Glens Falls (NY) Online Book Discussion Group discussion

I've been enjoying listening online to the "TED" talks.
(TED="Technology, Entertainment, Design")
The talks cover a multitude of subjects by many different speakers. For links to the different subjects or themes, see:
http://www.ted.com/themes
http://www.ted.com/themes/atoz

At the "About" page of TED, it says:
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"TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading."
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"The annual TED conferences, in Long Beach/Palm Springs and Oxford, bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives."
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On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 700 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week.
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"Our mission: Spreading ideas."
"We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other. This site, launched April 2007, is an ever-evolving work in progress,"

FROM: http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/5
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I've learned a lot from the thought-provoking talks at TED.

PS-On the following web page, you can see the various themes listed clearly in text:
http://www.ted.com/themes/atoz

Below is a link to a TED talk by one of my favorite speakers, Steven Pinker:
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinke...
This is one of my favorite TED Talks.
At the web page above, it says:
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"In an exclusive preview of his book _The Stuff of Thought_, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize."

"Linguist Steven Pinker questions the very nature of our thoughts -- the way we use words, how we learn, and how we relate to others. In his best-selling books, he has brought sophisticated ..."
FROM: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinke...
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Here is the GR link to the book mentioned above by Pinker:
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

See his other books listed here: Steven Pinker
Another interesting book by Pinker is:
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The man giving this talk is so funny:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson...
He had me giggling.
(His name is Ken Robinson).