Here’s a real story about a real whale and a real thing that happened on the internet as told by the founder of Reddit. A great four minute story about how the internet got Greenpeace to have a good time and in turn save a whole lot of whales from a Japanese assault.
Tag Archives: TED
Define Your Own Success
Here’s a neat TED Talk that examines how western culture treats the idea of success by Alain de Bolton. He ultimately believes that we need to look into ourselves to figure out what we want and define our success from there; this is contrary to the dominant idea of success based on material wealth.
PublicVoice.tv: A Place to Examine Issues that Matter
PublicVoice.tv wants you to learn more about the world around you and share your voice. The site is a fantastic resource for some thought-provoking videos focused on public policy. I encourage you to watch at least one of their videos; it’s like TED but for public policy.
PublicVoice.tv has been created as an online source for leading edge thinking and ideas about critical public policy questions.
PublicVoice seeks to be a forum for those issues that affect us all – and will give you unfiltered access to some of the best minds of our time, providing their unique insight in areas of great policy challenge, including pro-growth economic development, food security, the future of energy, the dynamics of poverty and citizen engagement – to name only a few.
Here’s a video on public service and citizen engagement in the information age:
Solar Power and Stirling Engines (TED Talk)
Here’s a talk from 2003 that examines the efficiency of using concentrated solar energy to run a stirling engine. This is a super-efficient way to produce energy.
Using Kites for Wind Energy
This TED Talk is about inventor Saul Griffith’s idea to use giant kite wind turbines to create energy. Watch it now: