Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species? Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action. Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work. Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career. Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
Theo Jansen creates new creatures. Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate. James Surowiecki: When social media became news. Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives. Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived. Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to lunch. Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen. Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music. Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library. Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing. Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0.
Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift. TED-Photography. TED: Ideas worth spreading.
The 10 Best TED Talks of 2011. Watching videos online is usually considered fun, but generally a waste of time.
Not so with TED videos, which are uniformly interesting, educational, inspiring, and enjoyable. If you haven't spent much time (or any) checking out TED videos, you should – and to help with that, I've compiled what seem to be the very best 10 TED videos of 2011. TED - Education. Niet TED-lezingen. Bjorn Lomborg sets global priorities. Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce.
Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow. David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence. Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation. Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity. Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree. Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome. Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work. Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
Candy Chang: Before I die I want to... Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers. Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity. Ursus Wehrli tidies up art. Chris Bliss: Comedy is translation. Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla.