TED.com: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke of Insight

TED.com is a wonderful compendium of short talks on all subjects by the most innovative thinkers and doers available. The first one I listened to, and perhaps still my favorite, is Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist, describing her own stroke, which led to her great insight that we are all part of the energy flow in the world, and we can choose to be a part of everything (right brain) or to be a self-contained individual (left brain):



This and other wonderful talks are all freely available to the TED community and others, and joining the online community is free, although actually attending a TED conference is very expensive.

Scattergories

My oldest friend (in the sense that we met when we were 2 years old, not in the other sense) posted this in her blog, The Upper Storey.

Use the first letter of your name to come up with an item in each of the following categories. They have to be real places, names, and things. You can't make anything up. Try to use different answers is the person ahead of you has the same first initial. You can't use your own name for the boy/girl name question. Lois/Maggie (my friend) suggested everyone add one category.

Here goes:

What is your name?...............Nina
Four letter word.....................note
Vehicle.....................................Nissan
City..........................................New York
Boy name................................Neal
Girl name................................Natalie
Drink.......................................Nescafe
Occupation.............................novelist
Something to wear................necklace
Celebrity.................................Nick Nolte
Food........................................noodles
Something found in a bathroom........Nivea lotion
Reason for being late............no watch
Cartoon character.................Nancy
Something you shout...........No way!
Animal...................................nutria
Word to describe you..........nice
Disease..................................nephritis
Herb or spice........................nutmeg