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What are some TED Talks worth watching?
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All of them :^)
On of my fucking favourites. I cn't wrap my head around this phenomenon for shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxGrde1NDA
Careful, many of them are nothing but a bunch of smoke blown up your ass. Here's one worth watching, so you know what to look for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o
>>8008875
>All of them
No. They've gotten worse recently
>>8008905
hehehe too true, too true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM
>>8008873
THE BEST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0
>>8008873
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w
>>8008875
that was a nice watch, Anon
>>8009180
DUDE
>>8008873
https://www.ted.com/talks/yassmin_abdel_magied_what_does_my_headscarf_mean_to_you
Any of the banned talks.
>>8008875
>All of them :^)
90% of them are either pseudoscientific selfhelp or politically promoting frankfurt school
>>8009180
inspiring...
Dean Kamen on innovation
This one here is just wow. About how bacterias communicate and how they use that to attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWurAmtf78&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_3710347429&src_vid=2UxGrde1NDA
>>8008924
Came here to post this
>>8008924
Everything else is a waste of time for morons who want to feel smart by watching youtube videos
>>8008873
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
not 100% /sci/ related but interesting nonetheless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_1UEAGCo30
>>8008873
Well, they were really great in the beginning, but there's so many now that good ones are a diamond in the rough. It is along the lines of the same curve creepypasta went downhill.
Reggie Watts
>>8008873
>click on a video titled "why I love prime numbers"
>dude is a mathematician
>thisgonbgud
>he starts off explaining the basics of what prime numbers are
>"did you know there are huuuuuuuge prime numbers?"
>"and I mean like huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge"
>rest of the 10 or so minutes of the video is him just putting into perspective how large the largest known prime number is
expected him to go into the uses for prime numbers in cryptography or something. nope, apparently the reason this mathematician loves prime numbers is how large some of them are
I think I have yet to find a TED talk that was interesting at all. I have yet to check out all the videos in this thread though
>>8010215
this is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4xOFsygwr4
everybody loves it, really tells you how low the standard for TED talks really is
>>8008920
ganoo + loonix
>>8010215
And their educational videos are crap. This one for example tries to teach people conditional probability by replicating the Boy Girl Problem but they fuck it up by introducing the mechanism of male frogs croaking, which changes the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpwSGsb-rTs
>>8010215
>click on a ted talk about math in music
>the entire video is some guy banging a drum going "a-rhythm-a-tic, a-rhythm-a-tic, a-rhythm-a-tic"
yea, a heap of those ted talks are worse than aids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI
>>8010320
There is no scientific evidence for any of Savory's claims.
>>8010344
Seeing is believing.
>>8010384
You don't have to believe anything if you have scientific evidence. The studies of these grazing techniques show that it doesn't work. Anecdotes are not evidence.
>>8008873
Mathemagician ftw
>>8008875
slime computers when!!!
>>8008875
>3:10
Does this mean lightning also has intelligence?
>>8010496
yes
>>8008873
Shake and fold
>>8010679
This fampai
>>8010215
http://youtu.be/pGlZi2SwETc
This one is cute, I did not learn anything but I thought it was nice
>>8008873
tail lopez one
Anything but Tedx (which is fucking garbage).
>>8010244
TED is not for /sci/. It's for /biz/. And /an/.
>>8008912
>recently
like 3 years ago
>>8008873
Theres one called "The Science Delusion" which was banned from uploading
Last time I watched a TED talk (not TEDx) the guy started off with a long story about how his great uncle was killed at Auschwitz. Had nothing to do with the subject matter but he thought it was necessary to let us know that he was an oppressed minority because some relative that died before he was even born did so during a war. It's just people parading their political credentials now. I switched over to Talks@Google for a while. They're not as slick as TED but are usually an hour or so in length so you get more meat. Unfortunately they've lately become almost all about SJW issues. Not sure where to go for actual science and technology talks now.
>>8012284
I agree about PLEB talks. They're just a platform for assholes to try and convince rich people (the live audience) to give them money or other resources.
Google talks are significantly better but some of them are just general interest or for fun. Either way, I enjoy them, maybe because I'm not /pol/ cancer.
The best resources in my opinion are:
>university youtube channels with lots of hosted talks such as
(UCTV) https://www.youtube.com/user/UCtelevision/playlists
I know UCTV's playlist looks crappy on the surface, but look around. They've got this amazing "Grey Matters" series with really great talks burried in there. I think the infamous "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" talk is on UCTV as well. Here's a Grey Matters video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1pbnWcabMY
(Stanford) https://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity/playlists
>More random university hosted talks (hosted by labs, seminars, multi-disciplinary research institutes, etc..).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFu5O-oPmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWyChcB_Vg
>lectures recommended or given by random professors and academics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECQyFzzBHlo
>talks at conferences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
(even just looking up a conference you would've liked to attend will sometimes pull up interesting content)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_vfyEYrgJND3jVhZeVUdzA/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
(from above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uvuTs-e_KQ
https://vimeo.com/user4774707
>talks by people who have some principles or ideology they're pushing.
(Bret Victor) http://worrydream.com/
https://vimeo.com/67076984
https://vimeo.com/36579366
https://vimeo.com/71278954
(Gary Bernhardt) https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
>>8012591
To be clear. The list I posted isn't any sort of definitive list. Just a short list of examples for alternative places to find good talks. There are many more interesting talks out there that aren't hosted at PLEB talks or Google talks.
This one
https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change?language=en
Make places greener by changing how you heard cattle.
