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• March 20, 2010

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 420
  Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse on TED A globally renowned scholar and author, Jared Diamond finds answers to the massive “Why?”s in so-vast-you-don’t-notice patterns in history. His bestselling and Pulitzer-winning book Guns, Germs and Steel looks at the reasons history turned out the way it did ...
  3 hours ago

• A NEW TRAFFIC SIGN: TAKE TURNS…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 146
  Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of "Stop" and "Yield" -- and asks drivers to be polite.
  15 hours ago

• Friday’s Five: TED Talks

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 170
  I think TED Talks are the coolest thing ever. I used to watch the videos but lately I subscribed to the podcast and have been listening to them in the car. Here are my favorite five this week: Similar Read More......( read more )
  1 day ago

• PHYSICS IS FUN TO IMAGINE…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 146
  In this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms theyre made of. This accessible, enchanting conversation in physics reveals a teeming nano-world thats just plain fun to imagine.
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• Rational decision making is a myth. The art of irrational decision making.

  
  heartharmony.com.au — Authority: 114
  One of my favourite debates over the years has been with people who with hand over their heart tell me how to improve my decision making – or to put it another way,  how to become more rational and logical and therefore make more effective decisions. What neuro-psychologists and other researchers of the mind are ...
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• IN THE INTERNET AGE, DANCE EVOLVES…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 146
  The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a preview of Jon Chu’s upcoming Web series, this astonishing troupe show off their superpowers.
  2 days ago

• HOW I FELL IN LOVE WITH A FISH…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 146
  Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodies honeymoon hes enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a ...
  3 days ago

• Geo-medicine: Your health may depends on where you live

  
  Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog — Authority: 552
  Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but its not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it "geo-medicine." ...
  3 days ago

• TED Talk: How Chef Dan Barber Fell in Love With a Fish

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 468
  My boyfriend is really into good podcasts and came home the other night insisting that I watch this .  And he was right, Dan Barber gives a charming and very insightful talk about sustainable fishing.  Check it out:
  4 days ago

• PLUG INTO YOUR HARD-WIRED HAPPINESS…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 146
  Srikumar Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for happiness. At Columbia University, he teaches us how to break free of the "Id be happy if ..." mental model, and embrace our hard-wired happiness.
  4 days ago

• TED Talks: Dan Pink & the Science of Motivation

  
  Thanks For Playing — Authority: 417
  Missed #ideas10 ? Me, too. But we can still get some Dan Pink goodness, thanks to TED Talks:
  5 days ago

• TED Talks: Do What You Love

  
  DFJ Blog — Authority: 114
  It’s all about the hustle … Do What You Love   Technorati Tags: video , TED Talks , inspiration , Web 2.0 Related posts: Transform, by Zack Arias
  5 days ago

• A CURIOUS BOY…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 146
  James Camerons big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits "Aliens," "The Terminator," ...
  5 days ago

• Putting raw data on the web

  
  Heidi Allen online — Authority: 111
  Something close to my heart – sharing of information. This TED talk by Tim Berners Lee shows the benefits of sharing data on the web – for clinicians and researchers this is a big deal, publication of experiments in top journals can result in major funding and raw data is often closely guarded.But…when data is ...
  5 days ago

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  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 146
  
  6 days ago

• THE MAGIC OF THE PLACEBO…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 146
  Sugar pills, injections of nothing -- studies show that, more often than youd expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know somethings not real, you can still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is not suitable for viewers who are disturbed ...
  1 week ago

• TED Talks: The magic of the placebo

  
  Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4 — Authority: 125
  The placebo effect is perhaps my favorite. That the more “authentic” a pill appears to be, the more effective the placebo effect is my favorite quality about it.
  1 week ago

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  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 146
  
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• RECOMMENDED TED TALK: Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 412
  In this TED presentation, Chef Dan Barber discusses keeping fish on the menu, fish farming, and sustainability. He describes a fish farm in Spain that doesn’t need to feed its fish and that measures its success on the health of its predators. Basically, a fish farm that’s also a bird sanctuary. More on the ...
  1 week ago

• The Future of Food

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 112
  While some chefs are willing to (illegally) serve meals that feature endangered species like whales, chefs like Dan Barber of Blue Hill in New York are changing the world for the good with their cooking and their ideas. Dan was...
  1 week ago

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