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June Cohen
New York, NY
United States

Executive Producer, TED Media, TED

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What's the best hidden gem in the TED archive?

Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Jill Bolte Taylor, Patties Maes, David Gallo, Elizabeth Gilbert ... They're crowd pleasers and perennial favorites (and I love them, every one!). But there are so many hidden gems in the TED archive that deserve to be seen and shared. Let's unearth them!

What's the little-known sleeper hit that captured your heart?

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Lauren Lazarus
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Feb 17 2011: I think the video that helped me find out about TED was this one by Erin McKean, talking about the English language and how both the language and the dictionaries that reference it are changing with the digital age:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html

Another big one for me was the one by Benjamin Zander. He brings humor into a discussion of whether classical music is dying-- how classical music, in the right context, can be brought to anybody. As a bit of a musician myself, it hit home, because he brought a different perspective to the classical music that I was already fond of... and as a human being, I think it affected me as well.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html

There are a few others, but these are the two major gems that I have found.
- Ignacio Ruz Caracuel
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  Feb 19 2011: I really admire Zander. This is another video, unfortunately the sound isn´t very good.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGWzmst0R7E

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