Produced by NPR, these thematic collections run about 45-60 minutes each and provide several TED talks on a given topic. Latest episodes appear on this page; browse the archive for the full list. Some of the most famous/popular TED talks are featured.
Presented on TED.COM, filmed Feb 2010 and posted April 2010. Wujec discusses his experience using the Marshmallow Challenge in team-building exercises. Observing the challenge 100s of times, he sees that kindergarteners do better than recent business school grads (better at prototyping, less jockeying for leadership), CEOs do well, but do even better with an executive admin on their team because facilitation is important. High stakes (he's offered a cash reward) works better once the team has acquired skills; high stakes with no skills is a disaster.
Conrad Wolfram presentation on TED.com (filmed July 2010; posted Nov 2010). Wolfram argues that math applications are all around us, and that people in a ever-wider variety of workplaces are excited about math...but students are not. Wolfram argues that bringing computers into the math classroom would help improve math's relevancy -- and build excitement as well. Use the tag wolfram to look at his "knowledge engine," Wolfram Alpha.
Tagline: A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshine thinking and teamwork. Similar to TED talks, but with a (so far) much smaller archive, each talk in this series focuses on solving a "moonshot" problem, generally through significant and radical innovation. From their About page, "Solve for X is a place to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems."
By Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman for the Newark Star-Ledger, May 5 2010. NJ Governor Christie is appointing a panel to study higher education issues in New Jersey; the panel will be led by former governor (and former university president) Tom Kean.