John Lloyd inventories the invisible

http://www.ted.com Nature's mysteries meet tack-sharp wit in this hilarious, 10-minute mix of quips and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John Lloyd plucks at the substance of several things not seen.

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[Sondre7]

I truly enjoyed this talk

[ilovepotatos]

These women laugh at anything.

[thedesertrose99]

Fucking sociopaths making fun of what little sense is left in the world. TED must keep some standards.

[taigory]

it's just curious... we often think of ourselves as one of the most complex organisms on earth, but what extra complexity on what scale is contained in the extra chromosomes in those potatoes?

[Cube3Productions]

whats so funny about potatoes having 2 more chromosomes than humans? these people are just laughing at anything

[karlypilkoids]

47 people are the others.

[contemporarybeatnik]

@jursamaj - i don't think one can "make the mysterious un-mysterious without any good basis." mystery is just another word for ignorance, though we can appreciate the mystery we should not venerate it. making up an explanation for the universe (God did it) is not an acceptable answer that should not be taken on faith.

[Dreambearer23]

Amazing!!!

[jursamaj]

@contemporarybeatnik

Yep. The flaw comes in where people try to make the mysterious un-mysterious without any good basis.

[contemporarybeatnik]

@jursamaj

that's because our brains are complex pattern recognition machines... and a bunch of ignorant people cooked up an explanation for the origin of the universe. that doesn't mean belief in god is common nature. the desire for an explanation is. god is just a bad explanation.

[contemporarybeatnik]

@Marakinyo

man invented god (all of them).

[Marakinyo]

@contemporarybeatnik

Disagree.