Your favourite TED.com video

[Shakermaker]

For the uninitiated: TED.com is a website featuring experts in all kinds of fields holding The Talk of Their Life in under 20 minutes. The subjects range from ant colonies to the LHC and from Long Tail to commercial space travel. My personal fav is Hans Rosling debunking some myths about popular statistics. He comments on stats like a sports commentator and offers some fresh views about third world cliches. Also worth watching is Burt Rutan's talk on space travel, if only to see how strict TED.com's anti-politics policy is. It's (mostly) pure science.

Post your favourites!

 

[Dekstar]

I've always found Jill Bolte Taylor's video to be extremely interesting. It's about her stroke.

Either that or the one about crows and their cleverness.
EDIT: And another one, by Clifford Stoll purely for his anecdotes and weirdness.

 

[mindless_moder]

George Dyson on the birth of computers : http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/george_dyson_at_the_birth_of_the_computer.html

Kwabena Boahen on making computers that work like brains : http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kwabena_boahen_on_a_computer_that_works_like_the_brain.html

 

[Polaris]

TED talks are best videos on YouTube. I love many of them but especially this one.

Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qF26MbYgOA

He is my new avatar too. ♥

 

[Sulkdodds]

snip

Concurred on Ms. Taylor. But what's all this about crows?

 

[Viperidae]

Concurred on Ms. Taylor. But what's all this about crows?

Deepcrows?

 

[Dekstar]

Concurred on Ms. Taylor. But what's all this about crows?

CROWS
Couldn't be arsed to link it before, but here it is since you're so interested.

 

[Omnomnick]

That video was really interesting

That guy just has a scientific look about him...