{"id":1103,"date":"2009-09-14T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2012-03-30T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T00:35:11","slug":"ted-stroke-of-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/09\/14\/ted-stroke-of-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Talk: Stroke of Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first couple TED videos I watched didn&#8217;t impress me. A few weeks later, I saw this post from Sam about the <a href=\"http:\/\/samrowe.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/16\/top-ten-ted-talks\/\">top 10 TED videos<\/a>. Sam is one of those people who reserves good for the truly special so I made sure to watch them. This video was the first on that list and occupied me as I watched it about once a day for a week. (Admittedly I didn&#8217;t get around to it until a few months later.)<\/p>\n<p>B&amp;N suckered me into buying the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/My-Stroke-Insight-Scientists-Personal\/dp\/0452295548\/r\">My Stroke of Insight<\/a> by setting up a table for interesting topics. Smart because I nearly dropped a couple hundred dollars that day. Anyway, I gave it as gift to Mom. Family conversations and book gifts about random miscellaneous topics is why I blabber so much about random miscellaneous information. No, I had not read it before I gifted it. So&#8230; Now I am reading it. I do like the book.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis told me she knows someone else who is reading it. She has exams so I recommended she at least watch this video. I figure the invitation should be more global.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/JillBolteTaylor_2008-medium.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/JillBolteTaylor-2008.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=229&amp;introDuration=16500&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=2000&amp;adKeys=talk=jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight;year=2008;theme=medicine_without_borders;theme=master_storytellers;theme=top_10_tedtalks;theme=how_the_mind_works;event=TED2008;\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of hoping to have a stroke now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first couple TED videos I watched didn&#8217;t impress me. A few weeks later, I saw this post from Sam about the top 10 TED videos. Sam is one of those people who reserves good for the truly special so I made sure to watch them. 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