Tierney Thys

I've been commuting from Berkeley into San Francisco everyday, which, despite the decent and improving status of BART as a mass transit system, still takes over an hour to accomplish. I've been passing the time away watching videos from the TED conferences which have recently been put on the web.

I'm jealous of the people who get to go to these talks. The quality is very high and the curation of the attendees seems to be generally superior to anything else like it. Talks by Will Wright, Thomas Barnett and Jeff Hawkins are all noteworthy.

The winner for completely blow your mind that this could ever exist, though, is Tierney Thys' lecture on the Mola mola, a 10 foot long jellyfish eating variant of the sunfish. Really incredible stuff. Check it out.

As an extra bonus for anyone interested in visualization, Jonathan Harris' talk on We Feel Fine (regretably apparently broken now), and Universe is fascinating as well. Credit goes to RD over at The Quiet Quiet for first introducting me to these projects.