Ideas Worth Spreading

Have you heard of TED? Been to their website? No? Then you should. Here it is: www.ted.com. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and their tagline is "Ideas Worth Spreading". They're a nonprofit that hosts conferences bringing some of the most influential and forward-thinking minds from all over the world together. The speakers are asked to give "the talk of their lifetime" in less than 30 minutes. The good part? TED posts videos of all the talks online for free. They post new videos online throughout the year, on topics from "Breaking the Illusion of Skin" to "the Radical Idea of Charter Cities". All the talks are from experts in their fields. The video above is scientist Elaine Morgan, speaking on the "aquatic ape hypothesis", the idea that our distant ancestors lived in water. Seriously, these are some of the most interesting things I've ever found online.