The wonderful thing about this talk that I found blog-post worthy was the fact that the topic it is on is something that I have always found incredibly tedious, as is the case with most people I think and yet I found myself clued to the screen listening to Garik Israelian talk, feeling my sphere of understanding expanding by leaps and bounds. It really opened my mind up to the potential of what we can learn and the incredible exploration that is going on in our universe.
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Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions.
In a games related issue this makes me really rethink how I am going to structure the pricing for future products
I am so grateful to have witnessed this performance tonight.. My lord I have never seen passion personified like I do in Gustavo Dudamel, this is the first TED talk that when it ended I cheered and applauded with the audience. Do yourself a favour, quiet everything down, put this on the bigscreen and loud speakers and allow the spirit of this man and what his orchestra create wash over you and take your soul to heights that it has never seen before.
The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela’s life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez’ Danzón No. 2.
About Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra
The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra is the national high-school-age youth orchestra of El Sistema, made up of the best young musicians from throughout Venezuela. Gustavo Dudamel, himself a… Full bio and more links
Fantatic speaker talking about the most amazing stuff in our future. If we have a future that is.
Caught this talk from Bill Gates this week and although he may not be the most inspiring or poetic of speakers he is perhaps the most influential man in our lifetimes and that alone puts me in a state of awe to listen to. A man that can forever change the world perhaps more than any other single person alive has a mind that needs to be tapped to it’s fullest.
My Favorite TED Talk
Nov 11
For of all for any of you that haven’t heard of www.TED.com you need to make room in your life for these inspiring videos as they will truly enhance your life and enlarge your consciousness. Basically TED is a very very illustrious conference every year that brings together the most illustrious and respected minds in every single Technological, Entertainment and Design fields in the world.
Jill Bolte has since gone on to do Opra and a bunch of other shows but TED is so much more genuine. Anyways the TED talk I want to share with you today is this one:
http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/JillBolteTaylor_2008-embed_high.flv
I remember when I first watched this speech, my brother and father were in the next room doing some tile work and I was standing in my brothers kitchen playing this on his TV while doing some dishes, standing there listening. The last 5 minutes I just stood in the kitchen watching Jill, dripping plate in hand slowly soaking the floor infront of me, *drip* *drip* *drip* . When she beautifully annunciated her last line I just began crying, unable to disconnect myself from the immense power of her words near the end, the tears just flowing down my cheeks… *drip* *drip* *drip*
