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Title: Favorite TED talker?
Post by: texasmom on April 05, 2008, 01:03:18 AM

Do any of y'all have a favorite TED talker?
Here's mine:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/237
I just love this guy.  :aok :D

Title: Re: Favorite TED talker?
Post by: PhantomBarron on April 05, 2008, 06:52:15 AM

Wow, The 60s were good to him lol

Title: Re: Favorite TED talker?
Post by: moot on April 05, 2008, 07:15:46 AM

Stone, Rutan, Shermer, DeGrey, Deutsch, Jeff Hawkins, Stephen Hawkins. Murray Gell-Mann for expressing in a very simple and transparent way what most people who have a sense of design and/or engineering have felt since they first played with lego as kids.

Ben Dunlap was ok.  Yossi Vardi - Who let the geeks out?! :lol   Stephen Pinker, great ideas presented to (probably) a lot of people who hadn't thought of em, but done a bit too crypticaly.

Worse:  Warren, Dawkins for being so extremely rabid an activist, Jill Bolte Taylor for being such an airhead hippie; Sherwin Nuland did a much better job on a similar topic.  Frank Gehry for presenting a nice talk in such a constipated way.  Deborah Gordon, another one who might have something interesting to say, but presents it in a way I can't bear for more than a minute.
Matthieu Ricard, Phillipe Starck - two frenchies who never bothered to make their accent and mannerisms understandable to the non-french.

Just off the top of my head... 

Title: Re: Favorite TED talker?
Post by: texasmom on April 05, 2008, 11:08:42 AM

Thanks m00t, I'm gonna go back & watch your favorites. :)