wisemedia's posterous http://wisemedia.posterous.com Most recent posts at wisemedia's posterous posterous.com Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:10:26 -0800 Ted Talks # 11 - Derek Sivers: How to start a movement http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-11-derek-sivers-how-to-start-a-move http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-11-derek-sivers-how-to-start-a-move
 
With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)

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Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:08:01 -0800 Ted Talks # 10 -Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-10-simon-sinek-how-great-leaders-in http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-10-simon-sinek-how-great-leaders-in
 
 
 
 Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.


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Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:03:15 -0800 Ted Talks # 9 - Sheena Iyengar - The art of choosing http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-9-sheena-iyengar-the-art-of-choosin http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-9-sheena-iyengar-the-art-of-choosin

 
Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

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Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:59:28 -0800 TED Talks # 8 - Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-8-steven-pinker-the-stuff-of-though http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-8-steven-pinker-the-stuff-of-though

In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.

 

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Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:56:54 -0800 TED Talks # 7 -Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-7-richard-baraniuk-goodbye-textbook http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-7-richard-baraniuk-goodbye-textbook

 
Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.

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Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:40:00 -0800 Ted Talks -Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-bonnie-bassler-the-secret-social-li http://wisemedia.posterous.com/ted-talks-bonnie-bassler-the-secret-social-li

Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves.

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