Thanks to the proliferation of Internet video there are now more talks, lectures, and lessons from predominate scientists and educators than you could possibly hope to watch. With so many to choose from and so little time to watch them all we hope to provide you with the best talks and lectures we can find. Here you will find the talks we find the most fascinating, illuminating, educational, and most of all entertaining. Good lectures grab your attention and hold it while providing you with valuable information, these are the kinds of talks we hope to provide on all manners of subjects. So sit back and enjoy a mind expanding talk from an expert in their field.

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http://www.ted.com With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Prof. Hans Rosling uses software from Gapminder debunks a few myths about the "developing" world. This global health visionary has discovered a powerful new way to communicate complex data about the world; his remarkable interactive graphs help deliver profound insights about global trends and will change forever the way you think about "us" and "them." Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.) More TEDTalks at www.TED.com



This truly is an excellent talk from Hans Rosling that will forever change the way you view the world economic situation, these twenty minutes will show you visually how rapidly the world has changed in the last forty years and it will amaze you. After you've finished there are a great many other good lectures from the TED talks, you can either take a look at them, or check back here every week I will most certainly be posting the best here, saving you the effort of watching them all.

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