Our weekly YouTube roundup is usually a reprieve from your mentally stimulating (yeah, right) work day. Not today, folks. Today, you must think, as this week’s theme is: TEDTalks.
The 2011 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off next week in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk about innovation, change and the future.
What we dig most about the TED conference are the talks that it yields, videos of which are all archived on the organization’s website.
Keep an eye on Mashable in the coming week for our TED coverage, but, in the meantime, get some learnin’ below.
Dan Ariely Asks: Are We in Control of Our Decisions?
Zachary Sniderman: Making absurdity both hilarious and brilliant.
Thomas Thwaites: How I Built a Toaster — From Scratch
Josh Catone: Thomas Thwaites’s attempt to build a toaster from scratch — including collecting and refining all the raw materials — is an interesting commentary on our globalized society.
Brian Cox: What Really Goes on at the Large Hadron Collider
Amy-Mae Elliott: Here Brian Cox explains what happens at the LHC (and more importantly why it’s such a fascinating experiment) in his typically accessible and engaging style.
Madeleine Albright: On Being a Woman and a Diplomat
Stacy Green: Because everything that Madam Secretary says is awesome and hilarious.
Amber Case: We Are All Cyborgs Now
Emily Banks: Amber Case provides a fascinating anthropological perspective on our modern tools and tech.
David Blaine: How I Held My Breath For 17 Minutes
Christina Warren’s pick
Jacek Utko: Can design Save the Newspaper?
Meghan Peters: Can it?
Jake Shimabukuro Plays “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Brenna Ehrlich: I dig the uke.
Alexis Ohanian: How To Make a Splash in Social Media
Matt Silverman: Funny + Social + Good Cause + Reddit = YEAH
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