One of the topics I think I need to understand more is the reality or otherwise of human impact on climate change. My knowledge of that to date has been limited to the overwhelming media bias towards our culpability in that regard, and our consequent responsibility to decrease CO2 emissions. South African Lewis Pugh astonished…
Mixed with the great speeches at TED, there are plenty of duds. But this one is a wonderful description of the way conductors communicate with their orchestras. Itay Talgam compares the techniques of von Karajan, Bernstein and others. It’s just a pity he didn’t include Danny Kaye!
Alain de Botton‘s presentation at TED 2009 has greatly inspired me. (And BTW, the podcasts that come from TED are by far the most informative and diverse thought-provokers I have come across.) Snobbery: “A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who…
In a podcast from TED, Clay Shirky makes some interesting points about the distinguishing characteristics of modern media… “The moment we are living through … is the largest increase in expressive capability in human history” Four media revolutions in the past 500 years: Printing press Telegraph and telephone Recorded media other than print: photos, sound,…
