Why aren’t you looking at TED?

I’ve banged on about this before, but I was looking at TED.com again last night and I still can’t quite believe what an unbelievable free resource it is. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design and consists of a series of conferences at which people at the bleeding edge of their fields give short lectures on what they do or what they predict for the future. It was at a TED conference that Al Gore first made the climate change presentation that became “An Inconvenient Truth”. At the TED website, every single one of these lectures is available to stream or download for FREE.

There are more ideas here, more invitations to think differently or to be inspired, than anywhere else online. Here is a smattering of some of the best bits… (I’ve linked to some of them before, so apologies for any repetition)

Sir Ken Robinson on how schools kill creativity:

Malcolm Gladwell gets to the truth of what we want via spaghetti sauce:

Clifford Stoll spends 18 energetic minutes on, well, everything:

Writer-director JJ Abrams (Lost, Alias, Fringe, MI:3) on mystery:

Steven Levitt (Freakonomics) discusses the merits or otherwise of child carseats:

That’s a tiny selection of what’s available. I post TED lectures her and on the Little Brain now and again but I urge you to visit TED.com and explore for yourself. You can also subscribe to the TED video podcast through iTunes.

Go be inspired…