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- kmalik, on 12/10/2007, -2/+197BTW, TED is a ***** amazing site! i highly recommend watching their clips...you get inspired to change the world!
- zeyad, on 12/10/2007, -4/+131Nice video player, I must say.
- bariswheel, on 12/10/2007, -2/+104Very glad to start seeing TED talks being dugg on digg. There are some amazing talks on that website. It costs thousands of dollars to attend these talks folks, they just started releasing it to the masses, for free, like Google Tech Talks. We're very fortunate to have this, pay your respects, pursue more TED talks, less videos of people doing gross things. The mind is like a parachute; you have to open it up to make it work.
- Joomal, on 12/10/2007, -3/+100Excellent. Do yourselves a favour and watch the entire 23 minutes.
- savethemooses, on 12/10/2007, -1/+81No way, TED. Nu-uh. You're not going to keep me up late watching videos this time. Not during finals week.
Aw, crap. - ToKnow, on 12/10/2007, -1/+64Ramachandran is amazing. Not only do I enjoy his works, but I also love how he pronounces his R's.
- Lixie, on 12/10/2007, -9/+59Anybody else curious why there's a drum set on stage?
- handturkee, on 12/10/2007, -3/+52I agree. A lot of the talks are pretty boring, but some are absolutely fascinating. I'll put some more up soon.
- Spazkake, on 12/10/2007, -2/+48He should move on to solving the "phantom vibrate" from cell phones.
- nitroburn, on 12/10/2007, -2/+44I couldn't believe how simple of a solution he found for the phantom limb pain. It is just amazing when you think how large of a change that can make in a persons life and it is such a simple device. Dollar Store fix to a problem I bet many are willing to pay thousands+ to rid them selves of. Not that you don't need a doctor.
- jmpeagle, on 12/10/2007, -2/+37only for peace, he didn't win anything of any academic value
- zspitfire04, on 12/10/2007, -12/+45And they picked Al Gore for the Nobel?
- davidmcraney, on 12/10/2007, -0/+33This is the best link ever on Digg.
- aflaks, on 12/10/2007, -11/+40its even better stoned!
- Timdegreat, on 12/10/2007, -2/+29Excellent speaker. I wish I could have him as a prof.
- fhernand, on 12/10/2007, -4/+28I actually ***** clapped with the audience because of his brilliant solution.. fascinating
- ahothabeth, on 12/10/2007, -2/+23It is worth while listening to the 2003 Reith lectures from the BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/, here Vilayanur Ramachandran gives five excellent talks.
- Rahodeb, on 12/10/2007, -1/+22I think there's something wrong with your medula oblongata
- LloydBentsen, on 12/10/2007, -4/+21Awesome clips indeed, but they always make me feel worthless in comparison to their achievements rather than inspire me.
- chaos7, on 12/10/2007, -5/+22Ramachandran is great! i have 2 of his books.
- onebadsummer, on 12/10/2007, -5/+21As a psych student, he really is, in all senses of the word, excellent.
I'd be privileged to study with him. - Laughto, on 12/10/2007, -1/+16That site has an awesome rating system
- Hefelumpman, on 12/10/2007, -1/+15Just to echo some other people, TED is an awesome site, and I'd say the majority of the talks are *fascinating*. A large number are also available on youtube
- aryo, on 12/10/2007, -1/+15is that richard branson at the very last second standing and giving applause?
- badmephisto, on 12/10/2007, -1/+14that keeky buuba demo was amazing
- LimeParrot, on 12/10/2007, -1/+14They have to make realistic goals. We'll leave girls for the neurologists of the 29th century.
- u8eR, on 12/10/2007, -1/+14This guy is a genius.
- liquidpele, on 12/10/2007, -2/+14He did talk about studying people with damaged brains. I assumed he meant women...
I kid! I kid! - lazyleo, on 12/10/2007, -5/+17Man that video is slick and a very good site too..about the brain things he talked about..i am pretty sure he just studied guys..no one can understand girls :D
- Grym11, on 12/10/2007, -1/+13Seriously. The one 18 year-old chick who was writing research papers suggesting a theoretical type of cancer treatment was the breaking point for me. I mean, honestly, I'm in medical school and have been studying biology since high school and I'm just now learning some of the stuff she was talking about--how did she know this crap!?!?!!
Some people innovate. Some people inspire. Others just make you feel comparatively stupid. =( - zspitfire04, on 12/10/2007, -0/+10There are other presentations and what not during the small gathering.
- sigafoo, on 12/10/2007, -0/+10that was very well done, i've even heard about most of the stuff before... but i was _really_ weirded out at the end with the shapes/names things, because i didn't have any gut feeling, or anything... And I also can never figure out metaphors... like at all. Yeah...
- primetime485, on 12/10/2007, -0/+9I just watched this one today and would highly recommend it. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/195
- ihyddimo, on 12/10/2007, -1/+10WELP.
I feel pretty good right now. This man is a professor at my school and I have the option of taking one of his classes within the next two years.
***** sweet. I feel blessed. 0=) - widdelywah292, on 12/10/2007, -0/+9i rrrreally like the way he rrrrrrrolls his rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs. lol great vid.
- pak314, on 12/10/2007, -2/+11Indian Hindu names often derive from the combination of names of many Gods and Goddesses. For example Ramachandran is the combination of Rama and Chandra. So you can pronounce it Rama-Chandran. Also most vowels tend to be the short type.
- d0odx, on 12/10/2007, -0/+9i would digg this 100 times if i could. Fantastic.
- PowerLlama, on 12/10/2007, -0/+8I would absolutely love to go to TED some day. But then I would realize how dumb I really am.
- RoryQ, on 12/10/2007, -0/+7Yeah the video play is very nice aswell, better interface than any other video streaming site i've used.
- arandomgeek, on 02/24/2009, -0/+7Brilliant!! Somebody get this man a Guinness.
- Gambit89, on 12/10/2007, -0/+7There's already a list in the podcast section of Digg:
This TED Talk:
http://digg.com/podcasts/TEDTalks_video/676882
Main podcast section:
http://digg.com/podcasts/TEDTalks_video
I personally recommend this one by Sir Ken Robinson, on school and creativity:
http://digg.com/podcasts/TEDTalks_video/1364
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66 - KDAY12, on 12/10/2007, -0/+7Yeah, I've been a fan for awhile as well. "Phantoms in the Brain" is my personal favorite book of his. He is a rock star of neurology.
- sammysnake, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6http://img30.picoodle.com/img/img30/5/12/10/f_bran ...
- concretemech, on 12/10/2007, -1/+7I've always been really interested in epistemology. I think the brain is like everything else, what we don't understand we attribute to god, and what we do understand is purely ruled by natural physical laws. I personally believe in epiphenominalism because i think the brain is all we need to explain human consciousness.
- LimeParrot, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6Definitely. I thought I'd get bored real quick but it was worth it.
- LimeParrot, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6Yep. That was a genius solution. Chronic pain ruins your life...
- ahothabeth, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6Sorry the comma after the URL is causing the problem.
Try http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/ instead.
Sorry about any confusion. - handturkee, on 12/10/2007, -1/+7Didn't know it would get such a great response. Thanks!
- Maynza, on 12/10/2007, -2/+8You probably clap at the movie theater too >_>
- wetard57, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6like the player and his name, Vilayanur Ramachandran
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