{"id":651483,"date":"2013-04-09T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74527"},"modified":"2013-04-09T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:21:26","slug":"from-tedglobal-speakers-11-websites-and-links-you-didnt-know-you-needed-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651483","title":{"rendered":"From TEDGlobal speakers: 11 websites and links you didn&rsquo;t know you needed in your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blindjuggler.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/blindjuggler_org.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"blindjuggler_org\"   class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve spent the past year researching the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/04\/02\/introducing-the-tedglobal-2013-speaker-lineup\/\">lineup for TEDGlobal 2013<\/a> &#8212; and bookmarking some amazing websites and pages along the way. Here are 11 you really didn&#8217;t know you needed. But you do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu\/\">BioNumbers<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAn addictive database of useful biological numbers. Just go and start looking around, and try to stop &#8212; you can start off with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu\/search.aspx?task=searchbypop\" >most popular numbers<\/a>, or perhaps the most\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu\/search.aspx?task=searchbyamaz\" >amazing<\/a>. Sample:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average duration of a single eye blink,\u00a0Human Homo sapiens:\u00a00.1-0.4 sec<\/li>\n<li>Characteristic heart rate,\u00a0Pond mussel:\u00a04-6\u00a0beats per minute<\/li>\n<li>Number of skin cells,\u00a0Human Homo sapiens:\u00a01.1e+11 cells [1.1e+11 is scientific notation for 1.1*10^11, or one hundred and ten billion]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1615\" >Uri Alon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cups.cs.cmu.edu\/soups\/2011\/proceedings\/a10_Wang.pdf\">&#8216;I regretted the minute I pressed share&#8217;:\u00a0A Qualitative Study of Regrets on Facebook&#8221; (PDF)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nEver regret posting something dumb on Facebook? In one of the most entertaining academic papers ever written,\u00a0a team of researchers at\u00a0Alessandro Acquisti&#8217;s lab\u00a0share clinical interviews about social-media shame. From authors: Yang Wang,\u00a0Saranga\u00a0Komanduri, Pedro G. Leon, Gregory\u00a0Norcie, Alessandro Acquisti, and Lorrie Faith Cranor.<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1559\" >Alessandro Acquisti<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blindjuggler.org\/videos\/\">Blind Juggler<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nNot quite what it sounds like, this is a collection of videos of robots that can juggle a small plastic ball &#8212; without any cameras or sensors to tell them where the ball is. The robots run from simple to baroque. Who knew pure physics was so hypnotizing to watch &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1594\" >Raffaelo D&#8217;Andrea<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk\/publications\/101475\">&#8220;Short-Wavelength Light Sensitivity of Circadian, Pupillary, and Visual\u00a0Awareness in Humans Lacking an Outer Retina&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nGet ready to have your mind slightly blown:\u00a0You have a body part you didn&#8217;t know about.\u00a0Inside your eye, where you have rods and cones to process vision, there&#8217;s a third kind of receptor that tells light from dark, and helps adjust your sleep cycle. And in two legally blind patients with nonfunctioning rods and cones, Dr. Russell Foster and his team show in this paper, that third kind of receptor still works.<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1623\" >Russell Foster<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnyxscotland.co.uk\/about\/about_the_carnyx\">Carnyx Scotland<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nWhat is a carnyx? A 2,000-year-old Scottish musical instrument, made of bronze, as tall as a man, with a bell shaped like the head of a boar. It was played between, let&#8217;s say,\u00a0300 BC and AD 200.\u00a0Do you want to know more? Why, yes you do.<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1619\" >John Kenny<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>6. <a href=\"http:\/\/cloudappreciationsociety.org\/\">The Cloud Appreciation Society<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCloud videos, cloud news, and the cloud of the month. Cloudspotters of the world, unite and look up.<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1577\" >Gavin Pretor-Pinney<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2013\/01\/video-the-art-of-pickpocketing.html\">&#8220;The Art of Pickpocketing&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThis is just a single video but you&#8217;ll have to watch it twice &#8212; see &#8220;gentleman thief&#8221; Apollo Robbins steal the watch right off a New Yorker writer&#8217;s wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1616\" >Apollo Robbins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLprl6grN2nB2DhNqJccISirm7KdZQ30o1\">Wild Sex<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCurious about how birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it? Two seasons of frank, hilarious video lessons about animal sex, hosted by Dr. Carin Bondar. (Electric eels, I might add, do it,\u00a0though it shocks &#8216;em. I know.)<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1606\" >Carin Bondar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>9. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildsanctuary.com\/\">Wild Sanctuary<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThis is one of those browser tabs you can keep open all day long &#8212; a constant soundtrack of field-recorded wild animal noises. You&#8217;ll hear birdsong, whales, and mysterious jungle beeping of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1568\" >Bernie Krause<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.88-bar.com\/\">88 Bar<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCatch up on Chinese memes and culture in this fascinating group blog, curated with the help of An Xiao Mina.<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1564\" >An Xiao Mina<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>11. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuredivas.com\/pilgrimage\/global-gigs\/\">Global Gigs<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDreaming of a job far far away from wherever you are right now? This site (somewhat tricky to navigate but worth it) offers detailed first-person reports on the kinds of jobs you can get as a traveling expat.<\/p>\n<p>Found thanks to speaker:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php#1580\" >Holly Morris<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74527\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74527\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=74527&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/_2rDc5AGD7Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve spent the past year researching the lineup for TEDGlobal 2013 &#8212; and bookmarking some amazing websites and pages along the way. Here are 11 you really didn&#8217;t know you needed. But you do. 1.\u00a0BioNumbers An addictive database of useful biological numbers. 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