If you don’t know already, TED is a conference of about 1,000 people, with some of the best minds of today sharing their thoughts on their work, the world and their views in general. This material is now fully available from the website, under a creative commons license. You can view videos, comment on them and so on.

For me this is a great find, since I have a very broad spectrum of interest. Even if you hated biology in school, the talks on it will still pull you in, since people are talking about cutting edge science, often in a way that is very consumption-friendly from a layman’s point of view.

I am thinking about opening a new blog reviewing TED talks every week. I just recently finished a talk by Ron Eglash who is an ethno-mathematician, studying mathematics and culture. You might think “boring”, but it’s really not. The talk was about fractal patterns occurring in African design, and these people don’t know what a fractal is, at least not in a mathematical sense.

If you want to hear very smart people talking about cutting edge stuff, take a look!