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Ted Talks: Steven Pinker

Dave Eggers Trying To Change The World

Dave Eggers is the author of the brilliant and best selling part novel, part memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius as well as You Shall Know Our Velocity, What Is the What and most recently Zeitoun which is in the process of been turned into an animated film by Jonathan Demme. He is also an editor of McSweeney's publishing house. He is involved and the founder of numerous charitable non-profit projects, and not bullshit sending aid to countries who you screwed over in the first place kinda charity but such projects like co-foundeding 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids ages 6–18 in San Francisco.

And to lighten the mood here is a short film starring Paul Rudd from the Wolphin a quarterly visual magazine which Eggers created.

Random Ted Talk Singing

Bioluminescence: Aliens in the ocean

When the first bioluminescent creatures were discovered most researchers believed that the belonged to a very isolated sub-population of marine life. However, as more and more deep-sea submersibles explore the darkened depths of the ocean more and more glow in the dark fish are appearing. There are plankton, squid, fish, shrimp, jelly-fish and many other marine-organisms that have this amazing ability to produce light. You might wonder why do you need to produce light if you are a fish at the bottom of the ocean? Well some fish emit the light as part of a mating display, others like the shrimp have the capacity to emit a jet of a bioluminescent chemical that can temporarily blind a predator and give the shrimp a chance to escape. And as Edith Widder demonstrates in the Ted Talk below, some jellyfish actually use different pulses of light to communicate. To learn more watch the video below and be amazed by these alien like creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean,  

Eli Pariser: Beware Online "Filter Bubbles"

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. The following TED talk gives a unique insight into his argument:

The Importance Of Being Wrong

A Must See TED Talk: John Hunter on the World Peace Game

If this was how I had been educated and those around me I can't help but think what social, political, philosophical and technological advances we may have already made. An inspiring insight into how educating the next generation should be approached. Todays and yesterdays autonomous generations have messed up badly, we have to teach the next generation from a very early age the mistakes of their parents and grandparents so they don't mess up to.  

Morgan Spurlock: The greatest TED talk ever sold