If you've never watched a TED talk, I highly encourage it. In fact, most of these presentations are so good that I've listened to just the audio and have been enthralled for hours while driving, running or otherwise just relaxing.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader (TED.com).Speakers in the past have included Al Gore, Larry and Sergey from Google, Jane Goodall, Ray Kurzweil and probably anyone else you've ever read about, wanted to meet, or seen on TV talking about something provocative, stimulating or rule-/ground-breaking.
Science, social studies, technology or civics teachers can easily find great 20 minute or less (all TED talks are around 10-20 minutes) presentations about a plethora of topics from the worlds greatest thinkers. They can even embed most of them into their Moodle classrooms (just find the video you want and click "Share")!
Someone, and I'm really sorry I don't remember who, posted this as a link to their social bookmarking site and I think it's a great find. It's a published Google Doc of all of the TED talks available on Ted.com. Click the link to get the list: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYlXg&gid=0. The list includes links, the speaker and a description of the talk.
With all the great videos, who needs cable?
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