Since 1984, the
TED Foundation has been holding conferences, choosing the most interesting topics and the most innovative ideas for them. For example, at the first conference in 1984, the newly released Macintosh, an innovative CD from Sony, the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot demonstrated the practical application of his theory of fractals, and the artificial intelligence expert Marvin Minsky explained the new mind model.
Each talk (lecture) at the TED conference is called TED Talk and is published online; now there are already more than 400 videos on the site. Since all of them are devoted to unimaginably interesting topics, it is even difficult to guess which ones are of the greatest interest among viewers. The official blog TED Blog has
published a list of the top 20 lectures over all times in the number of views, collecting statistics from TED.com, Youtube, iTunes, Hulu, embedded frames, number of downloads, etc.
1. Sir
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (2006): 13,409,417 views
2. Neuroanatomical Specialist
Jill Boyth Taylor studied her own brain after a stroke (2008): 10,409,851 views
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3.
Pranav Mistry on the
exciting potential of SixthSense (2009):
9,223,263 views
4. The pioneer of underwater shooting,
David Gallo shows amazing footage of underwater creatures (2007): 7,879,541 views
5.
Patty Maes and Pranav Mistry
show SixthSense (2009):
7,467,580 views
6.
Tony Robbins reasons
why we do what we do (2006): 6,879,488 views
7.
Simon Sinek explains the mechanisms,
how great leaders inspire action (2010): 6,050,294 views
8.
Steve Jobs on
how to live before dying (2005): 5,444,022 views
9.
Hans Rosling shows the
best statistics you have ever seen (2006): 4,966,643 views
10. Researcher
Brene Brown about the
main human vulnerability (2010): 4,763,038 views
11.
Daniel Pink on the
amazing science of motivation and how material incentives can harm productivity (2009): 4,706,241 views
12. Mathematician
Arthur Benjamin makes a
math mage (2005):
4,658,425 views
13.
Elizabeth Gilbert on the
interaction with the demon of genius, which exists separately from the person (2009): 4,538,037 views
14.
Dan Gilbert about
why a person is always equally happy (self-synthesis of happiness) (2004): 4,269,082 views
15.
Stephen Hawking asks
big questions about the Universe (2008): 4,153,105 views
16.
Jeff Khan demonstrates multitouch (2006): 3,891,251 views
17.
Johnny Lee shows
hacks Wii Remote for teachers (2008): 3,869,417 views
18.
Kate Berry talks about
brain magic as software bugs (2004): 3,847,893 views
19.
Mary Roach talks
about the famous nervous system reflex (2009): 3,810,630 views
20.
Vijay Kuman shows
robots that fly like birds (2012): 3,535,340 views
For almost all lectures there is a Russian transcription.