Shake up your story | Raghava KK

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http://www.ted.com Artist Raghava KK demos his new children’s book for iPad with a fun feature: when you shake it, the story — and your perspective — changes. In this charming short talk, he invites all of us to shake up our perspective a little bit.

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, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, 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. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive

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http://www.ted.com Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead “stuff.” How improbable is it that life arose? And — could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a “Lego kit” of inorganic molecules — no carbon — that can assemble, replicate and compete.

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, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, 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. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

Build a Gaming PC for Under $900 (September 2011)

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Thermaltake TR2 Power Supply: http://amzn.to/s8Fqhl

GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3 Motherboard: http://amzn.to/uTExwj

Sapphire Radeon 6870 Graphics Card: http://amzn.to/uILFgQ

G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM: http://amzn.to/s4CEfy

Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200RPM HDD: http://amzn.to/sFWIN8

OCZ Vertex Plus 60GB SSD: http://amzn.to/u28kEW

Samsung CD/DVD Burner: http://amzn.to/vfADFA

Cooler Master HAF 912 case: http://amzn.to/sYPT2p

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit System Builder’s Copy: http://amzn.to/sJCwgC

All prices are as of 9/8/2011. Expect these to change on a very frequent basis.

In this video I give a guide on building a gaming computer for under $900 as of September 2011. With this build you should be able to handle any PC game at 1080p without breaking a sweat.