Harry Schwartz Eats the World » TED http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world Figuratively. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:30:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Strandbeests http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/strandbeests http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/strandbeests#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:32:17 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1363

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who specializes in building artificial animals.

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Anyone who thought the Minority Report computer was cool should watch Pranav Mistry’s TED talk and gape in awe. The world is going to be a very strange place within a very short time.

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This blog could easily turn into a collection of TED talks. Here’s Stanford biologist Deborah Gordon talking about emergent behaviors in ant colonies.

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Swarthmore psychologist Barry Schwartz discusses, among other things, the relation between systems of incentives and practical moral wisdom. I absolutely love the TED talks.

In particular I like his comment that scripted education prevents disaster but ensures mediocrity.

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