smoot on the design of the universe | Video on TED.com

Tim Brown on creativity and play | Video on TED.com

David Gallo shows underwater astonishments | Video on TED.com

Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes | Video on TED.com

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on apes | Video on TED.com

Billy Graham on technology and faith | Video on TED.com

David Gallo on life in the deep oceans | Video on TED.com

Paul MacCready on nature vs. humans | Video on TED.com

Keith Barry does brain magic | Video on TED.com

Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do | Video on TED.com

Michael Shermer on strange beliefs | Video on TED.com

Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows | Video on TED.com

Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk" | Video on TED.com

Jacqueline Novogratz on escaping poverty | Video on TED.com

Kamal Meattle on how to grow fresh air | Video on TED.com

Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy | Video on TED.com

Willie Smits restores a rainforest | Video on TED.com

Stuart Brown says play is more than fun | Video on TED.com

Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids | Video on TED.com

Richard Pyle dives the reef's Twilight Zone | Video on TED.com

Joe DeRisi solves medical mysteries | Video on TED.com

Woody Norris invents amazing things | Video on TED.com

Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht demo toys from the future | Video on TED.com

John Francis walks the Earth | Video on TED.com

Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats | Video on TED.com

Spencer Wells builds a family tree for humanity | Video on TED.com

Steven Pinker on language and thought | Video on TED.com

Bill Gross on new energy | Video on TED.com

Jane Goodall helps humans and animals live together | Video on TED.com

Eve Ensler: happiness in body and soul | Video on TED.com

Benjamin Wallace on the price of happiness | Video on TED.com

Ann Cooper talks school lunches | Video on TED.com

Jonathan Drori on what we think we know | Video on TED.com

Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice | Video on TED.com

Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves | Video on TED.com

Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic | Video on TED.com

Carl Honore praises slowness | Video on TED.com

Sherwin Nuland on electroshock therapy | Video on TED.com

Martin Rees asks: Is this our final century? | Video on TED.com

Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon | Video on TED.com

Paul Ewald asks, Can we domesticate germs? | Video on TED.com

Bill Stone explores the world's deepest caves | Video on TED.com

Noah Feldman says politics and religion are technologies | Video on TED.com

John Hodgman's brief digression | Video on TED.com

Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything | Video on TED.com

Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves | Video on TED.com

Michael Moschen juggles rhythm and motion | Video on TED.com

Kenichi Ebina's magic moves | Video on TED.com

Pilobolus perform "Symbiosis" | Video on TED.com

Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter | Video on TED.com

Nigerian Chris Abani muses on humanity | "We're most human when we're most ugly"TED.com

Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration | Video on TED.com

Yochai Benkler on Wikipedia and Linux as next stage of human organization. "The new open-source economics" | Video on TED.com

Craig Venter | Profile on TED.com

Bill Gross on new energy | Video on TED.com