The TedTalks conference series is invitation-only, but the videos are available online for anyone to watch or download. Browse the hundreds of talks by discipline (technology, entertainment, design, business, science, culture, arts, & global issues) or choose from some of the most interesting linked below.

>> Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
>> Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
>> Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
>> Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet
>> Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
>> Stewart Brand on squatter cities
>> Stefan Sagmeister on happy design
>> Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
>> Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
>> Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing
>> Al Gore on averting climate crisis
>> Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
>> Bob Thurman on Buddha & the internet
>> Seth Godin on sliced bread
>> Michael Shermer on believing strange things
>> Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
>> Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
>> Filmmaker/Artist Gregory Colbert on "Ashes and Snow"
>> James Watson on how he discovered DNA
>> Phil Borges on endangered cultures
>> Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes

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also in our collection:
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures
Islam and human rights : tradition and politics
Women shaping Islam : reading the Quran in Indonesia
Basic principles of the Islamic worldview
Islam in the world
Jihad in Islamic history : doctrines and practice
Islam and the abolition of slavery
Mecca and Main Street : Muslim life in America after 9/11
Islam obscured : the rhetoric of anthropological representation
The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism

on the web:
Muslims (PBS)
Religion & Ethics -- Islam (BBC News)
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other (Pew Global Attitudes Project)

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