ONE DAY, YOU, LIKE ME, WILL DISCOVER TEDTALKS, and, just like me when I was you, you won't know where to begin. If I were you, and you were me, I'd start with these:
- Ze Frank: What's so funny about the Web? (2/04)
- Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature (2/05)
- Scott McCloud: Understanding comics (2/05)
- Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen (2/06)
- Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind (3/07)
- Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (3/07)
- Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat (12/07)
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: Learning from past presidents in moments of crisis (2/08)
- John Hodgman: A brief digression on matters of lost time (2/08)
- Paula Scher: Great design is serious (not solemn) (5/08)
- Jennifer 8. Lee: Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of American Chinese food (7/08)
- Ueli Gegenschatz: Fulfilling the dream of flight in a high-tech wingsuit (2/09)
- Elizabeth Gilbert: A different way to think about creative genius (2/09)
- Eric Lewis: Striking chords to rock the jazz world (2/09)
- Dan Ariely: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes) (3/09)
- Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead (03/11)
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