[TED]Why history is important. The roots of Israel, Amerca and Iran.

[walker 0]

Hi all

A TED talk on an object that traces the history of Iran, Israel and the US constitution. That is simultaneously an example of how imaginary friend arguments work and how old the concept of a press release is and proves scripture while pointing out the imaginary friend priests who wrote scripture were in breach of copyright. All in all possibly the most information packed TED talk you have seen.

http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_macgregor_2600_years_of_history_in_one_object.html

And as you can see tremendously important to the present day.

Kind regards walker

Edited February 21, 2012 by walker

[Tonci87 163]

That was indeed very informative, Thanks.

[nettrucker 142]

Thanks for posting that was interesting to watch.

[gammadust 12]

Indeed. Thank you once again for that walker. My brain fests on this type of stuff.

[rangerpl 13]

Thanks for that, walker. I love stuff like this. Very fascinating.

[celery 8]

Sorry but I fail to see the informativeness of that talk. It could have been condensed to a paragraph saying that several later leaders have been fans of its ideas and that it's been back to Iran lately.

[gammadust 12]

^^ a bit reductionist appreciation, imo. One could also condense Universe's History in one loud relatively long "Bang", and that would not even amount to an actual noun but an onomatopeia. Still, for ages, it is devilishly interesting to get into the details.