{"id":1766,"date":"2009-08-29T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2009-09-07T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T13:11:33","slug":"links-for-2009-08-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/interesting-web-sites\/links-for-2009-08-29","title":{"rendered":"Ted Talks &#8211; Magic, Math, Social Media inks for 2009-08-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp181.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 22px; margin-right: 22px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp181.jpg\" alt=\"Niagara Falls, Canada\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/eng\/arthur_benjamin_does_mathemagic.html\">Arthur Benjamin does &#8220;Mathemagic&#8221; | Video on TED.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. 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He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell you.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/ted\">ted<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/mathematics\">mathematics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/magic\">magic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/videos\">videos<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/eng\/lennart_green_does_close_up_card_magic.html\">Lennart Green does close-up card magic | Video on TED.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, &#8220;Pick a card, any card.&#8221; But what he does with those cards is pure magic &#8212; flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/ted\">ted<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/magic\">magic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/cards\">cards<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html\">Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration | Video on TED.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/collaboration\">collaboration<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/ted\">ted<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/socialmedia\">socialmedia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/management\">management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/shirky\">shirky<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/Groups\">Groups<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/flickr\">flickr<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html\">Clay Shirky: How social media can make history | Video on TED.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). 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