Man Fashions Knife out of Shit, Kills Dog, Uses Ribcage as Makeshift Sled

I didn't believe it when Roberta told me this story a few days ago at work.  She told me it was part of a sort of lecture about different cultures that was videotaped and uploaded onto some website.  Curious, I followed her directions to a website called ted.com.  I'm still not sure what the objective of the site is officially, but it seems to just be a collection of talks or informal lectures from experts in their respective fields for the sole purpose of sharing ideas.  After watching the video that Roberta was talking about, which was by a man from National Geographic who explores human culture (or the ethnosphere as he called it), I was hooked. 

I watched another talk from a neurologist who explored the functions of the brain by researching people with selective brain damage or conditions such as phantom limb.  He also researched people with synesthesia, which is where a person is able to smell a sound or a see a certain musical tone as a colour.  This condition, this intermingling of different areas of the brain is more prevalent in artists, he said, and could be the reason why we can understand metaphors and abstract thinking.  Fascinating stuff.

It doesn't seem like the talks have a overarching theme, either.  It kinda makes the whole thing seem like the Wikipedia of the YouTube world.  A sort of intellectual time waster.  I guess I'm just happy to find a video site that is entertaining, yet interesting enough to talk about the next day.