Thursday, May 10, 2007

The Best of TED

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Igor Writes-

For those of you who don't know, TED is an annual conference of influential people in Technology, Entertainment, and Design, in which members are given time to share ideas. Essentially, it's a genius competition. Here are my favorites (prepare to watch for a while) from this past convention.

Steven Levitt: The writer of Freakonomics discusses the structure of the Chicago drug industry and why most crack dealers live with their parents.



ZeFrank: The man behind the genius Show over at http://zefrank.com shares his thoughts on the internet. Hilarious.



Sir Ken Robinson: The creativity expect discusses how the American school system is designed to destroy creativity.



Malcolm Gladwell: The writer of The Tipping Point and Blink with a presentation called "What We Can Learn from Spaghetti Sauce".



If you're as fascinated by these as I am, check out the rest of them here.

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