http://www.ted.com Greg Lynn talks about the mathematical roots of architecture -- and how calculus and digital tools allow modern designers to move beyond the traditional building forms. A glorious church in Queens (and a titanium tea set) illustrate his theory. 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, 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. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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1. Ted has come a long way
2. awesome
3. The amount of shit I'm clueless about...
4. How realistic is this architectural principle?.
5. that mention of symmetry being a lack of information sounds bogus to me.
6. He has maths but he doesn't have taste.
7. yes, there is a higher probability of finding stupid people bothering about the shirt of a genius instead of understanding his ideas , because they are more numerous.Thats the mathematical explanation you were looking for.
8. - A beautiful mind
9. Enough with the "Organic". Really !! It is beginning to have an organic reaction in my gastronomical environment. x-(
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11. @nikanj nice catch from "a beautiful mind" movie, but in the movie russel crowe used it referring to a tie and there also be a mathematicl explanation for how bad his tie is.
12. By mentioning a final trait in the style of contemporary life whose rationalistic character clearly betrays the influence of money Simmel writes"by and large one may characterizethe intellectual functions that are used at present in coping with the world and in regulating both individual and social relations as calculative functions.Their cognitive ideal is to conceive of the world as a huge arithmetical problem,to conceive events and the qualitative distinction of things as a system of numbers
13. lol, greg LYN my nickname is Zer0XoL Zaroxolyn, haha..
14. lol, thank you i didnt know.
15. Hmm ... I think this is one of the reasons why podcasts exist.
16. this is a fantastic session. open the mind to this guy.
17. this guy sucks.
18. is he jason alexander who got a hair transplantation?
19. You know that smart people dont see the whole thing but detail parts(if you dont see the whole shirt but only the pattern it isnt very ugly) :P
20. horrible