Douglas Adams: Parrots, the universe and everything. Monkee Design - Industrial Design Blog/ Student Resource - Top 5 TED Talks For Industrial Designers. 8 math talks to blow your mind. Mathematics gets down to work in these talks, breathing life and logic into everyday problems.
Prepare for math puzzlers both solved and unsolvable, and even some still waiting for solutions. Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs When Ron Eglash first saw an aerial photo of an African village, he couldn’t rest until he knew — were the fractals in the layout of the village a coincidence, or were the forces of mathematics and culture colliding in unexpected ways? Here, he tells of his travels around the continent in search of an answer. How big is infinity? There are more whole numbers than there are even numbers … right? Arthur Benjamin does “Mathemagic” A whole team of calculators is no match for Arthur Benjamin, as he does astounding mental math in the blink of an eye.
Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music What makes a piece of music beautiful? Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe? 100 Websites You Should Know and Use. Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword.
Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Culture My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life By Kylie Dunn What do you get when you cross a 39-year-old perfectionist with 54 TED Talks and far more honesty than any person probably needs to experience?
Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Culture. Shortest TED talk ever. The most watched and most highly-rated TED talks at the moment. Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes.
11 Goal Hacks: How to Achieve Anything. Goal-setting research on fantasising, visualisation, goal commitment, procrastination, the dark side of goal-setting and more… We’re all familiar with the nuts and bolts of goal-setting.
We should set specific, challenging goals, use rewards, record progress and make public commitments (if you’re not familiar with these then check out this article on how to reach life goals). So how come we still fail? This psychological research suggests why and what mindsets should help us reach our goals. 1. The biggest enemy of any goal is excessive positive fantasising. 2. The reason we don’t achieve our goals is lack of commitment. One powerful psychological technique to increase commitment is mental contrasting. Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity. Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp.
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The 10 most popular TED-Ed lessons so far. Culture A look at OKCupid’s algorithm: Getting personal with TED-Ed for Valentine’s Day How, exactly, does online dating work?
In this perfect-for-Valentine’s-Day TED-Ed lesson, OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder walks you through how the dating website does its matching — by using a carefully-honed algorithm to create a compatibility rating for two potential daters. In this fascinating video, Rudder shares how the site lets daters decide which factors are […] Health Seeds for healthy cells, candy for cancer: The stop motion tricks behind this TED-Ed lesson Making this TED-Ed video required (a) a lot of knitting and (b) a ton of boxes of Nerds. Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species? Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes. Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are.
John Kounios: The neuroscience behind epiphanies. Michael Pollan: A plant's-eye view. Kamal Meattle on how to grow fresh air. Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music. James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud.