Beatnic - just wondering » mind http://www.beatnic.co.uk Questions and observations from Nic Price. Curious about how things work and what it's like to use them. Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:40:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Stopped smoking? Have a “TED break” http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/06/27/stopped-smoking-have-a-ted-break/ http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/06/27/stopped-smoking-have-a-ted-break/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:22:04 +0000 Nic Price http://www.beatnic.co.uk/?p=681 Continue reading →]]> If you’ve quit smoking and you’re wondering what to do with your extra 30 minutes at work every day, why not spend 18 of them watching one of the many great talks on TED (technology, entertainment, design).

This week TED clocked up 50 million viewings.

Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk (below) is the most watched.

I found it fairly mind-blowing, if you’ll pardon the pun.

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