Videos
I recommend these videos because they are full of valuable and exciting ideas. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do.
Hyperland, Douglas Adams 1990
music for one apartment and six drummers, Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson 2001
The Bottom Line Interviews, Jan Helfeld
Doing with Images Makes Symbols, Alan Kay 1988
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman 1986
Revitalisation des sols (in French), Claude Bourguignon, 2007
Photons - Corpuscles of Light, lecture (part 1) by Richard Feynman, 1979 (more Feynman videos)
The Life Collection (24 DVD UK set), by David Attenborough, 2005
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Sean Carroll, 20089/11 The Myth and the Reality, David Ray Griffin, 2006 (a good start even though maybe not the full story.)
Sowing the Seeds for a more Creative Society, Mitchel Resnick 2007
The Story of Your Enslavement, Stefan Molyneux 2010 (many of Molyneux's videos are interesting, though I don't recommend them all.)Commercial air traffic seen around the world, ZHAW 2007
Peter Schiff speech at mortgage bankers convention Nov/06, Peter Schiff 2006
Privatizing Roads, Walter Block 2009
on the Unschooled life, Astra Taylor 2009
There are many interesting talks available on the TED Conferences site, such as these:
- Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
- Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
- Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
- Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
- Clay Shirky on institutions versus collaboration
- Ron Eglash on African fractals
- Janine Benyus shares nature's designs
- William McDonough on cradle to cradle design
- James Howard Kunstler dissects suburbia
- Helen Fisher tells us why we love, cheat
- Jonathan Drori on Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do
- Sugata Mitra: Can kids teach themselves?
- Gever Tulley On 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
- Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity