Best TED talks

• Anupam Mishra, The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
• Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify
• Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle
• Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities
• Ueli Gegenschatz soars in a wingsuit
• Jacqueline Novogratz invests in ending poverty
• Jacqueline Novogratz on patient capitalism
• Peter Eigen on exposing corruption
• Lawrence Lessig on the need for Creative Commons licenses
• Larry Lessig says the law is strangling creativity
• Chip Conley measuring what makes life worthwhile
• Matt Ridley when ideas have sex
• Nic Marks on the Happy Planet Index
• Michael Pawlyn - Using nature's genius in architecture
• Anil Seth - your brain hallucinates your concious reality

Other good talks

• Powerful story about the importance of truth.
• NASA composite video; 20 years of seasonal changes.
• Minute Physics: maximum mass/energy conversion is 42%
• The Really Big Questions
• RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
• Taxpayer Receipt
• The History of Debt History is about debt, not money.
• The Secret Document That Transformed China
• Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America, Part 1
• David Brin on the future
• Steven Pinker on the decline of violence
• Diane Rehm: fifty years after The Feminine Mystique
• Excellent discussion of why defunding/divesting police is necessary.
• A sensible alternative to GDP
• Swearing

Other stuff

• Robot folding towels; R. Daneel Olivaw is a long way off
• International Space Station
• guide to NPR's top 100 SF and Fantasy books
• Oh the Places You'll Go at Burning Man
• IP for Hogwarts
• why some men are not aware of sexual harassment of women
• why otherwise intelligent people can be so wrong
• Don't need "dark matter"; just do general relativty right!

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