FAVORITE TED TALKS

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs
Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
David Merrill demos Siftables
Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable
Eric Giler demos wireless electricity
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education
Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations
Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+
Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
Wade Davis on endangered cultures
Teaching kids real math with computers: Conrad Wolfram on TED.com
Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption
Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines
Brian Greene on string theory