No 137: Friend of this blog 2

SOME of you studied with Tang, first and so far only winner of the Bellerbys Nobel Prize for Economics (see post 32).

He is currently studying for a BA back in Singapore, and he recently wrote to me about an excellent website: http://www.ted.com/.

This organisation invites all kinds of famous and/or clever people to talk, the only rule being that they can have to limit their speech to less than 20 minutes.

To get you started, I really like this guy
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html

(By the way, he is using the amazing Gapminder software (go to http://www.gapminder.org/) which I will be using a lot in class next year. I'll blog about it soon.)

You can see that subtitles are available for the talks and you can also read the transcript while the speaker is talking.

I also like this guy http://www.ted.com/search?q=ariely&x=0&y=0.

As always, please share with us any other interesting things you find.

This isn't from TED but it's nice: