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Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons worth sharing
TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos.Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Mar 15, 2012 -
Allan Jones: A map of the brain
http://www.ted.com How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map.Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Jan 5, 2012 -
Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
http://www.ted.com Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness -- that is a marvelous fact -- but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses this simple question to give us a glimpse into how our brains create our sense of self.Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Dec 23, 2011 -
Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy
http://www.ted.com Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Nov 13, 2011 -
Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happiness
http://www.ted.com What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness.Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Oct 18, 2011 -
What we learned from 5 million books
http://www.ted.com Have you played with Google Labs' NGram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries.Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Oct 18, 2011 -
Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic"
http://www.ted.com In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it?Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Jan 18, 2011 -
Hans Rosling on global population growth
http://www.ted.com The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll see).Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Jan 12, 2011 -
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow
http://www.ted.com Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Jan 2, 2011 -
Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
http://www.ted.com People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments.Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Dec 27, 2010 -
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
http://www.ted.com In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.Collected in lektorlaursen's videos Nov 24, 2010
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lektorlaursen TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos.
Mar 15, 2012