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. It was a grueling task, combing through the cream of the crop on the TED site, but somebody had to do it. Some of the talks may have been filmed prior to 2011 but all of the talks here were posted in 2011. How I Became 100 Artists You don't need to be an artist to appreciate Shea Hembrey's "How I became 100 artists," but if you are it's even more amazing.
A Modern Take on Piano, Violin, Cello If music is more your thing, then the "Modern Take on Piano, Violin, Cello" entry from the Ahn Trio is a must-watch (and listen). 3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed Learning experiences like this, I could do without. How to Spot a Liar Your Favorites? TED - Education.
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.