Best of TED (Part 3)
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design and is an annual conference in California. There a lot of scientist, engineers, politicians, entrepreneurs meet. In the talks some of them present their current work or the current state of their field. The talks cover a wide variety of topics.
On the homepage ted.com some of the talks are available as videos. Every weekday a new video is added from some previous conference. The talks are always very interesting, and one learns quite a lot.
So far I have watched about three quarters of the videos that have been published. Most of the talks are really good and worth watching. However, I have compiled a list of talks I liked best so far.
This list reflects my personal opinion and is not an official list published by TED.
The ratings under the videos are the ratings that have been given by the community on the TED-homepage. Even though I generally agree with those ratings, they do not necessarily reflect my opinion.
The list is in no particular order, so it is not a statement, whether a talk is on top of the list or the bottom.
For those who want to see more TED-talks, the full list of videos is available under: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/list.
I will continue watching the remaining videos and collecting the best of those talks. So when I have gathered the 50 talks, I will publish them as well. This, however, might take a while.
Here is the lists for Best Of TED (Part 1) and Best Of TED (Part 2).
Geek Tip: If this list is saved on a local computer, one can remove the HTML-code of the videos already seen and statistics of the average and total length of the videos will only be calculated for all remaining videos. This is particularly useful when copying the other lists in one list and have the total length of all remaining videos calculated.
Video-Statistics:
David's Best of TED-List:
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TEDGlobal 2009
Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable09:31 Posted: Aug 2009
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TEDGlobal 2009
Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action17:42 Posted: Aug 2009
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle14:54 Posted: Jun 2009
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Dean Ornish on healing
- 16:49 Posted: Oct 2008
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Robert Lang folds way-new origami
- 15:59 Posted: Jul 2008
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James Nachtwey's searing pictures of war
- 21:56 Posted: Apr 2007
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TED@State
Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset19:56 Posted: Aug 2009
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Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn
- 17:09 Posted: Oct 2007
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TEDGlobal 2009
William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind05:59 Posted: Sep 2009
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TEDGlobal 2009
Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness19:51 Posted: Sep 2009
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TED2010
Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system18:21 Posted: Feb 2010
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Harvard University
JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure20:58 Posted: Jan 2010
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TEDIndia 2009
Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?02:42 Posted: Jan 2010
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Carnegie Mellon University
Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams76:27 Posted: Jan 2010
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Stanford University
Steve Jobs: How to live before you die15:04 Posted: Dec 2009
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EG 2008
Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles11:49 Posted: Dec 2009
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TEDGlobal 2009
Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe09:25 Posted: Nov 2009
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Bowery Poetry Club
Taylor Mali: What teachers make03:02 Posted: Jan 2010
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TED2010
Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish19:02 Posted: Mar 2010
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TED2010
Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide05:33 Posted: Mar 2010
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TED2010
James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy17:08 Posted: Mar 2010
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World Science Festival
Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music03:04 Posted: Feb 2010
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TED2010
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world20:03 Posted: Mar 2010
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TEDGlobal 2009
Bertrand Piccard's solar-powered adventure17:46 Posted: Jan 2010
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TEDxBoston
George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp16:16 Posted: Feb 2010
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TEDMED 2009
Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest20:49 Posted: Mar 2010
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University of Sydney
Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 1)28:57 Posted: Feb 2010
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University of Sydney
Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 2)24:21 Posted: Jan 2010
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TED2010
Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team06:51 Posted: Apr 2010
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TED2010
Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world06:02 Posted: Apr 2010
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TED2010
Derek Sivers: How to start a movement03:09 Posted: Apr 2010
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TED2010
Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids08:12 Posted: Apr 2010
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TED2010
Michael Specter: The danger of science denial19:01 Posted: Apr 2010
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TED2010
Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks)05:59 Posted: Apr 2010
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Mission Blue Voyage
Roz Savage: Why I'm rowing across the Pacific18:35 Posted: Apr 2010
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Mission Blue Voyage
Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world17:19 Posted: Apr 2010
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TEDxNASA
Joel Levine: Why we need to go back to Mars16:14 Posted: Mar 2010
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TEDIndia 2009
Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when15:50 Posted: Nov 2009
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TEDxNYED
Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover11:39 Posted: May 2010
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TED2010
Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria?16:58 Posted: May 2010
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TED2010
William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer?20:02 Posted: May 2010
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University of California
Douglas Adams: Parrots, the universe and everything87:36 Posted: Mar 2010
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TEDxUSC
David Logan on tribal leadership16:39 Posted: Oct 2009
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TED2007
James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud17:19 Posted: Apr 2010
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TEDGlobal 2009
Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future09:54 Posted: Dec 2009
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TED2010
Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV -- let's get rational19:14 Posted: Apr 2010
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TED2010
John Underkoffler points to the future of UI15:22 Posted: Jun 2010
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TEDIndia 2009
Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media04:26 Posted: Dec 2009
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TEDGlobal 2010
Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex16:26 Posted: Jul 2010
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TED@Cannes
Hans Rosling on global population growth10:04 Posted: Jul 2010
