TED who? Helen Fisher who?
Do you know about TED? From Wikipedia: TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate “ideas worth spreading”. I don’t know very much about TED, except that once in awhile I zip over to the site to look around. I regularly run across links to videos of talks given at TED events and watch if I have 20 minutes to spare (TED talks are generally restricted to 20 minutes). I thought about going to a TED event until I found out the cost (around $6,000 each). Thank goodness for the Internet and videos.
Anyway, I stumbled on this video of Helen Fisher talking at TED about “Why we love and cheat.” Helen Fisher is the Rutgers anthropologist that Match.com asked to develop the science behind Chemistry.com. I heard her talk at at matchmaking convention a few years ago. She is fascinating.
If you enter “Helen Fisher” in the search box on the TED site, there are quite a few entries. I plan to do some watching over the next few days, and you might want to consider doing so as well. If you want to know the “why and how” behind romantic love, she is on the cutting edge.
