I just wanted to share this video in which the presenter speaks to the importance of play in youth continuing on into adulthood. The link to the original video location (with more information) is here. Be careful, it’s easy to lose a week at the TED site, but then again, that’s play for you.
Thanks for pointing me to an interesting website that I’d never heard of. A terrific video.
As George Bernard Shaw and O.R. said “we don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
Spike! Such a long time since the trivia forum. It’s silly to point out individual talks as being special.. each to our own devices. Still, there are two older talks that simply stunned me when I saw them:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Oh yes, and play. I hope you’re getting your steering wheel out of storage and getting ready to take on the Nordschleife mit uns. From here on in, it’s all about loosening the mind.
A million thankyous for your links. I’m in love with Hans Rosling. He blends my two favorite areas (statistics & computers) into a presentation of stellar proportions using humor, a commonman vocabulary & his marvelous gapminder software. I stopped just short of watching him swallow the sword. 🙂
Especially neat were the pans around homes on Dollar Street. Reminded me of two books by Peter Menzel: a) Material World and b) Hungry Planet. In each, he photographs families around the world – a) every item they own displayed outside their home or b) everything the family eats in a week. Fascinating, as you can imagine, to compare “first” world consumption vs. the have-littles.
I just watched the talk on poverty by Rosling. The graphs were fascinating and quite enlightening. I will check out some more by him. Thanks for the links.
Hi to you too, Helmut. I also miss the forum where we could spout, vent, ask, comment on, any old thing that came to mind. Lively, intelligent, helpful, and often just plain wonderfully goofy. We will have a forum again, thanks to Steerpike and MrLipid. Then we can get back to…normal, if such can be said of us.
But the cool thing that has come from the FFC changes is an influx of new minds with new points of view. Thank goodness for that.
Oh, and Helmut, we gotta get your avatar up here. I miss that mustache.
FINALLY A REASON TO PLAY SO MUCH QUAKE WARS.