is there a string theory type rebuttal to this?

Serge Lecture: How did the Universe Begin?

This was filmed on October 12th, 2009.

Just posted on TED's website:

Hans Rosling: Asia's Rise-- How and When?

I liked this video.

Evolutionary Arms Race

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...&view=2&emb=1#

was just gonna post this, Hans Rosling i think has more TED talks than anyone and he never fails to impress.

http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_d...astrolabe.html

recent talk about the Astrolabe, basically the iPhone of the 1400's

http://www.ted.com/talks/marcus_du_s..._s_riddle.html

talk about symmetry, really cool

but yeah i agree, i find myself interested in far fewer of the talks.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Death by Black Hole (and asteroids)
http://fora.tv/2008/02/19/Neil_DeGra...le#fullprogram

Greaaatttt video on how we make decisions. So good.

http://fora.tv/2008/12/10/Dan_Ariely...ional_Behavior

video on longevity and aging:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/1...onger.webcast/
dr. sanjay gupta interviews aubrey de grey and dan buettner

Wubbo Ockels on Time and Gravity

http://www.tedxamsterdam.nl/2009/vid...e-and-gravity/

Very interesting if you liked the talks about illusions by our own mind.

Plato: The Apology of Socrates pt.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmQBUqxxY6Y

Dont watch the video imo, but this guy's voice is a great Socrates imo. The rest of the series is linked in the video.

http://oyc.yale.edu/political-scienc...class-sessions

This is the same oh so sexy Yale site but check out the list on this class! Philosophy score! This guy is very smart and does a fantastic job making you think more in-depth about texts most of us have read on our own. I especially like his talks about Plato's Republic.

Hunt for Supermassive Black Holes- Andrea Ghez

I just watched this. The lady seemed a bit loopy but was still informative and interesting.

ha, yeah her voice was kind of annoying huh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZFIy2mfyE

Robert Wright is a genius. If you haven't read his books, "The Moral Animal" and "Non-Zero", I highly recommend you check them out.

In this TED talk, he speaks fast and covers a lot of ground in just 20 minutes.

Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness," a game-theory term describing how players with linked fortunes tend to cooperate for mutual benefit. This dynamic has guided our biological and cultural evolution, he says -- but our unwillingness to understand one another, as in the clash between the Muslim world and the West, will lead to all of us losing the "game." Once we recognize that life is a non-zero-sum game, in which we all must cooperate to succeed, it will force us to see that moral progress -- a move toward empathy -- is our only hope.

Adam Smith ftw?

From your description it seems a lot like a theory I posited:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/41...ective-641159/

Ok, watched it. Exquisitely good and powerful talk.

I can't see how this guy isn't a staunch libertarian btw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipfqKyxm5Hc

This is Rives doing a quick talk at TED2006. I've been a person that never liked the more artistic stuff at TED but after someone here posted a poem called "storm" by Tim Minchin (check it out if you haven't, its great) I've started to listen to this stuff more and really have enjoyed it.

Harvard Lectures: Justice with Michael Sandel

http://www.justiceharvard.org/index....&id=9&Itemid=5

WHY DOES THE UNIVERSE LOOK THE WAY IT DOES?
A Conversation with Sean Carroll
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/carr...index.html#vid

I have little idea what he's talking about but it sounds interesting.

Substance dualism (by QualiaSoup)
Since ancient times, many attempts have been made to account for the relationship between mind and body. This video examines the inherent flaws in the philosophy of substance dualism, along with some of the fallacious reasoning often put forward to support it.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPn5dXfTvA

i think i seen a video of this technology before but this one is new and showcases more developments.

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

would be awesome if everyone had those.

The Known Universe by American Museum of Natural History.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U


Warning: this video will trip you out. (personally, I like that)

zomg amazing!