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19 December 2009
10 TEDTalks to download for the holidays
Winter is sweeping into the Northern Hemisphere! For many, this will be a season for storytelling and ritual, for reconnecting with family, for taking time off work, for just staying indoors and keeping warm … and for getting stranded at airports.
Whatever your winter tradition, TED wants to wish you a heartfelt “Happy Holidays!” with this list of 10 great TEDTalks to warm your hearth — and to keep at-the-ready on your laptop or iPhone for those times when the only other options are mass-market paperbacks.
- Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy >>
- Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. west — the myths that mystify >>
- Evelyn Glennie: Learn how to listen >>
- Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors >>
- Magnus Larsson: Turning sand dunes into architecture >>
- Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see >>
- Robert Thurman: Expanding your circle of compassion >>
- James Forbes: Compassion at the dinner table >>
- Daniel Pink: The surprising science of motivation >>
- Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off >>
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Philipp Böing
Dec 21 2009these are the direct download links, you can download the talks as a podcast / mp3 on the talk’s page (search).
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Vartancia Tracy
Dec 21 2009Topics Sound interesting. Let me start by dowloading the 1st to see what we have inside.
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gary fair
Dec 22 2009holiday giving? before funding any charity. please visit. reform march of dimes.org (learn how charities misspend research dollars) & mrmcmed.org, read what the march of dimes spends 30 million dollars a year on, thank you for your time. ps, animal research has NEVER been validated. “work on prevention of polio was LONG DELAYED by an erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on MISLEADING experimental models of the disease in monkeys” albert sabin, m.d., during a 1984 house subcommittee. (cancer) “if curing mouse cancers were enough. we would have cured cancer IN THE 60S” dr.donald morton, john wayne cancer institute.
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gary fair
Dec 22 2009holiday giving? before funding any charity. please visit. reform march of dimes.org (learn how charities misspend research dollars) & mrmcmed.org, read what the march of dimes spends 30 million dollars a year on, thank you for your time. ps, animal research has NEVER been validated. “work on prevention of polio was LONG DELAYED by an erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on MISLEADING experimental models of the disease in monkeys” albert sabin, m.d., during a 1984 house subcommittee. (cancer) “if curing mouse cancers were enough. we would have cured cancer IN THE 60S” dr.donald morton, john wayne cancer institute.
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gary fair
Dec 22 2009holiday giving? before funding any charity. please visit. reform march of dimes.org (learn how charities misspend research dollars) & mrmcmed.org, read what the march of dimes spends 30 million dollars a year on, thank you for your time. ps, animal research has NEVER been validated. “work on prevention of polio was LONG DELAYED by an erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on MISLEADING experimental models of the disease in monkeys” albert sabin, m.d., during a 1984 house subcommittee. (cancer) “if curing mouse cancers were enough. we would have cured cancer IN THE 60S” dr.donald morton, john wayne cancer institute.
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gary fair
Dec 22 2009holiday giving? before funding any charity. please visit. reform march of dimes.org (learn how charities misspend research dollars) & mrmcmed.org, read what the march of dimes spends 30 million dollars a year on, thank you for your time. ps, animal research has NEVER been validated. “work on prevention of polio was LONG DELAYED by an erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on MISLEADING experimental models of the disease in monkeys” albert sabin, m.d., during a 1984 house subcommittee. (cancer) “if curing mouse cancers were enough. we would have cured cancer IN THE 60S” dr.donald morton, john wayne cancer institute.
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gary fair
Dec 22 2009holiday giving? before funding any charity. please visit. reform march of dimes.org (learn how charities misspend research dollars) & mrmcmed.org, read what the march of dimes spends 30 million dollars a year on, thank you for your time. ps, animal research has NEVER been validated. “work on prevention of polio was LONG DELAYED by an erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on MISLEADING experimental models of the disease in monkeys” albert sabin, m.d., during a 1984 house subcommittee. (cancer) “if curing mouse cancers were enough. we would have cured cancer IN THE 60S” dr.donald morton, john wayne cancer institute.
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gary fair
Dec 22 2009holiday giving? before funding any charity. please visit. reform march of dimes.org (learn how charities misspend research dollars) & mrmcmed.org, read what the march of dimes spends 30 million dollars a year on, thank you for your time. ps, animal research has NEVER been validated. “work on prevention of polio was LONG DELAYED by an erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on MISLEADING experimental models of the disease in monkeys” albert sabin, m.d., during a 1984 house subcommittee. (cancer) “if curing mouse cancers were enough. we would have cured cancer IN THE 60S” dr.donald morton, john wayne cancer institute.
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gary fair
Dec 22 2009holiday giving? before funding any charity. please visit. reform march of dimes.org (learn how charities misspend research dollars) & mrmcmed.org, read what the march of dimes spends 30 million dollars a year on, thank you for your time. ps, animal research has NEVER been validated. “work on prevention of polio was LONG DELAYED by an erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on MISLEADING experimental models of the disease in monkeys” albert sabin, m.d., during a 1984 house subcommittee. (cancer) “if curing mouse cancers were enough. we would have cured cancer IN THE 60S” dr.donald morton, john wayne cancer institute.
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