Entertainment For Lively Minds
TED Talks & Do Lectures
Posted by hermon hermit on 11 October 2009 - 2:32pm.
Since I can only find a couple of passing references to the TED talks on the blog, I thought it's worth flagging up what a stimulating resource these presentations on a wide range of topics are, see
And spending less that 20 minutes of your life watching Ken Robinson entertain on creativity and education is a good place to start...
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
While it is manly spoken word, there's some music here including Eddi Reader and Rokia Traore:
And the UK's own version, the Do Lectures, founded by UK sportswear company Howies can be found at the link below - the 2009 talks are due to go on line in the next couple of weeks.
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The Ken Robinson talk
has changed my life just a little bit. I used to watch all the TED talks, but they started to get backed up in iTunes, so now I just dip in and watch the ones I fancy. However, the best of them are very good indeed.
I was unaware of these
- only watched the Ken R one so far, but they look excellent - many thanks, Hermon
Crows
I've been meaning to start watching these lectures for over a year, when a colleague told me about TED. Apparently the one about crows is astounding. Anyone seen it?
The crows one was astounding
A colleague introduced me to these about a year ago, and I have watched quite a few. The Willard Wigan talk is great as well...
I am led to believe that the science behind the crows one was discredited though..I think he had been training the crows or something like that...
Incidentally, here is a spreadsheet of all the TED talks..
http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYlXg&toomany=tr...
The Do lectures always look interesting..There is also something called Interesting http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/interesting2009/
I am trying to convince work to stump up the money for me to go to next years Do lectures...