An Endorsement of TED.com

   It is the season for endorsements and so the folks here at HTH have put together a few posts of things we put our full weight behind. One of the items we put a lot of stock in is TED. TED is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Each year, in Long Beach, California or Palm Springs, Arizona and Edinburgh, Scotland, the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers come together and are challenged to give the, "talk of their lives", in a time limit of 18 minutes. You can listen to talks on a variety of topics ranging from technology, of course, to science, to music, to medicine. Most of the talks are really quite interesting and the good part is that each talk is of such a limited amount of time that you don't have to invest a lot of your day into listening/watching each talk.

    TED was begun in 1986 as a nonprofit organization with the sole goal of bringing together the brightest and most talented people on the planet and beginning a dialogue amongst them in an attempt to learn from each other and from them and to solve the problems and crises that our modern world presents to us. Since then, over 1200 talks have been given and most of those can be found on their website. (HINT. HINT. Click on the word, website.) The website was begun in 2007 and is one that I use each year in the subjects that I teach (Physical Science, Earth Science, Biology, and Anatomy & Physiology). And most recently, Mel and I discovered a TED channel that we could subscribe to (for free) through the use of our Roku box. I would encourage you to check out the website. They add new talks to the site each month, so one can always find something to watch. To end this post, I will post my three favorite TED talks. I hope you enjoy. Feel free to peruse the site and send me your favorites.












Happy watching and thanks for stopping by,

   David