The TED Experience
By Mr JM
Jonathan Drori
On TED.com you can find more of the TED speakers. If you have any interest in learning, if you’ve wondered about what is going on in our world, if you just like to think or be entertained by bright minds, take yourself to the TED site and spend some time there.
You know that feeling you get when you’ve spent the night watching TV and you can barely keep your eyes open as you head for bed? That dead in the head sensation which is really caused by the fact your brain has been put to sleep hours before by the mind numbing litany of sex, violence and enforced messages to buy and consume? That almost buried feeling that somehow, without really meaning to, you’ve wasted yet another night in an endless procession of nights without meaning or originality, trapped by the flash and glamour of the idiot box?
Watch TED instead. I can guarantee you will not have those sensations and feelings. You may have trouble leaving the screen, but your brain will not be numbed, your thoughts will not be tied into the straight-jacket ‘CONSUME’ pathways dictated by Corporations interested only in taking all your money and you will know you have seen Life happening in front of you.
As a tiny taster, a mere glimpse of what you may find on TED, here are some questions asked by Jonathan Drori as he talks about ‘Why we don’t understand as much as we think…’
1. A seed weighs almost nothing – where does the tree get all the wood?
2. Can you light a lamp bulb with a battery and one wire & could you draw a diagram of how to do it??
3. Why is it hotter in Summer than in Winter?
4. Can you draw a plan diagram of the Solar System showing the shape of the orbits?
See if you can answer these questions – be honest and write the answers down, and then go listen to Jonathan at YouTube.
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