I just learned about this cool website: www.ted.com. TED is an organization that asks famous/interesting people to give 20-minute speeches and records them. Now, on their website, you can watch speeches that they’ve collected over the last 24 years. A lot of this content is probably available on YouTube, but the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher on TED because of the limited format and the high barrier to entry.
This morning, I watched a talk by J.J. Abrams, and yesterday I watched a theramin concert and a speech on aging by Aubrey de Grey (whom I’ve read about, but had never seen before). If you have twenty minutes to spare, you should check it out.
