[Closed] Friday TED talks

Coincidentally I was at a talk last weekend where Colin Greenwood out of Radiohead talked about how they used samples, and loops, to build the tracks for King of Limbs. Most interesting.

And, in my opinion, the Do Lectures are better than TED.

Inspiration for anyone who thinks introducing livable streets and worthwhile cycle facilities is just "too hard" in your city:

https://www.ted.com/talks/janette_sadik_khan_new_york_s_streets_not_so_mean_any_more

If they can do it in New York, then why not London?

On TED: Richard Wilkinson, David Stuckler.

Short and sweet: http://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes

Correct knot - but he's still tying it wrong.
It's much easier to tie if you use the two-loop (aka Bunny Ears) method.

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/twoloopknot.htm

Or of course you could use the Ian Knot:
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(Last time I mentioned this at least four people had shoelace-related epiphanies! 🙂 )

[url= http://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_better_stronger ]This is good[/url]

Evgeny Morozov summed up nicely my view of the mahority of TED stuff. When discussing various tech based solutions for problems that don't really exist he said:

"Half-baked ideas that might seem too big even for the naïfs at TED Conferences—that Woodstock of the intellectual effete—sit rather comfortably on Silicon Valley’s business plans."

Woodstock of the intellectual effete

Is that supposed to be a bad thing? 😕

This one is pretty amazing if you haven't seen it already.
Quadcopters + imaging + lots of software smarts.

http://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_athletic_power_of_quadcopters