Head Trip

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

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TED released the list of their most viewed videos (annotated with links to flickr summaries from some of my favorites):

1) Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (2006): 13,409,417 views
2) Jill Bolte Taylor‘s stroke of insight (2008): 10,409,851
3) Pranav Mistry on the thrilling potential of SixthSense (2009): 9,223,263
4) David Gallo‘s underwater astonishments (2007): 7,879,541
5) Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense (2009): 7,467,580
6) Tony Robbins asks Why we do what we do (2006): 6,879,488
7) Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action (2010): 6,050,294
8) Steve Jobs on how to live before you die (2005): 5,444,022
9) Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen (2006): 4,966,643
10) Brene Brown talks about the power of vulnerability (2010): 4,763,038
11) Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation (2009): 4,706,241
12) Arthur Benjamin does mathemagic (2005): 4,658,425
13) Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing your genius (2009): 4,538,037
14) Dan Gilbert asks: Why are we happy? (2004): 4,269,082
15) Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe (2008): 4,153,105
16) Jeff Han demos his breakthrough multi-touchscreen (2006): 3,891,251
17) Johnny Lee shows Wii Remote hacks for educators (2008): 3,869,417
18) Keith Barry does brain magic (I am a prop in this one =) (2004): 3,847,893
19) Mary Roach 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm (2009): 3,810,630
20) Vijay Kumar demos robots that fly like birds (2012): 3,535,340

I especially like the amazing cephalopods in #4. Do you have a favorite?

Have a colorful weekend!

8 responses to “Head Trip”

nchenga

Aug 25, 2012 at 7:19 am

no. 13 by Elisabeth George

i also like Erin McKean http://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html

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PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

Aug 25, 2012 at 1:13 pm

I feel sorry for you Steve… you got the US censorship version… =)
Here in Europe they did it the French way O=)

PhotonQ-Tardigrade Orgy Dancing

Some of the fave speakers : Sugata Mitra, Ken Robinson, Freeman Dyson, Craig Venter, Bonnie Bassler, David Gallo, Mathieu Ricard… and so many more…

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RRNeal

Aug 25, 2012 at 2:56 pm

#11 Daniel Pink regarding motivation was excellent. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention #19 Mary Roach. She remains unparalleled in her wit.

@Photon… LOL! This orgy dance seems oddly similar to rush hour in a Tokyo subway.

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RRNeal

Aug 25, 2012 at 2:58 pm

Let us not forget this one either!
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jurvetson_on_model_rocketry.html

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solerena

Aug 25, 2012 at 3:31 pm

Great list, I have watched some of these, not all…I love Jobs, Gilbert and the one about octopus…and rocketry, of course:) will start watching more..amazing shot, love these colors! Have a great weekend too! LOL – Clement:):)

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jurvetson

Aug 25, 2012 at 4:48 pm

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/rrneal] – why thank you. =) It reminds me of another list I saw earlier this year at the Stanford Business School, quite by accident. It was titled "Top 10 speeches in Silicon Valley" and a student snapped a picture of the white board:

I asked if he could remember the top half of the list: "#1 was Steve Jobs’ 2007 iPhone talk. I think #6 was Guy Kawasaki 10/20/30."

The Joy of Rockets also showed up in a TED talk recap on stage in 2008.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/photonquantique] – Those are great talks. Your list reminds me that my favorite of them all is Bonnie Bassler’s TED talk on bacterial communication. I see homologs across the information networks of biology, from genes to protein kinase cascades, to neurons, even cancer (speculation on that last one in last paragraph here).

And I like your Euro dance photo better than the one we saw at TED U.S. It was that performance in Brussels that brought them to the center stage over here, and it seemed a bit watered down… and converted to day-glo neon, perhaps to appeal to the LA scene. =)

Here’s the rad-hard space-faring creature they were making (survived in space at near absolute zero, and a decade without water):

But what’s less well known is that they have a docking hatch for a snout!

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scleroplex

Aug 25, 2012 at 7:40 pm

and the best part is the Khannas don’t make the list :-))

http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-na...

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TitaWorks

Dec 4, 2019 at 4:51 pm

Hey Steve:

Thanks for sharing this image. I’ve used it in a post on my blog, LIFE-BUILT POEMS: Living Out Loud.

Here’s the link: lifebuiltpoems.com/self-this-and-self-that-and-more-self/

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