The annual TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference costs $6k to attend. But you don't have the pay to see some of the remarkable presentations at the gathering tagged "ideas worth spreading". They are posted online. You might start with Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's remarkable account of her stroke. While I would not fully embrace her interpretation of the event, there's nothing like coming completely unraveled to make you rethink who you are and why you are here.Stephen Goforth
