Tag: TED Talk
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TED Talk: Liz Coleman’s call to reinvent liberal arts education
About this talk from the TED site: Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education — one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.…
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TED Talk: Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library
I’ve heard the Library of Congress analogy previously. The question I had then was, “What about the diagrams and pictures which make the books useful. Books are not just letters, numbers, and symbols.”
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TED Talk: Pandemics
TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic by Larry Brilliant What can we learn from the 1918 flu? by Laurie Garrett My favorite part is that only 20% of Tamiflu is used by human bodies. The rest goes back into the ecosystem where waterfowl who can spread flu end up breeding resistant strains. Ouch.
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TED Talk: Picking apart the puzzle of racism in elections
By Nate Silver A less than convincing point… The list of states with voters reporting a racial bias only well matches the Obama-Clinton difference map because Nate draws the audience to the states he’s picking on: Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia (5 hits). He totally ignores the strong race bias in South Carolina,…
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TED Talk: Brain Magic