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Monday, September 06, 2010



TED TALKS

TED: Ideas worth Spreading

TED is an organisation devoted to sharing ideas. Below you'll find a selection of their presentations. We hope you like them.


We've started off with some of the latest thoughts... about thoughts!

• Malcom Gladwell and Spaghetti Sauce The nature of choice and happiness.
• Sir Ken Robinson says Schools Kill Creativity An education system to nurture creativity.
• Steven Pinker and The Blank Slate Nature versus nurture.
• Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Genius Brain researcher on experiencing her own stroke.
Dan Gilbert asks Why are we happy? Feeling happy when things don't go as planned.

We've included these talks on the site because we think that the invariably intelligent and enquiring residents of Southwest London would find them of interest. If you have any comments on any of these talks or wish to recommend one for inclusion, please don't hesitate to send us an email.

All the best,

Richard Chumbley, Publisher

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• Malcom Gladwell and Spaghetti Sauce
Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.



• Sir Ken Robinson says Schools Kill Creativity
An entertaining and moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.



• Steven Pinker and The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting.



• Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight
Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened, watching as her brain functions – motion, speech, self-awareness  shut down one by one. Now fully recovered, she tells her story.



• Dan Gilbert asks, why are we happy?
The author of Stumbling on Happiness challenges the idea that we will be miserable if we don't get what we want.






























































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