Buying Happiness
Important things to know in a failing economy: Can happiness be bought? [via]
View Articlemoot At TED
An early review from Chris Poole’s TED session today. (He’s moot from 4chan.) The fact that he’s even there is one of the many reasons everyone loves TED. UPDATE: They posted a photo on the TED 2010...
View ArticleAgainst TED
Nathan Jurgenson asks “When did TED lose its edge?” What began as something spontaneous and unique has today become a parody of itself. What was exceptional and emergent in the realm of ideas has been...
View ArticleTED 2023
Peter Weyland at TED 2023. (Directed by Ridley Scott, presumably for Prometheus viral marketing. Still, pretty great.) [via]
View ArticleTED Makes Ideas Smaller
How TED makes ideas smaller. A TED talk, at this point, is the cultural equivalent of a patent: a private claim to a public concept. With the speaker, himself, becoming the manifestation of the idea....
View ArticleTEDxTeen
Top five TEDxTeen talks. Pay attention to these kids, people. Why? Consider how out of touch with the world your parents are.
View ArticleTED and Income Inequality
A TED talk you won’t find online: Nick Hanauer’s presentation on income inequality that attacks the idea that rich people create jobs. “Ideas worth spreading” indeed. [via] UPDATE: Someone put it...
View ArticleThe Great Porn Experiment
Gary Wilson’s TED talk on “The Great Porn Experiment.” Fun fact about studying the effects of internet porn: there’s no control group.
View Article➜ Best job titles at TED
Ten best job titles at TED Global 2012. These are just ten of the reasons I didn’t follow you back on Twitter. ★ Permalink
View Article➜ Morozov on TED culture
Evgeny Morozov does a fantastic takedown of a TED book while at the same time highlighting the problems with the new TED culture. Khanna does not really care about the details of policy. He is a...
View Article➜ I’ll be your visionary and you do the things I come up with
The Onion spoofs TED, hilarity ensues. ★ Permalink
View Article➜ TED hits one billion
TED has reached 1,000,000,000 views. To celebrate, they collected Ben Affleck’s favourite videos. ★ Permalink
View Article➜ Using social media to cover for lack of original thought
A new high point in the Onion Talks series: Using social media to cover for lack of original thought. ★ Permalink
View Article➜ TEDx and bad science
A letter to the TEDx community on booking speakers who promote bad science. We take this seriously. Presenting bad science on the TEDx stage is grounds for revoking your license. ★ Permalink
View Article➜ #FiveWordTEDTalks is my new favourite hashtag
Hashtag of note: #FiveWordTEDTalks. Some highlights: No pants is the new pants Unlock Your Brain With Goats Like Kickstarter but for Africa Being an innovator with six words Don’t blame me, blame...
View Article➜ Why are TED Talks so convincing?
Why do TED Talks seem so convincing? [via] The lesson to take away is probably not that presentation skills don’t matter in teaching. The study only looked at one concept of medium difficulty presented...
View Article➜ TED and the declining value of ideas
I reposted my last THIS column on Medium: TED and the declining value of ideas. Even more tragically, the sizable audience a TED talk brings its presenter has led to 18-minute aphorisms competing for...
View Article➜ All this talk about creativity is mostly horseshit
Pretty much everyone talking about “Creativity” is full of shit. These realizations took only a millisecond. What our correspondent also understood, sitting there in his basement bathtub, was that the...
View Article➜ We need to talk about TED
We need to talk about TED. A lot of people take TED very seriously, and might lend credence to specious ideas if stamped with TED credentials. “No” to placebo science and medicine. But … the...
View Article➜ TED’s half-baked ideas
TED: half-baked ideas worth spreading. TED’s lack of rigor in filtering out candidates and its emphasis on performance and inspiration has allowed the scientific equivalent of the Swift Boat Veterans...
View Article➜ Vice’s 20 best TED Talks
Vice identifies the 20 best TED Talks. What Life with a Slightly Larger Head Has Taught Me About Diversity ★ Permalink
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