Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
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TEDTalks Google Spreadsheet - 1 views
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This Google Spreadsheet has a listing of all of the TED talks from 2006 through to 2010. It includes a short summary of the talk as well as listings by date, conference and speaker first name
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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"Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how."
A Difference: Math @ TED - 1 views
What Google and Facebook Are Hiding; TED Talk - 0 views
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I was sent this video today. Here's a case in point that Google, Facebook and other organisations are tailoring the web. Eli Pariser of the progressive organization MoveOn says the Internet is hiding things from us, and we don't even know it.
What we learned from 5 million books | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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"Jean-Baptiste Michel looks at how we can use large volumes of data to better understand our world."
Don't forget TED for teaching « Brave new world - 0 views
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