TEDTalks: Ideas worth spreading

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Randomly looking around youtube, this video came up: [media=youtube]IRVdiHu1VCc&feature=channel_page"]Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs. Thinking it was pretty interesting, I clicked the user/uploader and found a bunch of other interesting videos. From the [:

Top 10 TEDTalks of all time (as of June 2008) http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10](http://www.ted.com/"[/media)

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If you haven’t seen vid #10, do yourself a favor and watch it, it’s only six minutes and hints at some of the possibilities of the future of gaming. Another vid that might be up your alley if you’re into gaming (which is pretty safe to assume): [media=youtube]mfv_hOFT1S4&feature=channel_page"]David Perry: Will videogames become better than life? For the comic book readers: [URL=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXYckRgsdjI&feature=channel_page”[/media].

Lots of cool talks that are mostly easily understandable and accessible and some of the speakers are surprisingly funny. There something for everyone on their channel, so go ahead and look around their youtube channel if you have a little time to kill and want to hear about enlightening ideas worth spreading.

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TED is really good. I’ve been following the website for over a year now. Love the talks by researchers. :lovin:

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TED talk is always great. I’d love to hear Paul Debevec give insights on how his research team at USC come up with such break through technologies in CG. A timeline of their progress over the years would be awesome too. I cna’t help but feel like Ted is like a watered down MENSA tree clubhouse though.

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What’s funny/sad is that most ppl don’t and prob wont know what this thread is, or click on it. On the up side, TED talk are so incredibly awesome. Good post.

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One of my favorite