Level 8 TED talks for independent listening

There are so many great TED talks, but here are some excellent ones that seem particularly relevant to our students' interests:

• Dan Gilbert Explains How We Generate Our Own Happiness
• Jill Bolte Taylor – My Stroke Of Insight
• Anything by Hans Rosling (but "Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen", is used in class)
• James H Kunstler dissects suburbia
• Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rule
• Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex 
• Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
• Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
• Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture
• Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
• Benjamin Zander on music and passion
• JJ Abrams' mystery box
• Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
• Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction
• Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity
• Jonathan Harris collects stories
• Erin McKean redefines the dictionary
• Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit down
• Richard Dawkins on our “Queer” Universe
• Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code
• Anything by Daniel Dennett
• Jimmy Wales Explains the birth of Wikipedia
• Deb Roy: The birth of a word
• Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices
• Chimamanda Adichie on the danger of a single story
• Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world