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  A comment on Talk: Rives: The 4 a.m. mystery

  Nov 24 2012: Am I the only one who instantly thought of:
  "I get in from work at 2 am and sit down with a beer..."

• A comment on Talk: Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair

  Nov 23 2012: Awesome! There are so many reasons I love this presentation! I really admire and respect people who make use of their better circumstances, education, knowledge, and opportunities to help the less fortunate. I have come across some very impressive ideas here on TED (where else? :) ), where people changed the lives of hundreds of others with "simple" ideas. Prof. Ramachandran's phantom pain treatment, anyone? It's also great to see that this guy's idea isn't just an idea, but has actually become realized and reached the people who need it the most.
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  A comment on Talk: Faith Jegede: What I’ve learned from my autistic brothers

  Nov 7 2012: Wow, amazing talk. She's a great speaker - I found myself lost in her story as I was listening to her. She's got the power to get what she means across. Also, beautiful message, something that's increasingly important to keep in mind amidst all these attempts at brainwashing we experience daily.

• A comment on Talk: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness

  Nov 7 2012: I like the chart at the end! I think that's a good way to look not only at flow, but also at the other categories, worry and anxiety in particular.

• A reply on Talk: Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test

  Sep 18 2012: I think I can see where Michael is coming from. The impression I got when reading Mohammed's post was that he's probably not happy with his current job. In my experience, if you are in a position that's right for you, you do feel clever enough, motivated enough, and interested enough to not have to pretend that you actually are. This doesn't mean that you are better than anybody, it only means you have found something you like doing, you are at a place where the best of your abilities can shine.
  
  I think if you have to pretend anything, it's a reliable sign that you are on the wrong track...
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  A comment on Talk: Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal

  Sep 17 2012: I really admire the guy for researching this subject. I'm not sure how we could fight supermarkets offering double the amount of food that we actually need, but keeping an eye on what we buy and eat at home is definitely a good start. Reasoning and convincing statistics won't make any difference until there's a loss of profit to open their eyes. We need to make them understand they are offering excess and the only way to do that is not buy not buying their wares.
  
  Another side effect of this huge waste is the staggering amount of plastic waste that comes with it. Bottles, packets, plastic bags - every drop of "beverage" (I don't consider coca cola suitable for human consumption, hence the quotation marks), every bite of food is packaged individually for some crazy reason, and this generates way more garbage than we can handle.
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  A comment on Talk: Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree

  Aug 12 2012: "I think we need to be teaching these skills to kids and adults at every stage of their development, if we want to have thinking organizations and a thinking society."
  
  True, but everything points to the opposite - governments and leaders of countries don't seem to want a thinking society. All they want is a brainwashed mob who will slave their entire lives away only to buy anything and everything and keep the economy growing... :- I know this sounds pessimistic, but it's hard not to see their efforts to cripple thinking rather than encourage it.
  
  All the more reason we need thinkers and speakers like Ms Heffernan, and orginazations like TED to spread the light. Great talk, thanks for sharing!
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  A reply on Talk: VS Ramachandran: 3 clues to understanding your brain

  Jul 22 2012: This matter is easy enough to clear up: just ask a kid who hasn't been taught to write yet.

• A reply on Talk: Neil Harbisson: I listen to color

  Jul 22 2012: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html
  17:45 might be relevant to your question. I highly recommend to watch the entire video though - one of the most fascinating TED talks ever :)
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  A reply on Talk: Neil Harbisson: I listen to color

  Jul 22 2012: I think it's not that impossible to experience what he does, if you think about it. All you need, I think, is some time with this device on, and you'd get used to receiving a piece of familiar information in a new way.
  
  Once he's able to interpret the 'colour' information, I don't think his perception is any more different from ours than that of two non-colourblind persons.
  
  We are back to the same old dilemma: if I say red, you know what colour I mean, but do you see exactly what I see? We'll never know - all we can be certain of is that we always call the same colour red, but we can't determine if it really is the same experience for our retinas. You might call what I perceive as green red, but since we always call it the same we'll never know if there's a mismatch or not.
  
  To think how sophisticated his hearing must be!