3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Margaret Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright (by TEDtalksDirector)
Margaret Stewart, YouTube’s head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) (by TEDtalksDirector)
In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating “the optimum TEDTalk” based on user ratings. How do you rate it?
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - TEDxConcordiaUPortland - Joe Smith - How To Use One Paper Towel (via John Gruber)
You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you’re doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk at TEDxConcordiaUPortland, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel technique.Joe Smith is an active figure in the Oregon community and a powerful advocate for proper paper towel use.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon (by TEDEducation)
Can folding a piece of paper 45 times get you to the moon? By seeing what happens when folding just one piece of paper, we see the unbelievable potential of exponential growth. This lesson will leave you wanting to grab a piece of paper to see how many times you can fold it!
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Hans Rosling’s Shortest TED Talk Ever (via Duncan Davidson)
Hans Rosling was at TEDxSummit and gave this short little talk during an interview out on the promenade. Spontaenous moments like this filled last week. I’m so happy that somebody recorded this.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Richard St. John: “Success is a continuous journey” (by TEDtalksDirector)
In his typically candid style, Richard St. John reminds us that success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of his business’ rise and fall to illustrate a valuable lesson — when we stop trying, we fail.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media (viaTEDtalksDirector)
In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale’s rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays? (via TEDEducation)
Since 1845, Americans have been voting on Tuesdays — but why? In this humorous talk, Jacob Soboroff shares the history of Election Day and shows how voting on a Tuesday affects voter turnout.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history (via TEDtalksDirector)
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Frank Warren: Half a million secrets (by TEDtalksDirector)
“Secrets can take many forms — they can be shocking, or silly, or soulful.” Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, shares some of the half-million secrets that strangers have mailed him on postcards.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Poetic Stickup: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag (by TEDEducation)
At TEDYouth 2011, Performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea — as in this spoken word performance, a stirring plea to make college education more accessible.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is (by TEDtalksDirector)
Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes (via The Geeks Companion
Terry Moore found out he’d been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way. (Historical note: This was the very first 3-minute audience talk given from the TED stage, in 2005.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place (by TEDtalksDirector)
At TEDxChange, Thailand’s “Mr. Condom,” Mechai Viravaidya, walks us through the country’s bold plan to raise its standard of living, starting in the 1970s. First step: population control. And that means a lot of frank, funny — and very effective — talk about condoms.
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3T: TED Talk Tuesday - Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor (by TEDtalksDirector)
Taylor Wilson believes nuclear fusion is a solution to our future energy needs, and that kids can change the world. And he knows something about both of those: When he was 14, he built a working fusion reactor in his parents’ garage. Now 17, he takes the TED stage to tell (the short version of) his story.
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