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Clifford Stoll: The call to learn

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Uploaded on Mar 27, 2008

http://www.ted.com Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he's not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll's to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, I want to do something else."

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  • klauspeh

    HE DRIVES A DELOREAN...

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  • Alan VenueVideo

    It's such attitudes which drain the energy from minds like this and makes us dull. It's a shame society has an ideal of what is acceptable for a person to be like, this is why us full of energy despair at society at times and probably why we are not as advanced as we could be.

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  • mazafuzle

    his hair makes him look like he is insane xDD

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  • ong0512

    Some body brain just wired differently. They like to work with many things simultaneously, spend fractions of time on multiple tasks, similar to time sharing in a computer. Fascinating to see how such a brain functions.

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  • The Luk

    Why do so many TED talks take so long to get to the damn point! Also, why are their titles misleading as well. 

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  • buhnedej

    If this guy is an actor then shame on you Oscar winners..

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  • TheFoxfeather

    he is so cute :)

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  • Andrew Palfreyman

    Acid residue produces beautiful minds

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  • MultiMiro1984

    Skrillex must be a boss on Physics..

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  • Tsvetan Tsvetkov

    Why would you assume he is very smart and gifted when you skipped through it? YOU are passing your restless diffused energy on us making us anxious that you exist in the very same world we do.

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  • chiaroscural

    get off my planet

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  • h0norebel

    i didnt know this guy and thought he was just being ridiculous. but after i watched the video i realized this man is a genius. god bless him

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