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OK, if you are looking for an experience that will transform you emotionally, watch Joan Halifax's TED talk at TED Women 2010. This is an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energizing talk about compassion, empathy, and being human.

If you could "fix" or re-direct math education, what would you do? IMO, Arthur Benjamin NAILS it in this brief 3ish minute video.

This is a wonderful short piece. Highly creative, interesting. It shows the integration of technology-art. Fascinating!

You will also like this RSA animate version of a talk by Sir Ken Robinson: http://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U

Excellent visualizations and explanations on world population growth. Particularly good is the modeling of world population with boxes beginning around 10:30, but the entire talk is definitely worth it!

Really fascinating TED Video on a mission to rescue Penguins from a dangerous oil spill. 20,000 birds were adversely effected and the 1,000 of volunteers rescued nearly 19,000 of them. A 17 year old adolescent was the inventor of the degreaser that was used.

Great TED talk on design thinking. We used the process in the Lovett workshop this weekend.

Marco Tempest demonstrates his artist, magic talents with technology. He worked with other through open-sourced software to build an augmented reality mapping system. Really fascinating.