3 Powerful Presentations at TED

Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling?

This presentation shows a lot of power point skills, first starting off with visuals coming in and leaving the screen.  It flashes to the next page, and also has wording come up as the slide is still rolling.  This also has video playing in between slides.  It has clear visuals, and interesting messaging.  

http://www.ted.com/talks/carl_safina_what_are_animals_thinking_and_feeling#t-31619

Phillip Zimbardo: The psychology of time

This presentation talks about how things have changed and formed over time.  It starts by zooming in to an older era movie set, counting down the clock.  Then moves to some picture slides of old pictures of Adam and Eve.  There are very good slides of words popping up in various spots on the slide, one by one in order. Different colors, sizes and shapes are used. 

 http://www.ted.com/playlists/311/time_warp

Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?

Suzana is trying to describe how and why the human brain is so large and the same size for everyone, when our bodies are  all different sizes.  There are visual pictures of the human brain and then different animals pop up in the same slide.  This presentation uses good picture pop ups and fading to and from the slide.  There are proportionate sizes of different types of brains that are organized in the slide to go in order from left to right, on the same slide.  There are also still images along side with moving visuals.

http://www.ted.com/playlists/312/weird_facts_about_the_human_bo

3 News Articles Utilizing Data Tables or Charts

Stolen Bases Leaders: 2015 MLB Season

Of course I had to do an article about baseball, seeing as how my fiance played professionally and he has a few stolen bases in his day.  No, he is definitely not on this list, or any previous lists.  But, this is the 2015 record for the players with the most stolen bases.  A player can obtain a stolen base by running to the next base while the ball is still in play, trying to get there without being thrown or tagged out, resulting in an out.


http://www.sportingcharts.com/mlb/stats/player-stolen-bases-leaders/2015/

CHARTS: The (Literal) Shapes of Presidential Candidates' Donations

This article is all about which presidential candidates have the most donations, have one time high dollar donations, and who rely on the smaller yet significant donations that still greatly impact their campaign.  There are several different charts explaining how the candidates are doing financially and who is more or less the most supported.  Some charts include the millionaire-fueled candidates, the hangers on, the self-funders, and total+ super PAC donations.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/28/434708855/charts-2016-presidential-campaign-finance-fundraising

My family is from Sacramento, so I have snowboarded in the  Tahoe area for a long time, The last few years have been very depressing, with very little snowfall.  This is a chart of the snowfall of the Sierras over the last 125 years or so.  Some of the mountains include echo, mt Shasta, tamarack and Donner.  For the most part it has stayed pretty consistent in snowfall, but there have been some ups and downs.  

http://www.thestormking.com/Weather/Sierra_Snowfall/sierra_snowfall.html