Ted's TED of the Week
Ted's TED of the Week
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader, making the best talks and performances from TED available to the world. Each Friday, Ted Bull will choose his favourite TED of the week.
Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)
Dolby + Garniez play "La Vie en Rose"
Featuring the vocals and mischievous bell-playing of accordionist and singer Rachelle Garniez, the TED House Band - led by Thomas Dolby on keyboard, delivers this delightful rendition of the Edith Piaf standard "La Vie en Rose".
Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours
Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.
John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean
Oceanographer John Delaney is leading the team that is building an underwater network of high-def cameras and sensors that will turn our ocean into a global interactive lab, sparking an explosion of rich data about the world below.
Viktor Frankl's search for meaning
In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning and the most important gift we can give others.
Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction
Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.
Afternoons with Ted Bull
Ted Bull has been in broadcasting for many years and in that time has been fortunate enough to survive in what can be a hairy business. But he has achieved this with a fairly healthy and philosophical attitude.
