TED videos

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1) Hillel Cooperman
2) Legos For Grownups
3) Adults creating life-size models and functioning machines out of Lego.
4) Lego blocks are an obsession for some mature adults. There is a Lego subculture for adults consisting of life-size models, CAD and open-source robotics.
5) Hillel Cooperman is an enthusiast from Seattle. He also founded Jackson Fish Market, a web software consultancy and design firm that has helped brands like Bing and WeSeed. He found/documented many different ethnic restaurants for Tasting Menus.
6) An interest in adults being able to play with Lego and creating in-depth models.
7) I love Lego. I recently played it with my friend and an 8 year-old boy.
8) I now want to create Lego sculptures and actually spend time creating things.
9) The slot machine made of Lego. It functions and that blows my mind.
10) Inspiring.

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1) Dan Dennet
2) Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny
3) Why do people find things cute, sexy, sweet and funny?
4) Dan Dennet talks about why people intuitively find certain things cute, sexy, sweet and funny.
5) Philosopher and scientist Dan Dennet has written two books. In 2003 Freedom Evolves and in 2006 Breaking the Spell. He talks about people's free thought and their instincts.
6) We don't like things because they are that way. We like them because we like that trait.
7) It had an appealing title. As well as I have always wondered about it.
8) I always suspected this, although it began as a Darwin theory and not knowing much about Darwin I find it hard to agree with his findings.
9) God needing to find a way for chimps to breed.
10) Redundant.

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1) Deb Roy
2) The Birth of a Word
3) Studying how his infant son learned language.
4) Deb set up cameras in every room of his house. He has recorded 90,000 hours of video. He uses this to find out how his son's "gaaaaaa" into "water".
5) Deb works at MIT where he studies how children learn language. He is also working on AI in Bluefin Labs.
6) He wants to find the relationship between learning words and what they mean in the world and how we use them.
7) Because I've always wanted to know how people learn language. I heard a story about children learning to speak "The Language of Eden" in a nunnery in Russia. This failed and they ended up dying. Which is horrible, but I've been intrigued about it.
8) I haven't changed my thoughts much. Most ways that infants learn language were ways that I already guessed. Although I found it mind-blowing on how it changed (verbally). It was just so weird, and awesome, to hear how his sounds changed into words.
9) The change of his son's change from "Gaaaa" to "water". It was amazing how he pieced the changes together.
10) "Gaaagaawaaa-ter"

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1) Sebastian Wernicke
2) Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks)
3) Creating the ultimate TEDTalk or the worst TEDTalk.
4) Sebastian Wernicke analyzes statistics on the highest/lowest rated TEDTalks and finds out what makes them so. He finds a way to create the best and worst TEDTalk.
5) Sebastian worked in bioinformatics and made his name there. He then became corporate and manages multidimensional projects.
6) What is the main point/thesis the presenter is making about the topic?
7) Because I wasn't really into TEDTalks, so finding somebody who ripped them apart was hilarious.
8) People don't have to be extremely intelligent to do a TEDTalk. They just have to use pretty colours and words that people find nice.
9) French Coffee Spreads Happiness in Your Brain
10) Analyzed

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1) Rives
2) Rives Controls the Internet
3) A poem about what Rives would do if he could control the internet. It was a metaphor for having old fashioned values and going back to an easier life.
4) Rives creates a poem about the internet and combining Monster/Friendster/Ebay.com to create one ultimate website.
5) Rives is on the HBO's Def Poetry Jam. He's also the new star of a TV special called "Ironic Iconic America". Rives is a co-host on the next TEDActive in Palm Springs.
6) He realizes (an points out) that people don't need the internet to survive. Life is easier and more real when doing it yourself.
7) I enjoy using the internet. Also that my friend and I are going to do a slam poetry spoof.
8) He didn't change my view. I totally agreed with him, he just restated it so that it's further imprinted in my brain.
9)"You would be able to e-mail the dead. They wouldn't reply. But just a name in your inbox. That's all you really wanted."
10) Traditional

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1) Sebastian Thrun
2) Sebastian Thrun: Google's Driverless Car
3) Creating self-driving cars that could potentially save millions of lives.
4) Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's driverless car in hoping that it will save lives. it won many competitions and this TEDTalk shows how fast it can go and what it;s really capable of by driving in urban areas as well as the desert.
5)Sebastian Thrun is working at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab with robotics hoping that we can use them to change the world.
6) Almost every car crash is by human error, so, by creating self-driving cars we can help prevent this and save lives.
7) I'm not a car person, but I've always been fascinated in these big changes (much alike the electric car)
8) I always thought that it would be dangerous and a bad idea, but instead I think that it would only be a good thing seeing as they stop automatically for pedestrians.
9) The shot of the car coming to a crosswalk and stopping to let the pedestrians cross the street.
10) Innovative

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1) Maz Jobrani
2) Did You Hear the One About the Iranian-American?
3) A stand-up routine trying to show Muslims in a positive light and to break stereotypes.
4) On the "Axis Of Evil Comedy Tour" Maz Jobrani talks about the conflicts of being an Iranian-American.
5) Maz Jobrani is a founding memeber of "The Axis Of Evil Comedy Tour" and is doig his own solo tour "Brown and Friendly"
6) That people can break stereotypes and that not all Muslims are the crazy fanatics.
7) I've always like stand-up comedy so i was excited to see one on TED.com.
8) I am unchanged, I know that people break stereotypes.
9) The hotel manager and Maz thought each other were the other's driver due to stereotypes.
10) Clear

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1) Rives
2) Rives Tells A Story of Mixed Emoticons
3) Rives tells a story about a man and a woman through emoticons.
4) Rives tells a typographical fairy tale about a man and a woman meeting and falling in love.
5) Rives is on the HBO's Def Poetry Jam. He's also the new star of a TV special called "Ironic Iconic America". Rives is a co-host on the next TEDActive in Palm Springs.
6) He is showing (again) that we use emoticons/messaging for everything including love now.
7) I spend a lot of time on my cell phone and on the computer and I realize this, yet I still like to know about things to do with emoticons and other related messaging paraphernalia.
8) I always thought that they were overused but now I realize that you can tell any story or say anything or show anything thing that you want to. There is a line between creative and sick, and I don't know where it is.
9) This means guy and that is a ponytail on a passer-by.
10) Creative. I know that it's a cheap word to use, but it really is the best word to describe it.

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1) Adam Grosser
2) Adam Grosser and His Sustainable Fridge
3) Adam Grosser is searching for a way to create a fridge that doesn't run on any toxic fuels and is inexpensive.
4) Perfecting some old technology Adam hopes to create an inexpensive and accessible refrigeration unit.
5) Adam is a partner at Foundation Capital.
6) There is a way for everyone in the world to be able to have refrigeration.
7) I enjoy food; food needs fridges; I enjoy fridges.
8) I had no idea this was even remotely possible. I'm shocked that being on the verge of this we haven't put forward the most knowledgeable people on the planet to invent this.
9) The fridge was the size of a camping lantern.
10) Advanced

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1) Dean Ornish
2) Dean Ornish Says Your Genes Are Not Your Fate
3) People can grow more brain cells by changing their habits and are not always that way.
4) If you live healthier by eating better, exercising and love more your brain cells can actually increase.
5) Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He is also a a leading expert on fighting heart disease and diabetes.
6) If you amke smarter decisions, you will become a smarter person.
7) Genes fascinate me and always have, I also like knowing about other people's habits.
8) There are some habits I want to change, and some I want to pick up now.
9) Cannibinoids (found in cannabis) actually can increase the amount of brain cells. Weird. I knew it didn't kill brain cells but I found this to be very interesting.
10) Conscientious.

Amy & David Character Analysis

As people get older some change and some stay the same. In "And Summer Is Gone", a short story by Susie Kretschmer, David and Amy have been friends since David moved to her town when he was 12. They are very different. David is calm, introvert, artistic and slightly mundane and she is shallow, insecure, popular,and easily subject to peer pressure. Throughout the story David stays the same, yet the only quality about Amy that stays the same is popular.

At the age of 12 David enjoys painting and continues to do so throughout the years. He won the local art exhibit "for the second year in a row" (20). Throughout school he excels in academics and plans a future by "dreaming of college" (19). He remains secluded and does his own thing, which makes him happy. This boy is a loner but he doesn't mind because he makes friends when he wants to, such as the guys from his swim team he'd "met freshman year" (19).As a child David paints about Aztecs and Mayans; he still does this, and he wins art exhibitions with the paintings. David is a calm person and doesn't let things get to him. When Amy leaves he says "I cried within" (27) and he met her eyes with a "level calm stare" (23).

When Amy was 12 she's outgoing, smart, and adventurous. Now she has conformed to the popular group. She continued to make friends and "in August she went away to camp" (15). Whereas David doesn't date she would "date 10 guys a month" (20). She unhesitatingly will do things to fit in. When at the art exhibition with her friends she willfully chimes in by saying "yeah, I know" (26) after her friends bash the art piece David had painted. Amy's grades slip, she used to get A's but now "she [is] getting B's and C's" (18).

Amy has always been popular and always will be, but everything else about her has changed. The child she was is now gone. David has been artistic and true to himself and always will be "for [he] has kept who [he] is." (27). There are people who will change and people who will stay the same and true to themselves, some people can stay friends through this and some people cannot. Sadly for David and Amy this is the case.