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Last month Hans Rosling, the man who made statistics sing and dance, died in Sweden.  I've posted some of his TED talks here at the Flo...

Speaking of Orwell, here is an outstanding Ted talk by Glenn Greenwald (h/t Jim). Has the best response I've seen so far to the "...

This delightful Ted video was posted by Andrew over at Multicultural Meanderings.  Hans Rosling is back with his son Ola to explain How Not ...

Another very powerful Ted talk. Here is Ernesto Sirolli , an evangelist in the area of sustainable development, giving his unvarnished opini...

Pop quiz time at the Flophouse.  Yesterday I took each of the Frenchlings aside and asked them to tell me who Nikola Tesla was.  The elder F...

Watching Hans Rosling work his magic is better than eating an entire box of vanilla-flavored raspberry-filled Enigma Cornettos . A lesser...

Wonderful Ted Talk by Rory Sutherland who is a great speaker and quite a hoot.  Among the gems in his talk is this great line: "If, a...

Remember books? Vaguely.  Every since I got my Kindle last year the ratio of electronic books I buy to physical ones is about 20 to 1.  It...

This is wonderful.  In a few short minutes Derek Silvers shows that what you think is "normal" depends very much on your cultural ...

Fascinating talk by Paddy Ashdown (former MP in the British Parliament).  I think he may be right to call the wars of the 20th century as th...

This is a great talk that I really appreciated because I finally got a clear rationale for why I have to type in those darn funny characters...

This was just shared by a friend on Facebook and after watching it I wanted to post it right away. Ms. Moyer is a young American woman who...

This is stunning.  Watch it before you start your morning and, I promise you, your day will be very different.

This is so good I just had to post it.  Phil Plait gives a very engaging and sometimes quite funny talk about asteroids.  Some interesting (...

This Ted talk is really inspiring.  The speaker, an American of Bangladeshi origin, was mistakenly added to a surveillance list and was drop...

Using "analog teaching technology" from Ikea (of all places). I am in awe of Hans Rosling.  This man makes data come alive and h...

This is hysterically funny and had me glued to my Mac this morning.  The speakers, Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, are quite ...