Five Eclectic Videos

Trying to stem the tide with a quick post. Here’s some videos from my info stream to enjoy while I catch up.

The Spread of TED

PostRank applies their real-time engagement monitoring engine to reveal which TED talks are being discussed.

TED-ucation

One perk from planning TEDx Bloomington was a live stream from Day Two of the TED 2011 conference in California. Among the two sessions I watched, Salman Khan shined brightest.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

A video of a toddler playing Wii tennis makes me ponder both what future skill sets are going to emerge in 20 years with kids growing up on the Wii … and how meaningless my own Wii success is by comparison.

Microwind generators blow my mind

In honor of the Bioneers conference—which is being broadcast as a satellite conference in Bloomington this weekend—here’s a very interesting use of the aeroelastic flutter effect. The Windbelt generator was inspired by the infamous collapse of the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, a standard cautionary tale for physicists and structural engineers.

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