Horizontal Segmentation

Malcolm Gladwell is really good. Here is story telling at its best courtesy of, yet again, TED Talks. This one is about spaghetti sauce on the surface. On a deeper level, it is a penetrating look at horizontal segmentation and the transformation of perspective in problem solving from one of pursuits for universality to that [...]

Picturing Excess

Truly enlightening. Here is another one from the reservoir of knowledge:

Exploration of a Stroke from Within a Stroke

I am impressed by those who engage in a thought process about an experience that is being had. This is a great example of that active form of learning; living and learning simultaneously! Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor explains, in a vivid talk given at TED Talks – a reservoir of knowledge, the experience she [...]

The Moment Social Media Became News

Here is an example of the kind of intellectually edifying stuff one can find at TED talks. James Surowiecki gives a good presentation on the emergence of social media post the 2005 Tsunami as a serious contender in news gathering and asks three relevant questions about blogging and wisdom of crowds:

What do blogs tell us about [...]

Reservoir of Knowledge

In the electronic age, where accessibility of and access to information has been made dramatically easier, TED Talks is a very good example of a readily accessible and effective reservoir of knowledge. There are many other places where one can find videos of educational materials. But, I would argue that those that have as a high [...]