Here is a good 20 min of your time well spent.

Amongst the ideas discussed are that

1. the modern idea of human equality generates envy

2. meritocracy generates judgment and

3. the sooner we realise we cannot have everything, the sooner we can define our own success, hopefully based on our, rather than our parents, ideals.

Here is a talk by one of the people involved in sequencing Neanderthal DNA.

Apart from an update on what we think about modern human populations, it is also an introduction on the sorts of analyses possible with modern genomics technology.

Such as the fact that we can reconstruct the genome of an extinct species from a part of a bone from the pinky.

[Video](http://www.ted.com/talks/svante_paeaebo_dna_clues_to_our_inner_neander thal.html)

Hollywood movies are nice, but here is something closer to the real people working in space.

Finally someone captures what has been annoying me about TED.

Placebo politics, marketing at the cost of complexity and ideology that prevents connection with the real world.

The fact it is given at TEDx makes it more memorable.

Link.

Youtube has longer videos of similar footage, but here is a relatively short one.

Here is a nice illustration of stereotypical cultural differences. I think they work for Greeks too.