What’s your all-time favorite TED Talk?
As you may or may not know, at least 25% of a TEDx event must consist of TED Talks screenings. Choosing which ones to present is a very difficult task, but we want to make the most out of it and find out which Talks our audience want to see. So we’d like to ask you to “vote” for your favorite TED Talk.
Since you are reading this, you probably spent some time on TED.com watching videos, and you surely remember that one special speaker who touched you more deeply than any others. Please let us know which one you’d like to share with the other TEDx Geneva attendees, and post it in the comments below. And of course, feel free to vote for a Talk which was submitted by someone else too.
Thanks.
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
Posted on 22-Oct-09 at 8:01 pm | Permalink
Yes Dan Pink, definitely
These ones are pretty nice also
William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind
Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales
Posted on 22-Oct-09 at 8:27 pm | Permalink
Hans Rosling’s new insights on poverty: amazing Talk!
Posted on 23-Oct-09 at 10:49 am | Permalink
Hum… I have quite a few favorites… If I were to choose a couple I guess i’d select the first Hans Rosling talk, as well as the Jeff Han multitouch demo, which was just mind-blowing this being before any manufacturer had implemented (or at least publicly) this tech in anything…
Posted on 23-Oct-09 at 5:07 pm | Permalink
My favorites are Jill Bolte Taylor, Ray Kurzweil, Janine
Benyus, and Sir Ken Robinson.
Posted on 24-Oct-09 at 7:26 pm | Permalink
Here is my favorite Helen Fisher studies the brain in love : http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/helen_fisher_studies_the_brain_in_love.html
Dan Pink is also one of my favorite , and also Alain de Botton
Posted on 29-Oct-09 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
Mmm, I also like Hans Rosling, but would like engaging with what Richard Dawkins, Ken Robinson, Lee Smolin and Dan Ariely have to say.
One of the most important idea I found on TED is given by Peter Donnelly. People have a very poor understanding of stats, when they actually are everywhere nowadays. This then would link to the short call by Arthur Benjamin.
Posted on 02-Nov-09 at 9:27 am | Permalink
Hans Rosling when he swallows the “baïonnette” at the end or Jill Bolt
Posted on 03-Nov-09 at 4:14 pm | Permalink
Dawkins on ‘Is the Universe queerer than we can suppose’. Close seconds to Hans Rosling, Lee Smolins, Aimee Mullins, Helen Fischer, and Eva Ensler. Tough, very tough.
Posted on 15-Nov-09 at 11:43 pm | Permalink
1. Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen
2. Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight
3. David Kelley on human-centered design
Posted on 18-Nov-09 at 12:39 pm | Permalink
1) Tony Robbins: about motivation
2) Johnny Lee: Wii Remote hacks
3) Hans Rosling and his stats
Posted on 24-Nov-09 at 12:17 pm | Permalink
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity. She’s fueled by a mix of intelligence, passion and chatty exuberance which makes her irresistible.
Posted on 01-Dec-09 at 7:27 pm | Permalink
I love Elizabeth Gilbert’s talk too. She combines wisdom and lightness in a very special way, which is only hers.
Posted on 02-Dec-09 at 6:12 pm | Permalink
Hans Roslings the best stats you’ve ever seen – got me completey hooked on Tedtalks with his mixture of fresh insights, easy manner and humorous but memorable presentations – not to mention the awesome graphics.
Posted on 04-Dec-09 at 4:51 pm | Permalink
I love Elizabeth Gilbert’s talk too. She combines wisdom and lightness in a very special way, which is only hers.
Posted on 19-May-10 at 6:03 pm | Permalink
Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
Posted on 20-Sep-10 at 2:40 pm | Permalink
Sir Ken Robinson
‘Schools kill creativity’
Posted on 01-Dec-10 at 3:29 pm | Permalink
Without any hesitation, http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Posted on 02-Dec-10 at 11:02 am | Permalink
My favorite TED was this one: Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat… I found it just perfect and really surprising when we don’t know so many things about feelings like love… is so surprising because people usually look at those things as given… and then the academic curiosity can come to something like this is just really great
Posted on 01-Nov-11 at 10:10 pm | Permalink
Chris Abani: On humanity
Posted on 20-Feb-13 at 10:54 am | Permalink
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Posted on 30-Mar-13 at 8:35 pm | Permalink
David Jensen at the Geneva TedX April conference.
Posted on 21-Apr-13 at 8:21 am | Permalink
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Posted on 25-Apr-13 at 8:16 pm | Permalink