“TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program”, www.TED.com

Some of the talks on ethics, happiness, and design thinking has really made me think twice about how I come to form an opinion or take a stand on a certain subject.  Amazing video series with great guest speakers such as Tim Brown (IDEO), Stefan Sagmeister, and Dan Gilbert who demonstrates just how poor we humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy.  My favorite is from Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives.

www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html