Your iPod Can Make You Smarter

If you are a regular reader of Blather Blog (and you should be!) you may already know all about this. Just in case you were washing your hair that day or, like me, you were distracted by his preceding post about Post Secret, I'm here to sell it to you again.

During our time enclosed together in a London hotel, Don and I exchanged our Internet finds, as we are wont to do. (It is much like blogging but without the typing.) In between Margaret Cho and Ellen, he dragged me over to the TED site. TED is a conference held every year for 1000 of the world's leading thinkers, primarily in the fields of technology, entertainment and design, but the net is cast wide and it makes for some truly thrilling presentations.

Thankfully, you can access them and upload them to your iPod to share them with anyone else who doesn't mind staring at the tiny screen. They are ideal for public transport and parks and they go well with blue cheese, olives and a crisp, dry white.

I can't overstate how inspiring, intriguing, innovative and heart-wrenching some of these video-clips are. You owe it to yourself to check them out.

I'd recommend you start here:


Sir Ken Robinson's speech about the death of creativity in education is a marvel and Eve Ensler's discussion of the genesis of her work The Vagina Monologues is decidedly poignant.

Tags: video, design, technology