If you are still dropping into Urban Grind these days you will know that I am still harping on about TED.com. Some watch the T.V. news while eating dinner, but in our house we watch TED.com. Even Oscar our 2 year old son yells out TED as we sit down to dinner. Sure after 2 minutes he wants to watch Elmo, but so far he knows nothing of the violence and death that is portrayed by our media. He will grow up with a different idea on his fellow man and woman. He will know that there is a strength in mankind to do positive things on a scale that few have witnessed, let alone can imagine as being capable of by this so called flawed species, the Human. He will know that in the face of all of that negativity he can still choose to change the world. He will know that if he chooses to try than he will. He will have a wealth of inspiration and wisdom to draw from. He will not be afraid.
Tonight I set out to put together my top ten list of TED vids for a couple of my friends, but I had trouble stopping at a top 20 list.
So here is my Top 21 TED Vids List:
Eva Vertes: My dream about the future of medicine (This is number one, the rest were too hard to rank.)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/eva_vertes_looks_to_the_future_of_medicine.html
Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
Dean Kamen: New prosthetic arm for veterans
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dean_kamen_previews_a_new_prosthetic_arm.html
Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Eve Ensler: Finding happiness in body and soul
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/eve_ensler_on_happiness_in_body_and_soul.html
William McDonough: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design.html
Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html
Jonathan Harris: The Web’s secret stories
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_harris_tells_the_web_s_secret_stories.html
Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/majora_carter_s_tale_of_urban_renewal.html
E.O. Wilson: TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/e_o_wilson_on_saving_life_on_earth.html
Jaime Lerner: Sing a song of sustainable cities
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jaime_lerner_sings_of_the_city.html
Emily Oster: What do we really know about the spread of AIDS?
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/emily_oster_flips_our_thinking_on_aids_in_africa.html
Cameron Sinclair: TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/cameron_sinclair_on_open_source_architecture.html
Jeff Skoll: Making movies that make change
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_skoll_makes_movies_that_make_change.html
Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html
Deborah Scranton: Scenes from “The War Tapes”
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/deborah_scranton_on_her_war_tapes.html
Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/al_gore_s_new_thinking_on_the_climate_crisis.html
Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html
Jacqueline Novogratz: Investing in Africa’s own solutions
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jacqueline_novogratz_invests_in_ending_poverty.html
Burt Rutan: Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/burt_rutan_sees_the_future_of_space.html
