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To This Day for the Bullied and Beautiful

March 11, 2013

Beautiful, haunting, poetic “to this day” for the bullied and beautiful If you don’t see this here, click this link for the original on YouTube.

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20 Excellent Online TED Talks

August 24, 2012

TED — stands for Technology, Education, and Design — is a great resource. They recently posted their top 20 most watched talks. This is a great resource. I’m happy to see that I’ve already posted, previously, several of these on this blog. And this is a great list.  Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity [...]

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Go Ahead: Disagree. I dare you.

August 10, 2012

This one had me from the moment I saw the title: Dare to Disagree. I clicked, watched, and I love it. Good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best partners aren’t echo chambers — and how great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree. I’ve seen this [...]

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Will Success Spoil Ted.com?

May 9, 2012

I’ve watched dozens of TED talks online and never seen a bad one. TED stands for Technology, Education, and Design. It started in 1984. Since 1990 it was located in a conference center outside of Monterrey CA. Since 2001 it’s been curated mainly by Chris Anderson. Most TED conferences were amazing. I’ve never been, but [...]

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5 Good Posts for Friday July 1

July 1, 2011

I need your help: Can you suggest a way to give a theme and a title to a series of Friday posts listing good posts and recommended links I’ve seen from the last week? My title here is too dull. I’m not nearly good enough at titles. I don’t want to do this every Friday, [...]

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3 Things He Learned While the Plane Crashed

May 9, 2011

This is just five minutes. Just click and listen. There’s nothing I could add to it.   Or just click here to view the original, on TED.com

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The Beauty Of Data Visualization

November 29, 2010

I really like business charts. I think I always have. I’ve been in the business of communicating about numbers for a long time. And here is a master of it. David McCandless, a British journalist, also calls himself “a data detective,” and we see why in his Ted talk shown here, The Beauty Of Data [...]

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Robert Sapolsky: the Uniqueness of Humans

January 12, 2010

I’m so happy to see that the TED site, by far my favorite collection of online talks (I’ve posted several of them on this blog before), picked up this Robert Sapolsky talk. If you don’t see it here, or if you want to watch it in a higher quality HD mode, you can click here [...]

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