The Post-Modern Synthesis

10 mindful minutes to clear your brain of everything.  Do nothing.  At all!  Get away from the world for a few minutes to recharge.  Andy Pu...

Tony Robbins brings his powerful speaking ability as a life coach to TED.  He helps people make their invisible dreams become a physical rea...

David Kwong writes crossword puzzles for the New York Times.  And he's a magician.  Sounds like my kind of guy.  He spoke at TED about w...

Charlie Todd does improv in New York City.  In one of my favorites, he talks about the shared experience of the absurd.  People doing weird ...

Everyone wants to become successful, but how do you stay successful?  Richard St. John tells a quick story of building, collapsing and rebui...

Have you wanted to try something new or change something old about your life?  Matt Cutts tells TED to try anything, anything at all for 30 ...

According to Dr. House, Everybody Lies!  Everybody.  They may be lies to make people feel better, but that doesn't make them any less un...

Ric Elias was a passenger on the fateful flight that left NYC only to be landed in the Hudson River.  He talks to TED with the clarity that ...

Keith Barry describes himself as a mentalist.  He steps onto the TED stage to perform some brain magic in one of my favorite videos of all t...

The Mythbusters bring a excitement and beauty to the scientific process that inspires millions of kids in the science classroom.  I used the...

I love magic.  The acting, the misdirection.  All of it playing on the frailty of our senses and perceptions.  Magic and neuroscience go tog...

Derek Sivers has given several short, but great talks at TED conferences.  Concise and funny seems to fit his style.  In this one, Derek use...

One of my favorite parts of the PY1 year was becoming certified to provide immunizations.  The vaccination program of modern science is one ...

Every level of education talks about leadership.  We talked about in high school sports and now again in the midst of pharmacy school.  Ther...

As the cartoonist of xkcd comics , Randall Munroe combines science and comedy in a simple but creative way.  His famously funny stick figure...

Most people know to look at body language to really know what people are thinking.  If you want to know if someone is paying attention to yo...

Rory Sutherland, an incredibly funny advertising man, talks to TED about Value.  In a world running out of resources, we should focus on mak...

A few year's ago, Jamie Oliver gave an inspired talk about food.  No one can doubt that America has an eating disorder.  We eat way too ...

I love the movie Jurassic Park.  Twenty years ago, the Sci-Fi classic made popular an intriguing question.  Can we bring back extinct specie...

Heribert Waltzke lets us know that our digestive system contains over one hundred million neurons.  While we like to think that our brain co...