Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
(15 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish” that’s the main message Apple founder Steve Jobs gives in this speech to college students from Stanford douring his Commencement address on June 12, 2005. Hi talks about his childhood, his mother who gave him away for adoption and the new parents who had to promise to send him to College. [...]
The day Hermann Goering discovered evil through a painting
(14 votes, average: 3.79 out of 5)
This is no documentary about Nazis or Hitler’s 2nd in command Hermann Goering in particular, but it’s a story about the origins of pleasure and how we experience it differently. Paul Bloom gives in this TED talk the example of a famous painting by the Dutch artis Vermeer which Goering buys for what would now [...]
The Rise of China – Largest Economy in 2020?!
(26 votes, average: 3.81 out of 5)
China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world with more than 10% annually growth rate over the last 30 years. It just recently surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world and will probably replace the USA as the number 1 economy in the world by 2020. Martin Jaques is [...]
Homo Evolutis – Beyond the Crisis there is Evolution
(48 votes, average: 4.44 out of 5)
Humans have been evolving over time. Now Juan Enriquez predicts the Homo Evolutis to come next. He is presenting this idea at TED, a conference made for people just like him. Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot – or [...]
Bill Gates Talks at TED and Unleashes Mosquitoes
(27 votes, average: 4.19 out of 5)
On this year’s TED Talks 2009 in California Bill Gates shocked his audience of rich people with the unleashing of a swarm of mosquitoes, so that not only poor people can experience them. Further more he talks about the American school system and the quality of teachers. Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the [...]
