The talk argues math is about:
Posing the right questions
Turning the questions into maths
Computation
Verification
Computation is what computers can do more efficiently than humans. The other steps cannot be done by computers. Yet math teaching is primarily about computation.
The talk argues math education should shift focus to the parts that humans are better than computers at. They are also more useful to the average human.
The speaker manages to combine Moses, Aristotle, alcohol and Tolkien in a single talk, which is also an economics talk. Even more impressively he makes the case for a place for morality in modern economics.
I am not sure how mainstream the ideas are, but it is easy to watch and provides food for thought. It is worth watching just for the use of a flip chart.
One of the comments below the talk reads Happiness is not a goal, it is a driving force.
This is quite a good summary of the talk. It is also demonstrated by the speaker's actions.
These animations are very impressive. They show how the molecular machinery in each cell is thought to work.
They are brilliant because of their detail: you will probably see something new, with repeated viewings. They are also amazing because they are scientifically accurate and put in motion processes you may have only been reading about. So they are particularly revealing to a biologist.
With the new batman movie coming out, this seems relevant.
For a short period of time