Watch today (Jan 14) and respond to the knowledge issues raised in one the TED videos of interest to YOU (yes, you, the knower)!
(Directions: watch as many as possible (use full screen mode) in 50
minutes THEN PICK ONE TED VIDEO TO USE TO ANSWER on the Google Form; if you
need MP4 files instead see Mr Rohol)
PICK ONE [probably don’t watch them in order…try to watch
them all before Tuesday]:
1.
HUMAN SCI/REASON/HOW WE PRIORITIZE AND DO DECISION-MAKING (quite interesting;
can stop video at min 24): Dan Gilbert:
Why we make bad decisions [ there
is a Dan Gilbert 2004 video too if you like this one]
2.
Algorithms/Race/Predictive Knowledge/Sociology: https://www.ted.com/talks/cathy_o_neil_the_era_of_blind_faith_in_big_data_must_end
3.
How we subjectively place value on things (he did the books: Decartes Baby; Just Babies; How Pleasure Works): Paul
Bloom: The origins of pleasure | Video on TED.com
3b = Then try (he’s funny): Rory
Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man | Video on TED.com and Rory
Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff | Video on TED.com
4.
BRAIN SCIENCE/BRAIN DEVELOPMENT/ETHICS/PSYCHOLOGY [COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE or if you liked the
baby brain lab]: Rebecca
Saxe: How we read each other's minds | Video on TED.com
(slightly
related: Alison
Gopnik: What do babies think? | Video on TED.com)
5.
BRAIN SCIENCE/Subjective Experience of unique sense perception moment (we
have shown this in class and people loved or hated it but certainly remembered
it; her book is pretty good too): Jill
Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight | Video on TED.com
6.
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS (if you liked the PBS Mind over Money video or the
Sway or Nudge or Predictably Irrational books)/IRRATIONALITY/ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY:
Laurie Santos: A
monkey economy as irrational as ours | Video on TED.com
5b = Then watch = Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
– which deals with another behavioral economics trap/self-delusion (PROMPT6)
7.
The power of all human mind’s in the capacity of MEMORY; the nature of
ACQUISTION OF KNOWLEDGE: http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do.html
8.
FOR FUTURE MED STUDENTS: BAYESIAN RATIONALITY VS. USING OTHER METHODS IN
THE PROCESS OF DIAGNOSIS: Abraham
Verghese: A doctor's touch | Video on TED.com
(if you like then try Quyen
Nguyen: Color-coded surgery | Video on TED.com if you wish)
(or consider https://www.ted.com/talks/atul_gawande_want_to_get_great_at_something_get_a_coach
)
9.
SENSE PERCEPTION/VISUAL TRICKS/TESTING CLAIMS: Beau
Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see | Video on TED.com . His 2019 video is good too
10. MUSIC/INTELLIGENCE
INVOLVED IN REAL-TIME COORDINATION/RAP/fMRI analysis of creativity: Charles
Limb: Your brain on improv | Video on TED.com 2010
10b
= Then try his Charles
Limb: Building the musical muscle | Video on TED.com 2011 (deals with
cochlear implants and how ex-deaf perceive music) (can watch Benjamin Zander: Benjamin
Zander: The transformative power of classical music | Video on TED.com too
or Jose
Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution | Video on TED.comor Julian Treasure TED videos)
11. ARTS/PHOTO/EMOTION/ETHICS:
David
Griffin on how photography connects us | Video on TED.com
(maybe for art/photo as
history/historian:) Jonathan
Klein: Photos that changed the world | Video on TED.com
(maybe too: https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_peschak_dive_into_an_ocean_photographer_s_world
)
12. Quirky/RACE & CULTURE
STUDIES/HISTORY/GLOBALIZATION/FOOD SUPPLY: Jennifer
8. Lee hunts for General Tso | Video on TED.com
13. Weak vs Strong forms of evidence/Bias/Rigging
your data/Testing claims in Natural Sciences: Ben
Goldacre: Battling bad science | Video on TED.com
13b(maybe then = Stuart
Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance | Talk Video | TED.com – good on
scientific process/approach; an
analysis of scientific method in the real world or how we organize the things
we don’t know
OR 13c : http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_dare_to_disagree.html
13d: Or Misinterp or reinterp/revisions of neuroscience - Molly
Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk | Video on TED.com
14. [for High-minded abstract philosophical
students PT1] Jim Holt:
Why does the universe exist? | Talk Video | TED.com - semi-comic but very
TOK
OR 14b: The history and nature of knowledge/
empiricism / testing knowledge claims (probably the most purely TOK thing on
this page): David
Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | Video on TED.com or an
overview of last 100 years of cognitive history James
Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | Video on TED.com
15. [for High-minded abstract
philosophical students PT2 – a bit too academic a college lecture style]
Consciousness and the nature of our humanity & BRAIN SCIENCE VISUALIZATIONS
TOO: http://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness.html (Daniel Dennett has some TED videos on the
issue of consciousness too)
15b ALSO consider https://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness?language=en
OR https://www.ted.com/talks/john_searle_our_shared_condition_consciousness
16. Wade Davis 2008 SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY/GLOBAL
STUDIES and divergant
perspectives/ART/ETHICS/RELIGION: Wade
Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual | Video on TED.com (or other speech BUT WE SHOULD WATCH THIS ONE
IN CLASS SO…: Wade
Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures | Video on TED.com2003)
16B Mark
Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t | Talk Video |
TED.com – for those who might write on indigenous knowledge/people
17. The PARADIGMS we live by
and its consequences/LOGOS vs MYTHOS cultures/ETHICS/RELIGION vs SCIENCE: Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West
-- the myths that mystify | Video on TED.com
18. Noreena Hertz: How to use experts -- and when not to |
Video on TED.com
19. Kelly
McGonigal: How to make stress your friend | Talk Video | TED.com – IN 2015,
Mrs Murray and Mrs Chance
were saying that watching this video might actually save your life
20. Sal Khan of the Khan
Academy – the future of how to teach: https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_not_test_scores
21. IF YOU NEED A HISTORIAN: https://www.ted.com/talks/doris_kearns_goodwin_on_learning_from_past_presidents
23. Morality and Driveless Cars: https://www.ted.com/talks/iyad_rahwan_what_moral_decisions_should_driverless_cars_make
24. The legacy of the Deep
Blue (IBM) chess win vs a grandmaster http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-man-vs-the-machine-fivethirtyeight-films-signals/
25.Why Dangrous Symbols Can’t Last
Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOEqzt36JEM
26.https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think
27.https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_rosling_ronnlund_see_how_the_rest_of_the_world_lives_organized_by_income
28.https://www.ted.com/talks/erica_stone_academic_research_is_publicly_funded_why_isn_t_it_publicly_available
29.https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_the_surprising_science_of_alpha_males
30.https://www.ted.com/talks/leila_takayama_what_s_it_like_to_be_a_robot
31.https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road
32.https://www.ted.com/talks/max_tegmark_how_to_get_empowered_not_overpowered_by_ai
33.https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting_better_or_worse_a_look_at_the_numbers
MISC – nice but not for the Journal
Why
curiosity is the key to science and medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYC-HKl4RPU&feature=youtu.be
Pavan
Sukhdev: Put a value on nature! – an interesting idea in the intersection
of quantifications, enviro science, economics, etc
Case
study in smartest Jeopardy contestant (besides a computer) = https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_jennings_watson_jeopardy_and_me_the_obsolete_know_it_all
Cell
animators: art and science overlaps: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_bolinsky_animates_a_cell
if
you are using ethics: https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_effective_altruism
what
are the value of performance artists? https://www.ted.com/talks/marina_abramovic_an_art_made_of_trust_vulnerability_and_connection?language=en
?
= https://www.ted.com/talks/marlene_zuk_what_we_learn_from_insects_kinky_sex_lives?language=en
naming
of concepts: https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary
OR https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_curzan_what_makes_a_word_real
IF
YOU NEED ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE EXAMPLES: https://www.ted.com/talks/carl_safina_what_are_animals_thinking_and_feeling
Mac
Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door | Talk Video | TED.com – I really
liked it, but I am an English major.
He’s entertaining/funny
Defense
of rationalism; semi-comic; OR John Lloyd inventories the invisible | Video on TED.com OR
Robin Ince:
Science versus wonder?
Damon
Horowitz: We need a "moral operating system" | Talk Video | TED.com
– intro to ethical systems and philosophy
Gender bias in drug dosing: https://www.ted.com/talks/alyson_mcgregor_why_medicine_often_has_dangerous_side_effects_for_women
https://www.ted.com/talks/casey_gerald_the_gospel_of_doubt
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18326395
= Matt Dawkins case study as transgender athlete
Watch Any TED video by Hans Rosling
Other video
suggestions to search for on TED site (if you want to do journal on one of
these SEE ME first): : TED | Talks |
Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics (video), Hans Rosling
(2010 or all of them), Hanna Rosin (future for girls),Noreena
Hertz (when experts are wrong), Michael Shermer 2010, Cameron Herold (how to be
an entrepreneur), Golan Levin, Jonathan Haidt (science study of liberals vs
conservatives), Dennis vanEngelsdorp (bees), Patricia
Burchat, Aguera y Arcas (Photosynth), Schwartz, Goleman, Dennett, Dawkins,
Mayne, Levitt, Koontz, Woldhek, Baraniuk,
Surowiecki,; Barber
(on foie gras) – all @ TED TALKS = http://www.ted.com/talks?gclid=CJuKzIio5o0CFQUoZAodf0m01A
OTHERS THAT ARE
MORE LIFE LESSONS but very worth watching before graduating:
·
Steve Jobs graduation speech at Stanford http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
)
·
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
[Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture 12million views]
·
https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_dinsmore_how_to_find_work_you_love?language=en