Over the last few days, I have been trapped in what I like to call, the 'TED loop'.
TED, if you have never heard of it before, is a global set of conferences, running annually since 1990. The basic concept is 'ideas worth spreading'. Brilliant people giving brilliant talks about everything and anything that is new and powerful and interesting. Things that should be changed, things that have just been invented, things that we believe true which are actually false and things we never thought about before, solutions to problems we don't know exist. The talks are uploaded online, which leads to my problem.
This place is a magical wonderland.
If I so choose, I can watch videos on, but not limited to:
The girl with twelve pairs of legs, here. And her talk on the power of adversity. And ten years earlier, her first talk at TED.
The girl who asked for school, here.
What's wrong with schools, here.
Statistics on the population, wealth, and how the difference between the third world and the western world doesn't really exist, here.
Can we change our personality with our posture, here.
Gangster gardening, here.
Ethical foie gras or a guy who just wants to 'give the geese what they want', here.
The brain in love, here.
Building green, here.
Try something new, here.
A world without oil, here.
Autism, types of minds, and what the world needs, here.
The first part of this one is excellent.
This one changed how I eat, in France at least.
Power of introverts, here.
Council of dads, here.
These are a few of my favourites, but let's be honest, by tomorrow I will have watched many many more. I am stuck in the TED loop.
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