An entertaining, animated analysis of how the education framework of the past is not serving us now.
Tim talks about working on stuff that matters, and how we need to tackle big challenges if we wish to improve ourselves, rather than racking up small, inconsequential victories.
Robert Newman, with humor and energy, brings to life a timeline of oil's impact on world politics, and where the world is headed past peak oil
Robinson makes a passionate case for the importance of education in the arts.
Awuah talks about the work he is doing in Africa on bringing higher education to students and the effect it is having on their sense of responsibility.
Tim and Shai talk about the economics and feasability of electric cars as compared to the status quo.
de Grey explains why human aging isn't such a stretch of the imagination. He looks at medicine from the perspective on engineering and repair rather than prevention, offering a more manageable list of problems we would have to solve to prolong life.
From the TED Summary: Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open their own.
Annie Leonard has created an entertaining video all about the life-cycle of all the stuff that we buy, use and discard in our lifetimes.
This music video by Sara McLaughlin is a few years old, but came up on Tim O'Reilly's Twitter Feed. A nice reminder along the lines of his theme of "Work on Stuff that Matters."
Saul tackles the challenge of climate change from an engineering point of view, and
shared how he calculated his own fair share of the planet's energy resources.
Dr Ornish, with dramatic trial data in hand, talks about the body's incredible ability to heal itself when we treat it properly.
Enriquez talks about the need to move away from a brute force approach to our harvesting and use of fossil fuels until we can transition away from them toward sustainable energy sources.
From a 2005 talk, Barnett talks about the systematic mistakes the US military stragegy is making, and what kind of reforms would be necessary to make the world truly secure.
From the TED Summary: Wofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifelong learning
Law professor, copyright policy scholar and cofounder of the Creative Commons, Lessig presents the case for why current copyright law makes no sense in the light of current culture and current technology.
Via the O'Reilly Radar. Clay discusses many of the concepts from his new book and explains why sitcoms are "cognitive heat sinks". transcript: http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
A positive look at the feasability of solving many of our large problems, national and international.
