Phuc Tran is the owner of Tsunami Tattoo in Portland, Maine. He’s also a Classicist instructor at the Waynflete School. That’s a weird combination, but whatever, because he delivers one of the better TED Talks I’ve ever watched. “I hate it when grammar is used to belittle others,” he says. THIS x 1000. [Thanks, Angela!]
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Watch the miraculous journey of infant sea turtles as these tiny animals run the gauntlet of predators and harsh conditions. Then, in numbers, see how human behavior has made their tough lives even more challenging. The lesson is don’t be jerks to sea turtles dude. Lesson by Scott Gass as part of TED, animation by [...]
Here’s the last four years of mobile patent wars in a handy infographic created by filmmaker Kirby Ferguson of Everything Is A Remix fame at TEDGlobal 2012. The only thing that is easy to decipher is that Apple is involved with a lot of these battles. This seems particularly relevant given RIM’s dreadful quarterly numbers. There’s a better chance someone will [...]
Not long ago, extremely wealthy venture capitalist Nick Hanauer delivered a TED Talk on how taxing the rich actually creates jobs instead of destroying jobs, which has become a Republican talking point. TED refused to air his talk because they claimed it was too political. Hanauer complained. TED stands by its decision, but has relented [...]
The creator of PostSecret, Frank Warren, swung by TED to share some of the nearly half-million secrets that strangers have mailed to him on a postcard. Kind of baffling when you think about it, but I think there’s something about the illicit anonymity of PostSecret that makes it so alluring. Everybody loves telling a secret, especially when you [...]
Seth MacFarlane seems like a good guy. Hell, he gets a pass in my book for as long as he wants, simply for trying to make a sequel to Carl Sagan’s Cosmos with Neil DeGrasse Tyson as the host. With that said, ugh, can we all agree for a moment that Seth MacFarlane is kind [...]
The goal of TED-Ed is to pair educators and animators together in an effort to create a series of lesson-based animated shorts aimed at teachers and high school students. Like this one on symbioses, for example. The Next Web has more info about plans for TED-Ed. The program officially launches next month, and they’re already soliciting reel [...]
Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes the government can be run like the Internet — and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments and their neighbors. This is one of the more interesting TED Talks I’ve listened to in a long, long time. More than [...]
As part of the Prometheus viral campaign, here’s a TEDTalk from the future by Peter Weyland, as played by Guy Pearce. The talk itself isn’t really all that interesting, but it does set up the movie universe nicely — or perhaps, rather, the themes of the movie. About the talk: Peter Weyland has been a [...]
Having a hard time disagreeing or summing it up better than John Struan, when he writes, “this presentation by Paul Nicklen is possibly the best TED talk I’ve watched – – funny, fascinating, well-delivered, and supported by tremendous photographs. Among the interesting factoids: The ice he regularly dove in was so cold that he typically vomited [...]
