{"id":653848,"date":"2013-04-22T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74995"},"modified":"2013-04-22T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:39:35","slug":"from-the-archive-deepak-chopras-2002-talk-at-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653848","title":{"rendered":"From the archive: Deepak Chopra&rsquo;s 2002 talk at TED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a public exchange of letters (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/deepak-chopra\/dear-ted-is-it-bad-scienc_b_3104049.html\">his<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/chris-anderson\/ted-censorship-consciousn_b_3115145.html?utm_hp_ref=science\">ours<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/deepak-chopra\/reply-to-chris-anderson-t_b_3119890.html\">his<\/a>) regarding TED&#8217;s views on the line between good and bad science, Deepak Chopra has asked us to post a talk he gave at TED in 2002 (four years before TED began free online distribution of some of its talks). Here it is:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/64581961\" width=\"476\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We never posted Chopra&#8217;s talk before because, frankly, it seemed unfocused, and it used the language of quantum physics in a way we thought was misleading. We admired Deepak&#8217;s desire for a more spiritual, connected world. But in our curatorial opinion, this particular talk wasn&#8217;t right for the homepage of TED.com.<\/p>\n<p>We add just one talk each weekday on our homepage, chosen from thousands of candidate talks in our archives, and strive for a broad variety of topics and styles designed to inform, entertain and inspire. We listen to, and learn from, the views of our global community, and we accept that people won&#8217;t always agree with our choices!<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74995\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74995\/\" \/><\/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=74995&#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\/6XEgf-qoMog\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a public exchange of letters (his, ours, his) regarding TED&#8217;s views on the line between good and bad science, Deepak Chopra has asked us to post a talk he gave at TED in 2002 (four years before TED began free online distribution of some of its talks). Here it is: We never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}