Interesting TED Talks
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Career or Job Search
- Making your ideas accessible is not the same as dumbing it down. - We should all have a 1-minute elevator talk, but it shouldn’t sail over your audience.
- Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
- Susan Colantuono: The career advice you probably didn’t get (Women)
- Counterintuitive career advice 12 Talks including the first two
- Bel Pesce: 5 ways to kill your dreams
- Richard St. John: 8 secrets of success - 8 secrets in under 4 minutes
- Richard St. John: Success is a continuous journey
- David Brooks: Should you live for your résumé or your eulogy?
Data Visualization
- Manuel Lima: A visual history of human knowledge
- Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
- David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
- JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
- Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
- Aaron Koblin: Visualizing ourselves with crowd-sourced data
- Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books
- Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms
Security or Privacy Related
- Christopher Soghoian: How to avoid surveillance with the phone in your pocket -- very interesting
- Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust Privacy
- Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers Privacy. CEO of Mozilla on Collusion Graph
- Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching Privacy. This a world-wide issue.
- Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS Privacy.
- Bruce Schneier: The Security Mirage
- Christopher Soghoian: Government surveillance — this is just the beginning
- Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack
- Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet
- Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked
- Andy Yen: Think your email's private? Think again
- Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future
Technology, Industry Related
- Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone The director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, developer of the Internet, responsible for creating and preventing strategic surprise.
- Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online
- Jamie Bartlett: How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
- Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality
- Vinay Venkatraman: Technology crafts for the digitally underserved
- Robin Murphy: These robots come to the rescue after a disaster
- Jon Ronson: When online shaming spirals out of control (a Twitter nightmare)
Global Issues
- Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
- Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready.
- Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water
- Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse
- Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
- Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
- Seth Berkley: The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late if they’re made at all
- Matt Kenyon: A secret memorial for civilian casualties
- Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
- Aspen Baker: A better way to talk about abortion -- or talk about anything tough (Pro-Voice/Exhale)
Other Topics
- Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system
- Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?
- Israel and Iran: A love story?
- Jeff Smith: Lessons in business … from prison
- Bobby Ghosh: Why global jihad is losing
- Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
- Sue Austin: Deep sea diving in a wheelchair
- Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
- How much does a video weigh? - Interesting thoughts on developing a following
- Ash Beckham: When to take a stand -- and when to let it go -- polarization
- Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
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