[SGVLUG] OT: TED talks / hydrogen fuel, etc.

[Chris Louden]

There are some really amazing talks.

Jill Taylor studies the brain and woke up one morning to find she was
having a stroke. http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/203

Some speakers work off one another.
Rick Warren talks on creationism http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/71
Daniel Dennett responds with an Evolution talk
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/94
Regardless of which you believe both speakers give good talks and are
their to inspire thought and debate.

There are so many good talks. Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Tony Robins,
Richard Branson, Rickard Dawkins, Peter Gabriel, Bono, Alan Kay.... it
just goes on and on with interesting people.

Talks about the Enviornment, AIDS, creativity, Consciousness,
Religion. I listened to one yesterday about an MIT researcher that was
trying help prevent kids in developing countries under the age of 5
from dying from respiratory infections caused by breathing in the
fumes from dirty charcoal used to cook food for the family.



On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Harold Totten <haroldtotten at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also visited the site.  I had never heard of it.  I saw something about
> poverty and went to the Bill Strickland presentation.
> Bill Strickland: Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time
> http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/209
>
> Thanks Chris.  I've bookmarked it.
>
> Harold
>
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> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Emerson, Tom (*IC)
> <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message----- Of Chris Louden
> > >
> > > Recently I began listening/watching various TED talks
> > > (http://www.ted.com). I have been getting them from iTunes as
> > > they are available for FREE.
> >
> > "right now", there is an item on that page labelled "ideas from our
> > sponsor" which when clicked brings up a standalone window to play the
> > video.  The discussion is about hydrogen as a fuel and what "we" [as a
> > world] have to do to make it's use a reality.  Unfortunately, the "link"
> > is
> >
> > http://www.ted.com/#
> >
> > Which you'll note is actually the main page itself -- doing a little
> > digging into the page source, I found:
> >
> > http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/KLAUSTOPFER_high.flv
> >
> > And
> >
> > http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html, which should load
> > the player along with the video...
> >
> > As it is a "sponsored" video, the last minute or so is a BMW ad for
> > their hydrogen car, which is a typical car advert -- great scenery, zero
> > information save for the name of the car itself...
> >
> >
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> --
> Harold Totten
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