TED Talks

TED is a four day annual conference held Monterey, California at which a "group of remarkable people gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value". A huge array of world class speakers speaking/performing for 20 minutes each- not only on TED (Technology, Education, Design) but business, development, science, society and pretty much anything. What really makes the value really incalcuable is that all the presentations are available online, for free. All on Google Video, or released each week on the TEDtalks site.

Example speakers include;

Richard Dawkins, - evolution beats even intelligence // life is beyond imagination
Al Gore, -what we can do to avert a global climate crisis
Robert Wright,- that human history has an arrow — toward greater complexity and intelligence
Nicholas Negroponte, - challenges for the $100 laptop (One Laptop Per Child)
Daniel Dennett, - the imperative of educating the world religions // revealing dogmas
Jimmy Wales, - the management system of Wikipedia
Tony Robbins, -how to unlock your true potential
Dan Gilbert, -the misguided pursuit of happiness
Sir Ken Robbinson, - creativity is as important as literacy // creativity is educated out of children
Malcolm Gladwell, -on learning from spaghetti sauce

The 2007 conference begins this month, so an ever increasing plethora of awesome intellectual stimulation awaits!

(thanks Mazzy!)