The biggest event you've never heard of

TED: Ideas worth spreading

The TED conference slides under the mainstream radar every year.  I honestly can't understand why, because it brings together some of the more brilliant people alive today and gives them a chance to say something interesting in a short presentation. 

Note of caution: you can easily get drawn into watching one video after another and find yourself half way through next week, unable to decide whether to spend your life pursuing statistics, development work, fine art, or engineering.

I wrote a short piece about the conference last year for NPR's Intern Edition.