Midas Oracle .ORG » TED http://www.midasoracle.org Prediction Markets, etc. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:20:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Building a dinosaur from a chicken — [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/06/20/jack-horner-building-a-dinosaur-from-a-chicken-video/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/06/20/jack-horner-building-a-dinosaur-from-a-chicken-video/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:53:58 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=25302

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/06/20/jack-horner-building-a-dinosaur-from-a-chicken-video/feed/ 0 Tyler Cowen on the technology-based economic expansion — [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/05/27/tyler-cowen-ted-x-east-the-great-stagnation/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/05/27/tyler-cowen-ted-x-east-the-great-stagnation/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 08:05:29 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=24882

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/05/27/tyler-cowen-ted-x-east-the-great-stagnation/feed/ 0 TED: Awesome Knowledge Videos http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/31/ted-awesome-knowledge-videos/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/31/ted-awesome-knowledge-videos/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:04:28 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15845 Continue reading →]]> What are you going to do this Summer? My advice: Don’t watch TV, don’t go to the movies.

Instead, download all the TED videos from YouTube. (Use Video Download Helper to download the videos on your hard drive.)

I have downloaded about 200 videos. Amazing people.

Peter Hirshberg: The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry

Steven Johnson: The Web and the city

Hans Rosling: No more boring data

Qi Zhang’s electrifying organ performance:

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/31/ted-awesome-knowledge-videos/feed/ 0 Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump crises – TED 2009 http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/04/27/alex-tabarrok-on-how-ideas-trump-crises-ted-2009/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/04/27/alex-tabarrok-on-how-ideas-trump-crises-ted-2009/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:55:11 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=13675

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/04/27/alex-tabarrok-on-how-ideas-trump-crises-ted-2009/feed/ 0 Nate Silver at TED 2009: How does race affect votes? http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/04/24/nate-silver-at-ted-2009-how-does-race-affect-votes/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/04/24/nate-silver-at-ted-2009-how-does-race-affect-votes/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:11:14 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=13624

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/04/24/nate-silver-at-ted-2009-how-does-race-affect-votes/feed/ 0 The best TED TALKS video —ever http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/04/16/the-best-ted-talks-video-ever/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/04/16/the-best-ted-talks-video-ever/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:35:26 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=13590 Shai Agassi says it’s electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.

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]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/02/08/nate-silver-ted-2009/feed/ 0 Nate Silver at TED 2009 http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/01/14/nate-silver-at-ted-2009/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/01/14/nate-silver-at-ted-2009/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:19:21 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=12633 TED 2009

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