Culture Buzz Derek Sivers gives an enlightening talk about preconceived notions. Weird or just different?
This is real people. This is totally real. [Ed. note: Or, if you're feeling really dangerous, try this.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/garden/09who.html?partn...
The creator of the TED conference and his novelist wife, who live in a grand 19th-century copy of an 18th-century French country house, happily shun Rhode Island society.
Celebrity Buzz A riveting TED talk from my boy David Blaine about how he went about setting the record for holding his breath. I know most people don't actually like David Blaine, and his drawly, too-cool-for-school delivery can make it tough even if you're not generally annoyed by him, but this is pretty fascinating stuff.