PickVidsBest Ideas & learning (other) Videos
The 17 Ideas & learning (other) videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 0 intermediate, 17 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, CGP Grey, Talks at Google.
Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn, creator of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, explains how small contributions from many people online can digitize books.
Your Post Code Is the Directions, Not the Destination
CGP Grey explains that postal codes are routing instructions for mail rather than geographic regions.
The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz | TED
Psychologist Barry Schwartz argues in this TED talk that abundant choice makes people more paralyzed and dissatisfied rather than freer and happier.
How to tie your shoes | Terry Moore
Terry Moore's three-minute TED talk showing a better way to tie shoes, replacing the common granny knot with a square knot so laces stay tied.
Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google
Sandy Pentland of MIT presents his book on social physics, which uses big-data studies of how people interact to explain how ideas spread.
Learning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs, shares stories from messy real-world jobs in this TED talk.
Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
Sir Ken Robinson argues, with humor and stories such as that of choreographer Gillian Lynne, that education systems undermine creativity and should be changed.
Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep
Thai farmer Jon Jandai talks about leaving Bangkok to farm and build his own house, arguing that food, shelter, clothing and medicine are easy to provide and that modern life is made needlessly complicated.
The call to learn | Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll's energetic TED talk, a wandering mix of anecdotes, a science experiment and thoughts on curiosity, education and technology.
Make love, not porn (Adult content) | Cindy Gallop
Cindy Gallop gives a 4-minute TED2009 talk arguing hardcore pornography has distorted how young men think about sex.
How to grow fresh air | Kamal Meattle
Researcher Kamal Meattle describes how an arrangement of three common houseplants placed in specific spots can measurably clean the air in a home or office.
You Lose an Hour of Sleep to Save $4
CGP Grey explains the mess of Daylight Saving Time, including its dubious energy savings and the odd cases like Arizona that opt out.
Where good ideas come from | Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson's TED talk argues that good ideas come from connected, slow-building hunches and liquid networks, from London coffee houses to Darwin to the modern web, rather than lone Eureka moments.
Antifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google
Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks at Google about his book Antifragile, on systems that gain from disorder and volatility.
The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant | TED
Adam Grant's TED talk on the habits of original thinkers, including procrastination and embracing failure.
Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl | TEDxMinneapolis
Lawyer and musician Damien Riehl argues that music is math with a finite number of melodies, and describes how he and programmer Noah Rubin generated every possible melody and released them under CC0 to avoid accidental infringement claims.
Which country does the most good for the world? | Simon Anholt
Policy advisor Simon Anholt presents the Good Country Index, a measure of how much each nation contributes to the world beyond its own borders.