MAIN TED RECOMMENDATION FOR TODAY / AP Lang:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - The danger of a single story (seen 31+ million times)
OTHER TED VIDEOS (newish)
What's Missing From the American Immigrant Narrative
How Symbols and Brands Shape our Humanity
Why Lakes and Rivers SHould Have the Same Rights as Humans
How to Save a Language From Extinction
Why Language is Humanity's Greatest Invention
The Healing Power of Reading
Interested in Architecture? - try one of Bjarke Ingels talks
The secret to scientific discoveries ... making mistakes
TIES TO 2021 Q3 AP Lang Prompt - Our dangerous pursuit of perfectionism is getting worse
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - The danger of a single story (seen 31+ million times)
OTHER TED VIDEOS (newish)
What's Missing From the American Immigrant Narrative
How Symbols and Brands Shape our Humanity
Why Lakes and Rivers SHould Have the Same Rights as Humans
How to Save a Language From Extinction
Why Language is Humanity's Greatest Invention
The Healing Power of Reading
Interested in Architecture? - try one of Bjarke Ingels talks
The secret to scientific discoveries ... making mistakes
TIES TO 2021 Q3 AP Lang Prompt - Our dangerous pursuit of perfectionism is getting worse
www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight
TECHNOLOGY TED VIDEOS
16 60 Minutes - The Data Brokers – if you were interested in PBS Generation Like video about the TOK issue of data mining social media users
17 PBS Generation LIKE (might show later in class) 50 minutes: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/
18 PBS NOVA: The Smartest Machine on Earth (IBM’s Watson; 50 minutes):
19 ALSO: a history lesson in the building of the Wikipedia knowledge community (from 2005): The birth of Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales on TED.com | TED Blog
20 - 60 minutes - Power of Google 2018
21 TED - We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
22 TED - Beware online filter bubbles
23 60 minutes - Faceprints and personal privacy
24 TED - why our screens make up less happy
25 PBS Frontline - DIgital Nation from 2010
26 60 minutes - are robots hurting job growth 2013
27 TED Maurice Conti - incredible inventions of intuitive AI
28 Why You Should Get Paid For Your Data
29 How to Protect Truth in the Age of MIsinformation
30 How Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook manipulate our emotions - this speaker is quite good
31 The era of blind faith in big data must end
32 Meet Spot, the dog that can run, hop and open doors (Boston Dynamics robots)
33 How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day - Tristan Harris
OTHER TED VIDEOS (mostly for TOK issues):
1. HUMAN SCI/REASON/HOW WE PRIORITIZE AND DO DECISION-MAKING (quite interesting; can stop video at min 24): Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions [ there is a Dan Gilbert 2004 video too if you like this one]
2. Algorithms/Race/Predictive Knowledge/Sociology: https://www.ted.com/talks/cathy_o_neil_the_era_of_blind_faith_in_big_data_must_end
3. How we subjectively place value on things (he did the books: Decartes Baby; Just Babies; How Pleasure Works): www.ted.com/talks/paul_bloom_the_origins_of_pleasure
2b = Then try (he’s funny): www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man
and www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_sweat_the_small_stuff
4. BRAIN SCIENCE/BRAIN DEVELOPMENT/ETHICS/PSYCHOLOGY [COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE or if you liked the baby brain lab]: www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_saxe_how_we_read_each_other_s_minds
(slightly related: www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
5. BRAIN SCIENCE/Subjective Experience of unique sense perception moment (we have shown this in class and people loved or hated it but certainly remembered it; her book is pretty good too): www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight
6. BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS (if you liked the PBS Mind over Money video or the Sway or Nudge or Predictably Irrational books)/IRRATIONALITY/ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY: www.ted.com/talks/laurie_santos_a_monkey_economy_as_irrational_as_ours
5b = Then watch = Tali Sharot: The optimism bias – which deals with another behavioral economics trap/self-delusion (PROMPT6)
7. The power of all human mind’s in the capacity of MEMORY; the nature of ACQUISTION OF KNOWLEDGE: www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do
8. FOR FUTURE MED STUDENTS: BAYESIAN RATIONALITY VS. USING OTHER METHODS IN THE PROCESS OF DIAGNOSIS: www.ted.com/talks/abraham_verghese_a_doctor_s_touch
(or consider https://www.ted.com/talks/atul_gawande_want_to_get_great_at_something_get_a_coach )
9. SENSE PERCEPTION/VISUAL TRICKS/TESTING CLAIMS: www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see
10. MUSIC/INTELLIGENCE INVOLVED IN REAL-TIME COORDINATION/RAP/fMRI analysis of creativity: Charles Limb: Your brain on improv | Video on TED.com 2010
10b = Then try his Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle | Video on TED.com 2011 (deals with cochlear implants and how ex-deaf perceive music) (can watch Benjamin Zander: Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music | Video on TED.com too or Jose Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution | Video on TED.comor Julian Treasure TED videos)
11. ARTS/PHOTO/EMOTION/ETHICS: David Griffin on how photography connects us | Video on TED.com
(maybe for art/photo as history/historian:) Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world | Video on TED.com
(maybe too: https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_peschak_dive_into_an_ocean_photographer_s_world )
12. Quirky/RACE & CULTURE STUDIES/HISTORY/GLOBALIZATION/FOOD SUPPLY: Jennifer 8. Lee hunts for General Tso | Video on TED.com
13. Weak vs Strong forms of evidence/Bias/Rigging your data/Testing claims in Natural Sciences: Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science | Video on TED.com
13b(maybe then = Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance | Talk Video | TED.com – good on scientific process/approach; an analysis of scientific method in the real world or how we organize the things we don’t know
OR 13c : http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_dare_to_disagree.html
13d: Or Misinterp or reinterp/revisions of neuroscience - Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk | Video on TED.com
14. [for High-minded abstract philosophical students PT1] Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist? | Talk Video | TED.com - semi-comic but very TOK
OR 14b: The history and nature of knowledge/ empiricism / testing knowledge claims (probably the most purely TOK thing on this page): David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | Video on TED.com or an overview of last 100 years of cognitive history James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | Video on TED.com
15. [for High-minded abstract philosophical students PT2 – a bit too academic a college lecture style] Consciousness and the nature of our humanity & BRAIN SCIENCE VISUALIZATIONS TOO: http://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness.html (Daniel Dennett has some TED videos on the issue of consciousness too)
15b ALSO consider https://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness?language=en OR https://www.ted.com/talks/john_searle_our_shared_condition_consciousness
16. Wade Davis 2008 SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY/GLOBAL STUDIES and divergant perspectives/ART/ETHICS/RELIGION: Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual | Video on TED.com (or other speech BUT WE SHOULD WATCH THIS ONE IN CLASS SO…: Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures | Video on TED.com2003)
16B Mark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t | Talk Video | TED.com – for those who might write on indigenous knowledge/people
17. The PARADIGMS we live by and its consequences/LOGOS vs MYTHOS cultures/ETHICS/RELIGION vs SCIENCE: Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify | Video on TED.com
18. Noreena Hertz: How to use experts -- and when not to | Video on TED.com
19. Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend | Talk Video | TED.com – IN 2015, Mrs Murray and Mrs Chance were saying that watching this video might actually save your life
20. Sal Khan of the Khan Academy – the future of how to teach: https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_not_test_scores
21. IF YOU NEED A HISTORIAN: https://www.ted.com/talks/doris_kearns_goodwin_on_learning_from_past_presidents
22. Should you be able to patent a human gene (patent law and ethics/enviro/human life in the Myriad Genetics case)
23. Morality and Driveless Cars: https://www.ted.com/talks/iyad_rahwan_what_moral_decisions_should_driverless_cars_make
24. The legacy of the Deep Blue (IBM) chess win vs a grandmaster http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-man-vs-the-machine-fivethirtyeight-films-signals/
25.Why Dangrous Symbols Can’t Last Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOEqzt36JEM
26.https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think
27.https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_rosling_ronnlund_see_how_the_rest_of_the_world_lives_organized_by_income
28.https://www.ted.com/talks/erica_stone_academic_research_is_publicly_funded_why_isn_t_it_publicly_available
29.https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_the_surprising_science_of_alpha_males
30.https://www.ted.com/talks/leila_takayama_what_s_it_like_to_be_a_robot
31.https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road
32.https://www.ted.com/talks/max_tegmark_how_to_get_empowered_not_overpowered_by_ai
33.https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting_better_or_worse_a_look_at_the_numbers
MISC – nice but not for the Journal
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYC-HKl4RPU&feature=youtu.be
Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature! – an interesting idea in the intersection of quantifications, enviro science, economics, etc
Case study in smartest Jeopardy contestant (besides a computer) = https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_jennings_watson_jeopardy_and_me_the_obsolete_know_it_all
Cell animators: art and science overlaps: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_bolinsky_animates_a_cell
if you are using ethics: https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_effective_altruism
what are the value of performance artists? https://www.ted.com/talks/marina_abramovic_an_art_made_of_trust_vulnerability_and_connection?language=en
? = https://www.ted.com/talks/marlene_zuk_what_we_learn_from_insects_kinky_sex_lives?language=en
naming of concepts: https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary OR https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_curzan_what_makes_a_word_real
IF YOU NEED ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE EXAMPLES: https://www.ted.com/talks/carl_safina_what_are_animals_thinking_and_feeling
Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door | Talk Video | TED.com – I really liked it, but I am an English major. He’s entertaining/funny
Defense of rationalism; semi-comic; OR John Lloyd inventories the invisible | Video on TED.com OR
Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
Damon Horowitz: We need a "moral operating system" | Talk Video | TED.com – intro to ethical systems and philosophy
Gender bias in drug dosing: https://www.ted.com/talks/alyson_mcgregor_why_medicine_often_has_dangerous_side_effects_for_women
https://www.ted.com/talks/casey_gerald_the_gospel_of_doubt
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18326395 = Matt Dawkins case study as transgender athlete
Watch Any TED video by Hans Rosling
Other video suggestions to search for on TED site (if you want to do journal on one of these SEE ME first): : TED | Talks | Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics (video), Hans Rosling (2010 or all of them), Hanna Rosin (future for girls),Noreena Hertz (when experts are wrong), Michael Shermer 2010, Cameron Herold (how to be an entrepreneur), Golan Levin, Jonathan Haidt (science study of liberals vs conservatives), Dennis vanEngelsdorp (bees), Patricia Burchat, Aguera y Arcas (Photosynth), Schwartz, Goleman, Dennett, Dawkins, Mayne, Levitt, Koontz, Woldhek, Baraniuk, Surowiecki,; Barber (on foie gras) – all @ TED TALKS = http://www.ted.com/talks?gclid=CJuKzIio5o0CFQUoZAodf0m01A
OTHERS THAT ARE MORE LIFE LESSONS but very worth watching before graduating:
· Steve Jobs graduation speech at Stanford http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html )
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo [Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture 12million views]
· https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_dinsmore_how_to_find_work_you_love?language=en
OTHER videos to consider
TECHNOLOGY TED VIDEOS
- WE ALMOST ALWAYS WATCH THIS ONE IN CLASS; VERY USEFUL about law and technology and ownership of ideas and innovations: https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity
- Like the Lessig video, another pro-“remix culture” perspective: http://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix.html
- Or the positive perspective on tech: Coursera or online-education courses: http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html
- Sherry Terkle and the anti-technology view of how tech disconnects rather than connects: http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
- Google N-gram (language evolution and ethnography): EREZ LIEBERMAN AIDEN: What we learned from 5 million books | Video on TED.com (Mark Pagel or Erin McKean or Kuhl is also good for language TOK essay people)
- Technology in how we access/see “art” content: Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web | Video on TED.com or his 2016 one https://www.ted.com/talks/amit_sood_every_piece_of_art_you_ve_ever_wanted_to_see_up_close_and_searchable (ALSO CAN CONSIDER https://www.ted.com/talks/chance_coughenour_how_your_pictures_can_help_reclaim_lost_history
- Medicine and technology: Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that | Video on TED.com OR Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine | Video on TED.com
- (historical but probably not best option) EMERGING TECHNOLOGY/PARADIGMS/GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTION/HISTORY LESSON ON TECH: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com – the history of the web
- Avi Reichental: What’s next in 3D printing | Talk Video | TED.com – a case study in a paradigm shift
- Not sure where to place this: DARPA and emerging technology of the 21st century and the ethics of its use or military use: http://www.ted.com/talks/regina_dugan_from_mach_20_glider_to_humming_bird_drone.html
- Can a computer write poetry: https://www.ted.com/talks/oscar_schwartz_can_a_computer_write_poetry
- Holograms and Haptics (computer games): https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_kipman_the_dawn_of_the_age_of_holograms OR one on augmented reality https://www.ted.com/talks/meron_gribetz_a_glimpse_of_the_future_through_an_augmented_reality_headset
- The future of virtual reality https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_milk_the_birth_of_virtual_reality_as_an_art_form or VR as the ultimate empathy machine
- The flying machines of the future https://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_meet_the_dazzling_flying_machines_of_the_future
16 60 Minutes - The Data Brokers – if you were interested in PBS Generation Like video about the TOK issue of data mining social media users
17 PBS Generation LIKE (might show later in class) 50 minutes: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/
18 PBS NOVA: The Smartest Machine on Earth (IBM’s Watson; 50 minutes):
19 ALSO: a history lesson in the building of the Wikipedia knowledge community (from 2005): The birth of Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales on TED.com | TED Blog
20 - 60 minutes - Power of Google 2018
21 TED - We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
22 TED - Beware online filter bubbles
23 60 minutes - Faceprints and personal privacy
24 TED - why our screens make up less happy
25 PBS Frontline - DIgital Nation from 2010
26 60 minutes - are robots hurting job growth 2013
27 TED Maurice Conti - incredible inventions of intuitive AI
28 Why You Should Get Paid For Your Data
29 How to Protect Truth in the Age of MIsinformation
30 How Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook manipulate our emotions - this speaker is quite good
31 The era of blind faith in big data must end
32 Meet Spot, the dog that can run, hop and open doors (Boston Dynamics robots)
33 How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day - Tristan Harris
OTHER TED VIDEOS (mostly for TOK issues):
1. HUMAN SCI/REASON/HOW WE PRIORITIZE AND DO DECISION-MAKING (quite interesting; can stop video at min 24): Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions [ there is a Dan Gilbert 2004 video too if you like this one]
2. Algorithms/Race/Predictive Knowledge/Sociology: https://www.ted.com/talks/cathy_o_neil_the_era_of_blind_faith_in_big_data_must_end
3. How we subjectively place value on things (he did the books: Decartes Baby; Just Babies; How Pleasure Works): www.ted.com/talks/paul_bloom_the_origins_of_pleasure
2b = Then try (he’s funny): www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man
and www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_sweat_the_small_stuff
4. BRAIN SCIENCE/BRAIN DEVELOPMENT/ETHICS/PSYCHOLOGY [COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE or if you liked the baby brain lab]: www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_saxe_how_we_read_each_other_s_minds
(slightly related: www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
5. BRAIN SCIENCE/Subjective Experience of unique sense perception moment (we have shown this in class and people loved or hated it but certainly remembered it; her book is pretty good too): www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight
6. BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS (if you liked the PBS Mind over Money video or the Sway or Nudge or Predictably Irrational books)/IRRATIONALITY/ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY: www.ted.com/talks/laurie_santos_a_monkey_economy_as_irrational_as_ours
5b = Then watch = Tali Sharot: The optimism bias – which deals with another behavioral economics trap/self-delusion (PROMPT6)
7. The power of all human mind’s in the capacity of MEMORY; the nature of ACQUISTION OF KNOWLEDGE: www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do
8. FOR FUTURE MED STUDENTS: BAYESIAN RATIONALITY VS. USING OTHER METHODS IN THE PROCESS OF DIAGNOSIS: www.ted.com/talks/abraham_verghese_a_doctor_s_touch
(or consider https://www.ted.com/talks/atul_gawande_want_to_get_great_at_something_get_a_coach )
9. SENSE PERCEPTION/VISUAL TRICKS/TESTING CLAIMS: www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see
10. MUSIC/INTELLIGENCE INVOLVED IN REAL-TIME COORDINATION/RAP/fMRI analysis of creativity: Charles Limb: Your brain on improv | Video on TED.com 2010
10b = Then try his Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle | Video on TED.com 2011 (deals with cochlear implants and how ex-deaf perceive music) (can watch Benjamin Zander: Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music | Video on TED.com too or Jose Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution | Video on TED.comor Julian Treasure TED videos)
11. ARTS/PHOTO/EMOTION/ETHICS: David Griffin on how photography connects us | Video on TED.com
(maybe for art/photo as history/historian:) Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world | Video on TED.com
(maybe too: https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_peschak_dive_into_an_ocean_photographer_s_world )
12. Quirky/RACE & CULTURE STUDIES/HISTORY/GLOBALIZATION/FOOD SUPPLY: Jennifer 8. Lee hunts for General Tso | Video on TED.com
13. Weak vs Strong forms of evidence/Bias/Rigging your data/Testing claims in Natural Sciences: Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science | Video on TED.com
13b(maybe then = Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance | Talk Video | TED.com – good on scientific process/approach; an analysis of scientific method in the real world or how we organize the things we don’t know
OR 13c : http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_dare_to_disagree.html
13d: Or Misinterp or reinterp/revisions of neuroscience - Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk | Video on TED.com
14. [for High-minded abstract philosophical students PT1] Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist? | Talk Video | TED.com - semi-comic but very TOK
OR 14b: The history and nature of knowledge/ empiricism / testing knowledge claims (probably the most purely TOK thing on this page): David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | Video on TED.com or an overview of last 100 years of cognitive history James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | Video on TED.com
15. [for High-minded abstract philosophical students PT2 – a bit too academic a college lecture style] Consciousness and the nature of our humanity & BRAIN SCIENCE VISUALIZATIONS TOO: http://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness.html (Daniel Dennett has some TED videos on the issue of consciousness too)
15b ALSO consider https://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness?language=en OR https://www.ted.com/talks/john_searle_our_shared_condition_consciousness
16. Wade Davis 2008 SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY/GLOBAL STUDIES and divergant perspectives/ART/ETHICS/RELIGION: Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual | Video on TED.com (or other speech BUT WE SHOULD WATCH THIS ONE IN CLASS SO…: Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures | Video on TED.com2003)
16B Mark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t | Talk Video | TED.com – for those who might write on indigenous knowledge/people
17. The PARADIGMS we live by and its consequences/LOGOS vs MYTHOS cultures/ETHICS/RELIGION vs SCIENCE: Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify | Video on TED.com
18. Noreena Hertz: How to use experts -- and when not to | Video on TED.com
19. Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend | Talk Video | TED.com – IN 2015, Mrs Murray and Mrs Chance were saying that watching this video might actually save your life
20. Sal Khan of the Khan Academy – the future of how to teach: https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_not_test_scores
21. IF YOU NEED A HISTORIAN: https://www.ted.com/talks/doris_kearns_goodwin_on_learning_from_past_presidents
22. Should you be able to patent a human gene (patent law and ethics/enviro/human life in the Myriad Genetics case)
23. Morality and Driveless Cars: https://www.ted.com/talks/iyad_rahwan_what_moral_decisions_should_driverless_cars_make
24. The legacy of the Deep Blue (IBM) chess win vs a grandmaster http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-man-vs-the-machine-fivethirtyeight-films-signals/
25.Why Dangrous Symbols Can’t Last Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOEqzt36JEM
26.https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think
27.https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_rosling_ronnlund_see_how_the_rest_of_the_world_lives_organized_by_income
28.https://www.ted.com/talks/erica_stone_academic_research_is_publicly_funded_why_isn_t_it_publicly_available
29.https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_the_surprising_science_of_alpha_males
30.https://www.ted.com/talks/leila_takayama_what_s_it_like_to_be_a_robot
31.https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road
32.https://www.ted.com/talks/max_tegmark_how_to_get_empowered_not_overpowered_by_ai
33.https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting_better_or_worse_a_look_at_the_numbers
MISC – nice but not for the Journal
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYC-HKl4RPU&feature=youtu.be
Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature! – an interesting idea in the intersection of quantifications, enviro science, economics, etc
Case study in smartest Jeopardy contestant (besides a computer) = https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_jennings_watson_jeopardy_and_me_the_obsolete_know_it_all
Cell animators: art and science overlaps: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_bolinsky_animates_a_cell
if you are using ethics: https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_effective_altruism
what are the value of performance artists? https://www.ted.com/talks/marina_abramovic_an_art_made_of_trust_vulnerability_and_connection?language=en
? = https://www.ted.com/talks/marlene_zuk_what_we_learn_from_insects_kinky_sex_lives?language=en
naming of concepts: https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary OR https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_curzan_what_makes_a_word_real
IF YOU NEED ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE EXAMPLES: https://www.ted.com/talks/carl_safina_what_are_animals_thinking_and_feeling
Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door | Talk Video | TED.com – I really liked it, but I am an English major. He’s entertaining/funny
Defense of rationalism; semi-comic; OR John Lloyd inventories the invisible | Video on TED.com OR
Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
Damon Horowitz: We need a "moral operating system" | Talk Video | TED.com – intro to ethical systems and philosophy
Gender bias in drug dosing: https://www.ted.com/talks/alyson_mcgregor_why_medicine_often_has_dangerous_side_effects_for_women
https://www.ted.com/talks/casey_gerald_the_gospel_of_doubt
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18326395 = Matt Dawkins case study as transgender athlete
Watch Any TED video by Hans Rosling
Other video suggestions to search for on TED site (if you want to do journal on one of these SEE ME first): : TED | Talks | Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics (video), Hans Rosling (2010 or all of them), Hanna Rosin (future for girls),Noreena Hertz (when experts are wrong), Michael Shermer 2010, Cameron Herold (how to be an entrepreneur), Golan Levin, Jonathan Haidt (science study of liberals vs conservatives), Dennis vanEngelsdorp (bees), Patricia Burchat, Aguera y Arcas (Photosynth), Schwartz, Goleman, Dennett, Dawkins, Mayne, Levitt, Koontz, Woldhek, Baraniuk, Surowiecki,; Barber (on foie gras) – all @ TED TALKS = http://www.ted.com/talks?gclid=CJuKzIio5o0CFQUoZAodf0m01A
OTHERS THAT ARE MORE LIFE LESSONS but very worth watching before graduating:
· Steve Jobs graduation speech at Stanford http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html )
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo [Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture 12million views]
· https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_dinsmore_how_to_find_work_you_love?language=en
OTHER videos to consider
Podcast useful episode suggestions: (oct 2021 version)
1 Radiolab: Colors
2 Radiolab: Out of Sight (on imagination, blindness, etc
3 RadioLab: Post No Evil
4 Radiolab: The Skull (storytelling, artifacts, knowledge of the past)
5 Radiolab: The Buried Bodies Cases (legal conventions, ethics, etc)
6 Radiolab: Driverless Dilemma
7 Radiolab: Translation
8 Radiolab: More or Less Human (60min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2OU4uT1U0
9 Sleepwalkers: The Watchmen (about AI and digital surveillance)
10 Uncivil podcast: The Assets (a podcast correcting the historical record about slavery; this one about big insurance companies who saw human life as a commodity)
11 Open Questions podcast: Can Helping Strangers Make Up for Past Injustices? (on how to operationalize a process for reparations)
12 Pessimists Archive: Coffee (episode 9)
13 Pessimists Archive: Recorded Music (scroll down to episode 3)
14 Pessimist Archive: The Novel (scroll to Episode 14)
15 Pessimist Archive: Teddy Bears
16 Pessimists Archive: Electricity (43 min) https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/pessimists-archive-podcast/e/54030934 (Creek grads are the voice actors)
17 Revisionist History: Hallelujah (mostly about music and form tied to that song)
18 Revisionist History: The Satire Paradox (deals with Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, artistic mockery of reality)
19 1A podcast: The Great Unknown with Marcus Du Satoy (big nat sci questions, free will)
20 Ted Radio Hour: The Unknown Brain
21 NPR'S Hidden Brain: One Head, Two Brains
22 NPR'S Hidden Brain: Vegetable Lamb (on how misinformation spreads)
23 NPR's Hidden Brain: Man Up (the prison of masculinity)
24 PBS Hidden Brain: You Can't Hit Unsend (college admissions and student social media posts)
25 PBS The Hidden Brain: Creating God (53 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/628792048/creating-god
26 PBS The Hidden Brain: The Edge Effect (38 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/02/625426015/the-edge-effect
27 NPR Throughline: Zombies (zombies as metaphor for voodoo/race)
28 NPR Throughline: The Dark Side of the Moon (our use of ex-Nazi rocket scientists)
29 NPR Code Switch: Death of a Blood Sport (cockfighting)
30 This American Life: 81 words (on the story behind removing homosexuality as a DSM disorder in 1971)
31 This American Life: In Defense of Ignorance
32 Freakanomics: Who Decides How Much a Life is Worth
33 Stuff To Blow Your Mind: Ship of Theseus
34 You Are Not So Smart: Reality
35 You are not So Smart: 124 – Belief Change Blindness (40ish min) https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart/124-belief-change-blindness
36 You are Not So Smart: The Half Life of Facts
37 You are Not So Smart: Change My View (somewhat on the value of that Reddit community in public debate)
38 You are Not So Smart: How we transferred our biases into our machines/algorithms
39 99& Invisible: 306 - Breaking Bad News (41 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaking-bad-news/
40 99% Invisible: 309 – The Vault (29 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/
41 99% Invisible: 303 – The Hair Chart (28 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-hair-chart/
42 Stuff to Blow your Mind: From the Vault – Post-Empirical Science (72 min) https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/from-the-vault-post-empirical-science.htm
43 Stuff you Should Know: How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked (50 min; at the bottom on the first page) https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/stanford-prison-experiment.htm ( fyi too on this HERE)
44 Radiolab Presents: More Perfect Union – American Pendulum Reprise (46 min; June 26 2018 episode) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/481105292/more-perfect
45 NPR Embedded: The Apology Broker (41 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619746115/the-apology-broker
46 (for Shakespeare lovers only) Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar (41 min) http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lend_me_your_ears/2018/05/lend_me_your_ears_podcast_episode_1_shakespeare_s_julius_caesar.html
47 Lexicon Valley: New Life for Dying Languages
48 Everyday Ethics: Medical Conscious
49 Everyday Ethics: The Ethics of Taking Good from Evil
50 Everyday Ethics: College (18 min; load / scroll down to April 18 2018 episode; not the greatest but kinda relevant) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/484357984/everyday-ethics
51 WorkLife: The Perils of Following Your Career Passion
52 NPR Code Switch: The Birth of a "New Negro" (for AP Lang folks; on Alain Locke)
53 Mind Matters: The Fast Track to College (the only podcast episode that explore benefits/problems of the AP program)
54 REVISIONIST HISTORY - FOOT SOLDIER OF BIRMINGHAM
55 99% INVISIBLE- RETURN OF ONATE'S FOOT
56 You Are Not So Smart ep 198 - Reflection + Insurrection (the brain basis for the Capital Hill storming)
57 NPR Rough Translation - We still Don't Say That (racism and language)
58 NPR Code Switch - is it time to say RIP to POC?
59 Reveal - Monumental Lies
60 It Was Said: RFK, A Eulogy for King
61 It Was Said - Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address
62 Hidden Brain: Laughter - The Best Medicine
63 Build For Tomorrow - How to Communicate with the Future
64 Build For Tomorrow - Do we Lose Skills Because of Technology
65 Cautionary Tales - MLK, the Jewelry Genius and the Art of Public Speaking
66 The American Life - The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled
67 REPARATIONS - Code Switch - Show Me The Money
68 Revisionist HIstory - Lord of the (College) Rankings
69 RadioLab - 60 Words, 20 Years
PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE TO:
It Was Said
WNYC Radiolab
NPR's Hidden Brain
99% Invisible (design/architecture)
Inner Cosmos (David Eagleman)
Huberman Lab
Hard Fork (NY Times)
The Gray Area w/ Sean Illing
Anthropocene Reviewed
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History (most recent season isn't great)
NPR Invisibilia
You are Not So Smart
Pessimists Archive / Build For Tomorrow
On Being with Krista Tippett
Philosophize This!
Conversations with Coleman
This American Life
Against the Rules (Michael Lewis)
NPR Code Switch
Crazy/Genius
Uncivil
Sleepwalkers
NPR Throughline
Cautionary Tales
Decoder Ring
Spectacular Failures
Slate's Lexicon Valley - for future linguists
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect (on the Supreme Court) - start back in Season 1
Freakonomics Radio
NPR Rough Translation
Stuff to Blow Your Mind
Philosophy Biteseveryday
Everyday Ethics
The Happiness Lab
WSJ's The Future of Everything
Serial (season 1) & S-Town
50 things that made the modern economy
Invention
Ologies w/ Alie Ward
1 Radiolab: Colors
2 Radiolab: Out of Sight (on imagination, blindness, etc
3 RadioLab: Post No Evil
4 Radiolab: The Skull (storytelling, artifacts, knowledge of the past)
5 Radiolab: The Buried Bodies Cases (legal conventions, ethics, etc)
6 Radiolab: Driverless Dilemma
7 Radiolab: Translation
8 Radiolab: More or Less Human (60min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ2OU4uT1U0
9 Sleepwalkers: The Watchmen (about AI and digital surveillance)
10 Uncivil podcast: The Assets (a podcast correcting the historical record about slavery; this one about big insurance companies who saw human life as a commodity)
11 Open Questions podcast: Can Helping Strangers Make Up for Past Injustices? (on how to operationalize a process for reparations)
12 Pessimists Archive: Coffee (episode 9)
13 Pessimists Archive: Recorded Music (scroll down to episode 3)
14 Pessimist Archive: The Novel (scroll to Episode 14)
15 Pessimist Archive: Teddy Bears
16 Pessimists Archive: Electricity (43 min) https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/pessimists-archive-podcast/e/54030934 (Creek grads are the voice actors)
17 Revisionist History: Hallelujah (mostly about music and form tied to that song)
18 Revisionist History: The Satire Paradox (deals with Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, artistic mockery of reality)
19 1A podcast: The Great Unknown with Marcus Du Satoy (big nat sci questions, free will)
20 Ted Radio Hour: The Unknown Brain
21 NPR'S Hidden Brain: One Head, Two Brains
22 NPR'S Hidden Brain: Vegetable Lamb (on how misinformation spreads)
23 NPR's Hidden Brain: Man Up (the prison of masculinity)
24 PBS Hidden Brain: You Can't Hit Unsend (college admissions and student social media posts)
25 PBS The Hidden Brain: Creating God (53 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/628792048/creating-god
26 PBS The Hidden Brain: The Edge Effect (38 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/02/625426015/the-edge-effect
27 NPR Throughline: Zombies (zombies as metaphor for voodoo/race)
28 NPR Throughline: The Dark Side of the Moon (our use of ex-Nazi rocket scientists)
29 NPR Code Switch: Death of a Blood Sport (cockfighting)
30 This American Life: 81 words (on the story behind removing homosexuality as a DSM disorder in 1971)
31 This American Life: In Defense of Ignorance
32 Freakanomics: Who Decides How Much a Life is Worth
33 Stuff To Blow Your Mind: Ship of Theseus
34 You Are Not So Smart: Reality
35 You are not So Smart: 124 – Belief Change Blindness (40ish min) https://soundcloud.com/youarenotsosmart/124-belief-change-blindness
36 You are Not So Smart: The Half Life of Facts
37 You are Not So Smart: Change My View (somewhat on the value of that Reddit community in public debate)
38 You are Not So Smart: How we transferred our biases into our machines/algorithms
39 99& Invisible: 306 - Breaking Bad News (41 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaking-bad-news/
40 99% Invisible: 309 – The Vault (29 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/
41 99% Invisible: 303 – The Hair Chart (28 min) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-hair-chart/
42 Stuff to Blow your Mind: From the Vault – Post-Empirical Science (72 min) https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/from-the-vault-post-empirical-science.htm
43 Stuff you Should Know: How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked (50 min; at the bottom on the first page) https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/stanford-prison-experiment.htm ( fyi too on this HERE)
44 Radiolab Presents: More Perfect Union – American Pendulum Reprise (46 min; June 26 2018 episode) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/481105292/more-perfect
45 NPR Embedded: The Apology Broker (41 min) https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619746115/the-apology-broker
46 (for Shakespeare lovers only) Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar (41 min) http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lend_me_your_ears/2018/05/lend_me_your_ears_podcast_episode_1_shakespeare_s_julius_caesar.html
47 Lexicon Valley: New Life for Dying Languages
48 Everyday Ethics: Medical Conscious
49 Everyday Ethics: The Ethics of Taking Good from Evil
50 Everyday Ethics: College (18 min; load / scroll down to April 18 2018 episode; not the greatest but kinda relevant) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/484357984/everyday-ethics
51 WorkLife: The Perils of Following Your Career Passion
52 NPR Code Switch: The Birth of a "New Negro" (for AP Lang folks; on Alain Locke)
53 Mind Matters: The Fast Track to College (the only podcast episode that explore benefits/problems of the AP program)
54 REVISIONIST HISTORY - FOOT SOLDIER OF BIRMINGHAM
55 99% INVISIBLE- RETURN OF ONATE'S FOOT
56 You Are Not So Smart ep 198 - Reflection + Insurrection (the brain basis for the Capital Hill storming)
57 NPR Rough Translation - We still Don't Say That (racism and language)
58 NPR Code Switch - is it time to say RIP to POC?
59 Reveal - Monumental Lies
60 It Was Said: RFK, A Eulogy for King
61 It Was Said - Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address
62 Hidden Brain: Laughter - The Best Medicine
63 Build For Tomorrow - How to Communicate with the Future
64 Build For Tomorrow - Do we Lose Skills Because of Technology
65 Cautionary Tales - MLK, the Jewelry Genius and the Art of Public Speaking
66 The American Life - The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled
67 REPARATIONS - Code Switch - Show Me The Money
68 Revisionist HIstory - Lord of the (College) Rankings
69 RadioLab - 60 Words, 20 Years
PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE TO:
It Was Said
WNYC Radiolab
NPR's Hidden Brain
99% Invisible (design/architecture)
Inner Cosmos (David Eagleman)
Huberman Lab
Hard Fork (NY Times)
The Gray Area w/ Sean Illing
Anthropocene Reviewed
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History (most recent season isn't great)
NPR Invisibilia
You are Not So Smart
Pessimists Archive / Build For Tomorrow
On Being with Krista Tippett
Philosophize This!
Conversations with Coleman
This American Life
Against the Rules (Michael Lewis)
NPR Code Switch
Crazy/Genius
Uncivil
Sleepwalkers
NPR Throughline
Cautionary Tales
Decoder Ring
Spectacular Failures
Slate's Lexicon Valley - for future linguists
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect (on the Supreme Court) - start back in Season 1
Freakonomics Radio
NPR Rough Translation
Stuff to Blow Your Mind
Philosophy Biteseveryday
Everyday Ethics
The Happiness Lab
WSJ's The Future of Everything
Serial (season 1) & S-Town
50 things that made the modern economy
Invention
Ologies w/ Alie Ward