2009 February | Spoken Gems: Speeches, Lectures, Monologues

Amy Klobuchar: At The 65th Annual Congressional Dinner

Feb 272009Category: Comedy,Uncategorized
Speech Tags: Amy Klobuchar, Candy Crowley, Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Pelosi, Politics

At the 65th Annual Congressional Dinner of the Washington Press Foundation, Senator Amy Klobuchar delivered a hilarious roast. The speech starts at 33:10.

Other speeches in the video are given by Nancy Pelosi, Candy Crowley and Kevin McCarthy.

Found at CSpanJunkie. Please support him and his work. C-Span recently told him he has to shut down his site.

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Barry Schwartz: The real crisis? We stopped being wise

Feb 262009Category: Business & Economics,Politics
Speech Tags: Barry Schwartz, Economics, Politics, psychology

In this great TED talk, Barry Schwartz makes a plea for practical wisdom and against additional rules and ‘following procedure’.

This is a great speech but I especially liked his slides.

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Ken Robinson: What inspires Sir Ken

Feb 252009Category: Education
Speech Tags: Education, Ken Robinson

In this short clip, Ken Robinson talks about his inspiration.

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David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think

Feb 242009Category: Education
Speech Tags: David Merrill, Education, Technology

David Merrill, MIT grad student, had the opportunity at this year’s TED conference to present a new and intuitive way of interacting with computers: Siftables.

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Dan Barber: A surprising parable of foie gras

Feb 242009Category: Uncategorized
Speech Tags: Dan Barber, Food

Foie Gras is often rejected because of the cruelty the animal has to suffer through. Chef Dan Barber tells in this TED talk that there is a more humane way to produce it.

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