TED 2013 Recommended Reading List

[_honorentheos]

Thought this might be of interest to some.

TED Conference 2013 Recommended Reading (there are links as well as additional information at the hyperlinked page. The list is below:

Books on Politics, Money and Business:
•Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism’s Challenge to Democracy by Benjamin Barber
•Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
•The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Maria Mazzucato
•Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources, and What It Means for the World by Dambisa Moyo
•Tu y tu voto construyen la democracia by Juan Pardinas
•Competitive Advantage of Nations: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael Porter
•The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa’s Economic Revolution by Charles Robertson
•What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
•Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems by Didier Sornette


Books on Science, Nature and Technology:
•Welcome to Your Brain by Sandra Aamodt
•Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician’s Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks by Arthur Benjamin
•The Nature of Human Nature by Carin Bondar
•The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places by Bernie Krause
•The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal
•The Cloudspotter’s Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
•The Human Quest: Prospering Within Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockström
•The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah
•Digital Privacy: Theories, Technologies, and Practices by Alessandro Acquisti

Books on History, Society and Self:
•Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry by Stephen Burt
•Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen El Feki
•The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad by Lesley Hazleton
•The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home by Pico Iyer
•Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World by Holly Morris
•The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl
•Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness by Brother David Steindl-Rast

For Fiction Lovers:
•Aria by Nassim Assefi
•Sensorium by Abha Dawesar
•Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez

Articles and Opinions:
•“Libya: Two Years Later” by Mustafa Abushagur (with Jason Pack)
•“A City Made of Waste” by Teddy Cruz
•“Control of Distributed, Autonomous Systems” by Raffaello D’Andrea
•“The Science of Sleepy Teenagers” by Russell Foster
•“Restoring Credibility to Sovereign Credit Ratings” by Annette Heuser
•“How to Free North Korea” by Adrian Hong
•“My Open Source Cure for Brain Cancer” by Salvatore Iaconesi
•“Why China’s Political Model Is Superior” by Eric X. Li
•“The 21st Century Saloon: A Peek Inside China’s Wangba, or Internet Cafes” by An Xiao Mina
•“Iran’s March to Naked Dictatorship?” by Trita Parsi
•“Digital Revolution Lights Up Africa with Maps, Mobiles, Money and Markets” by Toby Shapshak
•“Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter

Research Papers:
•Uri Alon’s research on the mirror game
•Greg Asner’s research on global consequences of land use
•Siddharthan Chandran’s research on signaling in hedgehog spinal cords
•Grégoire Courtine’s research on brain-machine interface
•Suzana Herculano-Houzel’s research on white matter expansion in rodents and primates
•Mark Kendall’s research on Nanopatch vaccine delivery
•Lian Pin Koh’s research on the dawn of drone ecology
•Apollo Robbins’ research on misdirection in sleight of hand tricks
•Marla Spivak’s research on resin collection in honey bee colonies
•Molly Stevens’ research on human cardiovascular tissue calcification

[_cinepro]

•“The Science of Sleepy Teenagers” by Russell Foster

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... ingle.html



This article is interesting in light of early-morning seminary. I'm sure most Church members would argue that the spiritual benefits outweigh the physical and psychological cost.

[_honorentheos]

•“The Science of Sleepy Teenagers” by Russell Foster

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... ingle.html



This article is interesting in light of early-morning seminary. I'm sure most Church members would argue that the spiritual benefits outweigh the physical and psychological cost.

Thanks for highlighting that particular article, cinepro. Interesting.

[_MeDotOrg]

Thought this might be of interest to some.

TED Conference 2013 Recommended Reading (there are links as well as additional information at the hyperlinked page. The list is below:

Books on Politics, Money and Business:
•Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism’s Challenge to Democracy by Benjamin Barber

Thanks for the list. I was surprised to see Jihad vs. McWorld on the list. I remember reading this back in the 90's. While I didn't agree with all of the author's conclusions, I really liked the basic concept. Worth reading. In this case, you can tell a lot about a book from the cover:

[_honorentheos]

Thought this might be of interest to some.

TED Conference 2013 Recommended Reading (there are links as well as additional information at the hyperlinked page. The list is below:

Books on Politics, Money and Business:
•Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism’s Challenge to Democracy by Benjamin Barber

Thanks for the list. I was surprised to see Jihad vs. McWorld on the list. I remember reading this back in the 90's. While I didn't agree with all of the author's conclusions, I really liked the basic concept. Worth reading. In this case, you can tell a lot about a book from the cover:

Haha!

I was also surprised and am curious to see what talk aligned with it and how they brought it forward to the present. I have an hour long discussion on CD somewhere that is a recording of Barber on the book from sometime around 2001.

As an aside, his later book Consumed is a personal favorite for reasons similar to how you describe Jihad vs. McWorld with a similar caveat. He overreaches in some areas. But it's hard to differentiate between when he is on thin ice with an argument and just happened to touch a nerve that made the argument personal enough to be uncomfortable.