Here are some of my favorite videos from the TED conference. There are plenty more great talks over at TED.com so be sure to head on over there later and spend some time exploring. Below I have some of my favorites. You can click the link and go to the TED page for that talk with the video and some information on the speaker, or I have all the videos I linked to at the bottom of this post. I know you will enjoy these.
Lennart Green does close up card tricks
Lennart Green is a very funny and very talented magician. Some of these tricks you will just have to watch a second time and you still won't be able to get them.
Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons
Rives is a great storyteller using a very unusual medium for this story.
Rives on 4 A.M.
Rives again with a mind blowing, DaVinci Code parodying, look at 4 in the morning.
Adam Savage's obsessions
We have probably all seen Adam Savage on MythBusters. Here is a look into what he does on his own time, his hobbies and his obsessions.
Ursus Wehrli tidies up art
Ursus Wehrli is a comedian and the author of 'Tidying Up Art'. I don't really know how to explain what he does any better than that. You just need to watch the video.
Benjamin Zander on music and passion
Benjamin Zander has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic since 1979. He is also a great speaker and teacher. In this talk he will both teach and inspire you.
Ze Frank's nerdcore comedy
Ze Frank accidentally became an internet hit in 2001 with his video "How to Dance Properly". See some of his new fun things on the internet.
Arthur Ganson makes moving sculpture
Arthur Ganson is an exceptionally gifted sculptor who makes pieces that quite literally come alive.
A.J. Jacobs' year of living biblically
A.J. Jacobs is a journalist who spends a year trying to follow all the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.
Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
Author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell talks about choice and how sometimes we don't really know what we like.
Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
Barry also talks about choices and how they relate to our happiness.
J.J. Abrams mystery box
Writer director and producer J.J. Abrams talks about mystery and suspense. If you watch LOST you are going to want to watch this.
Douglas Adams: parrots, the universe, and everything
Ok, so I haven't acttually watched this video yet. I just found it when gathering these others, but it is by Douglas Adams, creator of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" so it has to be good.
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