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If you've ever been in need of any intelligent inspiration, thought provoking insight, or just a way to kill an entire afternoon then you absolutely must check out the TED Talks. This site holds a collection of videos from the conference that brings together some of the world's most brilliant minds in the fields of Technology, Entertainment, and Design, hence: T.E.D.

The TED conference has occurred annually since 1984 and just recently, with the core mission of "spreading ideas", has made the talks available to anyone online for free. Through the talks portal you can watch any of these enlightening videos.

One of the most famous TED talks is from former US Vice President Al Gore on the climate crisis, but my two favorites are Ray Kurzweil on "How Technology's Accelerating Power will Transform Us" (Kurzweil is one of the most brilliantly crazy people I've ever heard of, but fortunately uses his super-human intelligence for good), and the absolute must watch video is Malcolm Gladwell (of Tipping Point and Blink fame) speaking on "What we can learn from spaghetti sauce".

So if you want to learn some amazing things then head on over to the TED site, but only if you have a full afternoon to kill because the videos are addictive. And once you watch, make sure to support TED through spreading ideas... by telling your friends about this blog post.