Things to make you say Hmmm (TED.com etc)
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TED Talks are some of the best speeches I watch. The speakers are innovators and leaders, dreamers and doers. The talks are recorded at the annual TED Conference and many of them are available to download free from ted.com . Recently, I discovered one of the reasons the speeches are so good… TED’s organisers send upcoming speakers a stone tablet, engraved with the ‘TED Commandments”. Amy Tan in her TED Talk described the arrival of the TED Commandments as “something that creates a near-death experience; but near-death is good for creativity…”.
The TED Commandments – rules every speaker needs to know
Brainz
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, better known as Adele, is an English recording artist and song writer. The self proclaimed "heartbroken soul" singer was born on May 5, 1988 in Tottenham, London, England, and was raised by her single mother who worked as a masseuse and made furniture. Adele's father...
This lively RSAnimate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us - YouTube
Critical & Creative Education
13 Top-Earning Dead Celebrities"
You'd think a person would have to work pretty hard to make more than $5 million a year. But maybe not. The people on this list are making more money in one year than most of us will see in a lifetime -- and they're not even alive to enjoy it! Each year, Forbes magazine compiles data on the top-earning dead celebrities.
Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street | Magazine
Today Wall Street is ruled by thousands of little algorithms, and they've created a new market—volatile, unpredictable, and impossible for humans to comprehend. Photo: Mauricio Alejo Last spring , Dow Jones launched a new service called Lexicon, which sends real-time financial news to professional investors. This in itself is not surprising. The company behind The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires made its name by publishing the kind of news that moves the stock market. But many of the professional investors subscribing to Lexicon aren’t human—they’re algorithms, the lines of code that govern an increasing amount of global trading activity—and they don’t read news the way humans do.
OpenSecrets Blog Apr 27 - In an era when Republicans and Democrats can agree on almost nothing, one issue in the last three months has been providing common ground: rewriting the rules of the Internet. Privacy and free speech advocates have unleashed a groundswell of outrage as they've rushed to rally the public against the measures. But corporate backers of the proposals have fought back hard. According to an OpenSecrets.org analysis of the most recent lobbying disclosure information, five of the top ten bills that have been lobbied the most intensely so far this year are Internet-related, and most have bipartisan and industry backing. Major cash is being laid out to push their passage.
Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting
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