RSAnimate talks

Most followers of this blog know that I’m a fan of TED talks.  I’m also a fan of RSA organisation talks, in particular the fantastic animated talks, whereby animated videos are played simultaneously in parallel with a talk/speech on a given topic.

The animated videos, generally 10-11 minutes long, consist of speeded up video of whiteboard sketches / caricatures based on the content of the respective talk, made to appear as if drawn in real-time as the speech is given.

Further in this post I’ve embedded video links to several more RSA Animate talks.

[Updated post January 2013]
The animated talks embedded below are:

• The Power of Outrospection (Roman Krznaric, December 2012)
• The Truth About Dishonesty (Dan Ariely, September 2012)
• The Internet in Society: Empowering and Censoring Citizen? (Evgeny Morozov)
• Language as a Window into Human Nature (Steven Pinker)
• Changing Education Paradigms (Sir Ken Robinson)
• 21st century enlightenment (Matthew Taylor)
• First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Slavoj Zizek)
• Crisis of Capitalism (David Harvey)
• The Secret Powers of Time (Professor Philip Zimbardo)
• Empathic Civilisation (Jeremy Rifkin)
• Drive (Daniel Pink)
• Smile or Die (Barbara Ehrenreich)
• Left Brain, Right Brain (Matthew Taylor)
• Superfreakonomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner)
• The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown (Stein Ringen, September 2009)
• The Divided Brain (Iain McGilchrist, October 2011)

More from RSA on their YouTube channel, Twitter (@theRSAorg), and their website (http://www.thersa.org/).

What’s your favorite?

[Original post June 3, 2011; Updated January 10, 2013]