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Been following Susan Cain's work for a while - this is a lovely TED presentation she gave in Feb.2012.
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In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.
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Fascinating account by Simon Lewis of his "descent" into non-consciousness and his subsequent return to it. Along the way (in an 18minute talk), Lewis discusses neuroplasticity, mental health, IQ, disability, and more.

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Worth pondering:
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At TEDxSiliconValley, Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more -- and more about each other -- than ever before. Drawing the audience into a philosophical discussion, Horowitz invites us to pay new attention to the basic philosophy -- the ethical principles -- behind the burst of invention remaking our world. Where's the moral operating system that allows us to make sense of it?
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TED talk video of Paula Scher's presentation on design, play, and seriousness. Interesting distinction between seriousness and solemnity: quotes from Russell Baker, "Washington DC is solemn, New York is serious" (hint: serious is good, solemn is pedestrian/ boring/ conventional)... ;-)
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Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she's done album covers, books, the Citibank logo ...) and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun.
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Wonderfully clear, concise summation of gov2.0, by David Cameron (British PM).

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Provocative, interesting talk by Johanna Blakley on copyright (absence thereof) in the fashion industry, and what that might mean for IP reform in other fields.
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Copyright law's grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry ... and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley. At TEDxUSC 2010, she talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion's free culture.
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Love this 2010 TED talk by Sugata Mitra on education: "Education is a self organising system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon..."

From the description on the TED page:
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Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
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Great video on information design:
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David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
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Fascinating:
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Today’s playlist is about way-new architecture — using organic forms and living, growing materials to bring fresh life into the buildings, homes and infrastructure we occupy. Magnus Larsson, for instance, has a bold plan to build in the Sahara desert sands using living bacteria:
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Great TED talk by Ethan Zuckerman about sharing atoms and bits (it's easier to get water bottled in Fiji - atoms - than it is to see a film from Fiji or to get news about the political scene in Fiji - bits) and about how we're creating "flocking" communities online which we should really be mixing up with some outside sources.

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Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know.
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Fascinating talk by Matt Ridley at Ted Global: how exchange - a kind of sexual exchange or promiscuity - helps ideas to spread, and in turn, how the spread of ideas turbo-charges development.

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Nice presentation by Ellen Dunham-Jones on retrofitting suburbia. "We need to retrofit the corridors" - so true. Let new urbanism do a do-over of arterials. "Restore the local ecology" - restore the original wetlands: hmm, that's what the City of Victoria should have done at the View St. and Vancouver St. intersection! Another idea: "eco-acre transfer." Possible problems: astro-turf and urban streetscapes but suburban parking ratios.

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Wise and entertaining lecture about how Aristotle still has lots to teach us.
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Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully out of practice. He leads a fun refresher, with TEDsters sparring over a recent Supreme Court case (PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin) whose outcome reveals the critical ingredient in justice.
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"We live in a competent universe, and we are surrounded by genius": Janine Benyus on revealing what we should understand and on biomimicry. "Imagine spring, imagine organizing spring."

Must-view video. See also AskNature.org

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TED talk by Tim Brown: "says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects - even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory 'design thinking.'"

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Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.
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Inspiring ~22min. TED presentation by Barry Schwartz, about planning and incentives, and individual virtue, and practical wisdom. It's interesting to watch & ponder this video side-by-side with Roger Scruton's article on architecture and urban planning (also bookmarked today).

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Hans Rosling answers 10 questions posed to him after his TED Talk. Almost as good as the TED Talk that inspired the questions, this too is a must-see presentation.

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An amazing presentation by Hans Rosling about world health & economic data, his site (gapminder.org), the "bottom billion," and ...well, blowing cliches about health and wealth out of the water. Also see Rosling's 10 answers to 10 questions video: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/ted-and-reddits-10-questions-to-hans-rosling/

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Really interesting, and borderline kooky (but therefore refreshing), talk on creativity/ the muse/ Genius, and strategies for dealing with same. Key: think of it as residing outside of yourself, as a "visitation," and in this way take the heat off yourself when you "fail" to deliver. But don't forget to show up - old-fashioned ideas about genius aren't an excuse for slacking off!
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Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.
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Excellent presentation by Alain de Botton, described as follows:
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[Botton] examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.
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Really worth watching/ listening to.

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