Now being in a place where bandwidth is no issue, I have been getting more than my share of TED fixes... here are some to look at if you get the chance.
Helen Fisher looks at The Brain in Love
A Biologist who maps the brain and studies love. The intense highs. The incredible lows. It is comforting in a way to know that that incredible pain, and those highs associated with finding someone who loves you, them loving you back, being rejected, rejecting, feeling like you are walking on air, feeling like fire is tearing burning flesh from your body... are all common human experiences. Love as an addiction.
Richard Baraniuk looks at the new world of learning through Open Source Textbooks
I get really excited about this sort of thing. I am busy reading `The Google Story', and I can see such an exciting world ahead. Like the Gutenburg press changed the world 500 years ago, the internet is taking literacy and making it two-way communication. More than two-way... learning will become a part of what we do in the same we breathe. There are no boundaries and nothing is inaccessible. Things like digitizing every book ever written, open-source university, blogs, social-networking and the like are making the world a very exciting place.
Moshe Safdie takes ideas and turns them into Unique Buildings
An architect who looks at the world differently. He takes things people are passionate about and transforms them into spaces and areas of energy and emotion.
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