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The 10 Best TED Talks of 2011 Watching videos online is usually considered fun, but generally a waste of time. Not so with TED videos, which are uniformly interesting, educational, inspiring, and enjoyable. If you haven't spent much time (or any) checking out TED videos, you should – and to help with that, I've compiled what seem to be the very best 10 TED videos of 2011. It was a grueling task, combing through the cream of the crop on the TED site, but somebody had to do it. Some of the talks may have been filmed prior to 2011 but all of the talks here were posted in 2011. How I Became 100 Artists You don't need to be an artist to appreciate Shea Hembrey's "How I became 100 artists," but if you are it's even more amazing. A Modern Take on Piano, Violin, Cello If music is more your thing, then the "Modern Take on Piano, Violin, Cello" entry from the Ahn Trio is a must-watch (and listen). 3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed Learning experiences like this, I could do without. How to Spot a Liar Your Favorites?

Stem Cell Basics: Introduction Laboratory studies of stem cells enable scientists to learn about the cells’ essential properties and what makes them different from specialized cell types. Scientists are already using stem cells in the laboratory to screen new drugs and to develop model systems to study normal growth and identify the causes of birth defects. Blog de Eduard Punset Are We Having Fun Yet? Argentina is home to two amusement parks and one zoo where having fun means completely ignoring the voice in your head that says, “This is not normal.” I know this because I recently visited all three and returned home physically and mentally battered. Does a weekend spent ambling around a Christian “experience,” watching children pretend to run a government, and petting adult lions sound enticing to you? Entering Tierra Santa inspires the thought, “What would Jesus do if he paid $8 to enter a theme park that depicted the CliffsNotes version of his life via kitschy revues and fiberglass statues?” Before arriving at a suitable answer to this question, I was distracted by a line of women in flowing kaftans. Billed as the world’s first religious theme park, Tierra Santa (Spanish for “Holy Land”) swung open its pearly gates 11 years ago on a 17-acre plot that was formerly a soccer field. I joined the eager throngs and witnessed what amounted to a Showbiz Pizza version of the Second Coming.

Intuición Sea Creature Self-Portrait 150 Million Years in the Making Dr. Phil Wilby and his team were thrilled to find the famed Victorian dig site in Wiltshire that had been lost for nearly 170 years. But when they dug in and examined an ordinary-looking rock, they found something they never expected: a perfectly preserved, 150 million-year-old ink sac. The ink inside was so well preserved that they were able to take a small amount of it, combine it with an ammonia solution, and make an ink with which they drew the creature’s portrait and wrote its Latin name: Belemnotheutis antiquus. The squid-like creatures died in droves in the area of the dig site approximately 155 million years ago. (image via: GNN) The entire site was a treasure trove of the remarkably intact sea creatures. Normally only the hard parts of animals are fossilized, like bones and shells.

Ken Robinson Sir Ken Robinson (Liverpool, Inglaterra, 4 de marzo de 1950) es un educador, escritor y conferenciante británico. Doctor por la Universidad de Londres, investigando sobre la aplicación del teatro en la educación. Robinson es considerado un experto en asuntos relacionados con la creatividad, la calidad de la enseñanza, la innovación y los recursos humanos. Biografía[editar] Ken fue uno de los siete hijos que tuvieron James y Ethel Robinson. Durante tres años asistió a la antigua escuela de Liverpool para posteriormente seguir educándose en el instituto en Cheshire hasta 1968. Robinson es un brillante conferenciante. Vida profesional[editar] Durante cuatro años (1985-1989), Robinson fue el director del proyecto The Arts in Schools Project, iniciativa que pretendían mejorar la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las artes en las escuelas británicas. Desde 1989 hasta 2001 fue profesor de educación artística y portavoz del departamento de educación artística en la Universidad de Warwick.