Monday, August 10, 2009

More From The Amazing TED

I continue to be amazed and delighted with TED.com.
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
TED's lectures are free to watch. Some examples of the intellectual firepower arrayed on TED:

In Talks, Cary Mullis - the Nobel prize winner for groundbreaking DNA research talks about a radical and ingenious cure he has developed for bacterial infections. I enjoyed his book "Dancing Naked In The Mind Field".

In Theme " Medicine Without Borders", Dr. Seyi Oyesola - the inventor of the Hospital in a Box - tours a hospital in Nigeria and talks about why doctors move away and never come back.

And there's so much more. I've linked to TED videos before: Here's Qi Zhang playing Prokofiev on the Yahama Electone Stagea.