Dave Coplin Does it Again

You Don't Have to be a Billionaire (or donate a kidney)

Grace/Luck: You Didn't Earn It

Although it might seem odd for a Buddhist -- I do believe in karma, absolutely -- but from a practical, day-to-day, this-is-your-life perspective, I totally agree. This is actually a very Buddhist message, about ovecoming the ego.

Jim Vance Speaks Out

On the Redskins' vulgar name:

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I wish I could posted what he said last night, but it's not up yet. :/

Peter Gregson on Making the Cello Relevant vs. Being a "Noisy Librarian"

No visuals here. Doesn't need them.

Critical Thinking about Cheese Sandwiches

"When the headlines rolled, what happened is the marketers came calling."


("Neuroflapdoodle" is my favorite, too, Molly.)

Critical Thinking About Reporting

Markham Nolan on TED:

More Cool Sculpture

"The only appropriate response is gratefulness."

A berautiful and timely meditation by Louis Schwartzburg:

"Margaret Thatcher was my mother."

"It's kind of easy to patronize the past to forgo our responsibilities in the present."

Karma-nimation

We don't actually get to see this one get his comeuppance, but it's got to be coming, right? Right?!

Zeitgeist '12 was not all butterflies and rainbows...

Van Jones had some not-all-that-positive stuff to say, too...about politics, what else?

Finding optimism about the future with Google's Eric Schmidt & Peter Diamandis

"Technology changes the conversation."



X-Prizes!:

Finding the future with Google's Larry Page

Dude's voice is almost too mellow, but he has some interesting things to say (that aren't all self-promotion):

Finding Archimedes

The Implications of Posing

Soial psychologist Amy Cuddy on the politics of body language:

Making It Up as We Go Along

Why Eyewitnesses Get It Wrong, by forensic psychologist Scott Fraser:


"All our memories are reconstructed memories."

Daniel Kahneman (love this guy, you don't want to skip this) puts this in a more personal perpective:

Look Again: Objectless Space, Evidence, The Action of Time on Space

Antony Gormley's TED Talk:


"It is about re-asserting out first-hand experience in the present time."

"What works in the real world is cooperation."

Bill's speech:

Listening as Independence

Happy Independence Day!

Independence is in context.



Evelying Glennie's biography from the TED page:

Why you should listen to her: .Evelyn Glennie's music challenges the listener to ask where music comes from: Is it more than simply a translation from score to instrument to audience? How can a musician who has almost no hearing play with such sensitivity and compassion? The Grammy-winning percussionist and composer became almost completely deaf by the age of 12, but her hearing loss brought her a deeper understanding of and connection to the music she loves. She's the subject of the documentary Touch the Sound, which explores this unconventional and intriguing approach to percussion. Along with her vibrant solo career, Glennie has collaborated with musicians ranging from classical orchestras to Björk. Her career has taken her to hundreds of concert stages around the world, and she's recorded a dozen albums, winning a Grammy for her recording of Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, and another for her 2002 collaboration with Bela Fleck. Her passion for music and musical literacy brought her to establish, in collaboration with fellow musicians Julian Lloyd Weber and Sir James Galway, the Music Education Consortium, which successfully lobbied for an investment of 332 million pounds in music education and musical resources in Britain.