User:ZooGuard/Sandbox/TED

"Ideas worth spreading"? Sounds nice, but how they determine which ideas are worth spreading?

Speakers
People who had given TED talks and have articles at RationalWiki or are related to its mission:
 * Julian Assange (Why The World Needs Wikileaks, 2010)
 * Brian Cox (An Inside Tour of the World's Biggest Supercollider, 2008, and What went wrong in the Large Hadron Collider, 2009)
 * Richard Dawkins (An atheist's call to arms, 2002, and The universe is queerer than we can suppose, 2005)
 * Daniel Dennett ("Dan Dennett on dangerous memes", 2002, "Dan Dennett on our consciousness", 2003, "Dan Dennett's response to Rick Warren", 2006, and Cute, sexy, sweet, funny, 2009)
 * Freeman Dyson (Let's look for life in the outer solar system, 2003)
 * Al Gore (15 Ways to Avert a Climate Crisis, 2006, and New Thinking on the Climate Crisis, 2008. One of there reportedly made Michael Shermer to accept global warming.)
 * Sam Harris (Science can answer moral questions, 2010)
 * Raymond Kurzweil ("Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us", 2005)
 * Bjørn Lomborg (Our priorities for saving the world, 2007)
 * Elaine Morgan (Did we evolve from aquatic apes?, 2009 - an especially bad one)
 * James Randi (James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud, 2007)
 * Adam Savage (Adam Savage's Obsessions, 2008)
 * Michael Shermer (Strange Beliefs, 2006)

TEDx

 * Peter Joseph, TEDxPortugal 2010
 * Lynne McTaggart (was in What the Bleep Do We Know?), TEDxBrussels 2010
 * Stuart Hameroff (was in the same movie, same TEDx?)
 * TEDxCARDIFF: Google Consciousness - Maf Lewis, Rome Viharo (see the JREF Forum; Rome Viharo is this guy)