Posted by Hemant Mehta in The TED conference is described as a “group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value.”
Simply put: Brilliant people saying incredible things… and the talks are relatively short, too.
The TED blog compiled a list of all 150 talks that have been uploaded to their site, along with descriptions.
It’s hard to pick out just a couple favorites since they’re all so good (<--- not an exaggeration), but these two were among the first I saw and they got me hooked on the rest:
Good luck getting any work done tomorrow 
[tags]atheist, atheism[/tags]
As a teacher, you may find Sir Ken Robinson’s TED video quite interesting.
You’re right about all of them being awesome. There may be one or two that don’t really get it done, but for the most part, they’re quite amazing.
When you mentioned Shermer’s talk at TED, I did recommend you watch them all
That still stands for everyone, watch them!
And it was wonderful advice!
Everyone, go watch them all
The Sir Ken Robinson one is great, the first one I saw was Dan Gilbert on happiness he also has an interesting article on athiesm, from a psychological perspective on his website.
And don’t forget the great quote from Daniel Dennett: