I was going to write a post about how the current SL Stockholm Bus strike is causing me and millions of others a lot of hassle and how SL basically stole 270Kr from me for a bus-pass that is completely useless when there are no buses, but I decided not to focus on the negative and instead to write about one of my very favourite websites.
I’ve been a frequent visitor to www.ted.com for about a year and every time I find something new and interesting. According to TED…
“TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).”
All these talks are videoed and shown for free on ted.com. Watching TED is very inspirational and is perfect for those of you who like me are ever so slightly unhinged from reality (just slightly). No one at TED thinks that anything is imposable and your never quite sure if they are crackpots or geniuses. I like that.
Here’s a couple of suggestions to get you started…
Underwater Astonishments
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_gallo_shows_underwater_astonishments.html
What can you learn by putting a cockroach on a treadmill?
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evolution.html
The worlds excess in pictures…
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats.html
Why crows are your friends…
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
Being a big fan of “The Birds” I decided to watch “why crows are your friends” tonight as it was short. It was certainly short and snappy. Very amusing and very worrying. I just hope the crows are not as intelligent as the speaker seems to indicate they are or they may well wish to take over the world and “The Birds” may become a reality! Hopefully they don’t have an aggressive gene!