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Steven Johnson: A guided tour of the Ghost Map

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Uploaded by on May 18, 2007

http://www.ted.com Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities and modern society.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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  • good talk but that ted music is too loud!

  • excellent and insightful

    love the talks

    like the intro music (bit to loud though)

    hate the final advert

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  • he keeps his head panning the crowd every once in a while in a queer way.

    he could have compressed this talk

  • sniff"..sniff...I smell something!,But wait! it's not ..learning..it's,..something strange,.

    something READINDING!, hasen't taught us!- " Do these jeans make ME! look fat?

  • oh my god this book takes forever to read, i didnt even finish it. this helped and another video. my teacher sucks. this book could have been like 100 pages but instead like 300. annnnoying!

  • The book was too drawn out for me to understand fully. This helped a lot.

  • book is drawn out...just like this speal... the views jumped because RIT students watched this stupid video :)

  • Astounding.

    Love the talks.

    skipped past the intro.

    cholera sucks.

  • Wow he could have condensed that talk into 3 minutes easily.

  • Fascinating.

    Love the talks.

    Hate the intro sound.

    5 stars.

    ben

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