TEDxBrisbane

Benjamin Zander on music and passion

Carl Lindgren — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:40:41 +0000

Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it — and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Carl Lindgren — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:38:26 +0000

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

Carl Lindgren — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:37:14 +0000

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight

Carl Lindgren — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:34:48 +0000

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story

Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good

Carl Lindgren — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:24:29 +0000

We’re at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today’s interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic — and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

Carl Lindgren — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:11:30 +0000

In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat — stunning aerial photographs in his series “The Earth From Above,” personal interviews from around the globe featured in his web project “6 billion Others,” and his soon-to-be-released movie, “Home,” which documents human impact on the environment through breathtaking video.

Favourite TED talks: Michelle Obama

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:16:08 +0000

Speaking at a London girls’ school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brilliant generation, she says, that will close the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be.