1. The first link is a speech by Daphne Koller who shares her experiences of online education and the organization coursera.org where free higher education is given. You heard it right it is absolutely free and just a mail id is enough to register for any of these courses. In her speech Daphne Koller describes how hundreds of thousands of students are able to realize their dreams of getting a masters degree with a computer and internet. A remarkable endeavour indeed
2. The second link is an interesting one about Frank Warren who has a strange hobby of collecting people's secrets through post cards. In this speech he shares some of the secrets he has collected over the years. Some are funny while some are touching an interesting speech nevertheless
3. Can money buy happiness thats the topic Michael Norton explores in this link. He shares the knowledge of the experiments he conducted with people where some people are given money to spend on themselves and some on others. Giving always brings happiness thats the message he conveys
4. In life perspective is everything. In a given situation how we see things can make us happy or sad. Rory Sutherland gives some amazing examples on the psychological aspects of things great speech
5. Saved the best for the last. A remarkable story of how simple things can be used to make lives of the digitally underserved much better. Two remarkable gadgets "A lunchbox" and a "medi-meter" was created out of simple stuff which can educate people and save people's lives. Hats off to Vinay Venkatraman the person behind this
Hopefully will come back with few more remarkable videos from TED talks until then take care!!
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