Robert Fischell on medical inventing. "Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes: redesigning a portable device that treats migraines, finding new cures for clinical depression and reforming the medical malpractice …
The power and beauty of organic design. Ross Lovegrove TED Talk
Interesting ideas, but I think that this guy needs some professional counseling, especially given his reaction to an entirely acceptable response from Samsung Executives who gave him blank stares at his ideas for how to compete with Apple. Or at the …
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Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk
Sir Ken Robinson argues in his TED Talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" that the industrial assembly line approach to our current educational system kills creativity. Our educational system was devised in the 1800s and deeply influenced by the …
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Letting Go of God (an excerpt). Julia Sweeny TED Talk
Some of this presentation was funny. Other parts she definitely misrepresents religion, experience with God, and Mormonism. That wasn't funny. As if what this world needs is more misunderstanding instead of more understanding. For example, I was …
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When it comes to tech, simplicity sells. David Pogue TED Talk
Compelling ideas. What if academic scholarship adopted these design principles? What would the implications be (pros and cons)? What would it look like? For example, if scholarship had more "white space" like the Google home page, what would that …
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A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren. Dan Dennett TED Talk
This was not a "scientific" rebuttal to Rick Warren, though it was definitely secular. It was rather the attempt at a rebuttal by someone who would call himself a scientist. There was nothing scientific about the rebuttal; only an offended …
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