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July 20th, 2010 
admin www.ted.com Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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AMAZING! Her story would make a great movie.
this is one of my favourite TED talks evr
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Well done. Great points made.
Utter crap.
Remarkable in so far only as it is false, and true only in so far as it is unremarkable.
WONDERFUL!! SO WISE!
Never heard of Elif, beautiful person.
Ill definitely find one of your books..
@t3tsuyaguy1 Re: options rarely encountered in others
I know, it’s annoying how everyone always wants to throw out the baby (amazing occurence) with the bathwater (superstitious explanation), or else want to drink the bathwater that is in know way part of the baby.
Still, my first post was to emphasize the degree to which even the simple stuff (controlling muscles) is far from simple, as any robot builder knows.
But this is off topic of this video, so I’ll pm you with more.
@dannyboyfour Don’t sugar coat it, Dannyboy4, tell us what you really think.
Anyway, I can see your point to a point. I am very annoyed when people write fiction about stuff they don’t know. Almost all fiction writers do this, so it’s true, unremarkable. On the other hand, I’m reminded of something Neil D. Tyson said about it being the first time he’d seen a black person asked an expertise question, not about race sports or entertainment. Stereotyping limits our conversations.
so impressive speech (l)
Incredible story telling…
OOOMMMG!
totally agree with her idea, I keep a journal of dreams , but from time to time they spin off into some other stories, cool stuff.
i hate this sort of speech…uhhh! the magical power of circles! rationality is not an option in our modern plural society… no matter how good you write fiction…
Wow, the crotch on those pants are tight!
2:25 is her fly open??
Boo to all the cynical comments. Wonderful speech. It’s nice to know there are human beings with souls still living on this planet.
@seraphinapandora Yes, it was. *raised eyebrow* I don’t think you ever UNDERSTOOD my original point, rankly.
fiction liberates us when knowledge and artifice imprisons us.
fuck she can talk
The longer she talked the hotter she got, I really appreciate her experiences and point of view. All people who can write should be free to be creative and write whatever they long for and dream of. We are not bound by our nationality, color or gender when we imagine, and imagination is the language of our dreams, the root of all stories.
incredibly beautiful and well spoken woman. Her speech was full of colourful quotes that were like plucking tasty plums off the branch- i wanted to savour them. Excellent upload.
@freethinker923 Someone gave an inspiring and well thought out speech layered with strong ideas, and all you could think of was the size of her pants? I honestly suggest that you replay this but close your eyes so you can digest the words instead of judge based on appearance.
hahahahahahah I usualy dont watch the comercial at the end, but man that was great ROFL
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@amxallxoestrogen yeah. I agree, this is, my only critique to her. Her speech sounded too much prepared, getting rid of “the feelings” and paying to much attention to her delivery than the content, which is a little bit contrary of what she was saying. But maybe this is the way she always had work on her talks.
Probably my comments come from the “rational world”. Being a scientist myself, we usually are pretty good improvising in academic environments (like a big chunk of the TED audience).
Woohoo I loved this talk.
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