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| Node: Title | Rating | Views/day | Added | ||
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 | Sugata Mitra: Indian kids teach themselves to use a computer | Can children learn how to use a computer without any help from adults? Sugata Mitra discusses his experiments in India and the surprising results. | No votes | 177 | 27 Aug 2008 |
 | Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows (TEDTalks) | Crows are so successful at survival because of their high intelligence and ability to learn from each other. Hacker/writer Joshua Klein explores whether crows could be trained to pick up garbage or other useful tasks. | No votes | 79 | 15 May 2008 |
 | Johnny Lee: Wii Remote hacks | "Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer." | 2433 | 11 Apr 2008 | |
 | Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe | Professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? | 1294 | 4 Apr 2008 | |
 | Neil Turok on the future of Africa | "They want to be the next Einstein" - speaking of bright and ambitious young Africans applying to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) he founded. | 167 | 20 Mar 2008 | |
 | Neurology: How it feels to have a stroke | Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. | 2771 | 13 Mar 2008 | |
 | Amazing creatures of the ocean - David Gallo | Only a small percentage of the ocean's marine life has been discovered. | 30 | 21 Jan 2008 | |
 | Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin's lightning math | "Mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head | 130 | 9 Jan 2008 | |
 | Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind | "Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind." | 156 | 23 Oct 2007 | |
 | Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence | Contrary to popular belief, our ancestors were far more violent than we are. Today we probably live in the most peaceful time of our species' existence. | 122 | 11 Sep 2007 | |
 | Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures | Dutch artist and engineer Theo Jansen uses plastic tubes and bottles to create amazangly lifelike creatures moved by windpower. | 703 | 6 Sep 2007 | |
 | Photosynth demo: multidimensional spaces | Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped | 673 | 4 Jun 2007 | |
 | TEDTalks: Tony Robbins on internal drive and motivation | Tony Robbins' inspirational talk on how to unlock your true potential. From TedTalks 2006. | 1303 | 16 Jan 2007 | |
 | Steven Levitt: the Freakonomics of inner-city gangs | TedTalks: Steven Levitt is an economics professor at the University of Chicago and the best-selling author of Freakonomics. | 85 | 16 Jan 2007 | |
 | TEDTalks: Malcolm Gladwell | Malcolm Gladwell (best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink) explains what every business can learn from spaghetti sauce, and why we have so much choice in food nowadays. | 92 | 16 Jan 2007 | |
 | Richard Dawkins on the Strangeness of Science | Mind-expanding talk that probes the limits of human understanding: Why can't we see atoms? Why can't we hear color? | 216 | 16 Jan 2007 | |
 | Al Gore on Climate Change (TedTalks) | A follow-up to Al Gore's famous "Inconvenient Truth" presentation. What can we do to avert the crisis of global climate change? | 31 | 16 Jan 2007 | |
 | Gapminder - no more boring data | TedTalks 2007. Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital | 320 | 14 Jan 2007 | |
 | Do schools today kill creativity? | Education guru Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. | 558 | 6 Jan 2007 | |
 | Jeff Han: Multi-Touch Interaction | TedTalks 2006: Jeff Han is a research scientist for NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the inventor of a Minority Report style "interface-free" touch-driven computer | 369 | 1 Aug 2006 |
