A dance to honor Mother Earth | Jon Boogz and Lil Buck 

Diamond Seraphin Seriously, right. It's not like it was a Britney Spears concert that TED was giving a platform. This dance and poem had meaning and content.

umm it wasent either of those three things and yes i get there's the entertainment part but thats not talking about performances its talking about people talking about entertainment

maxybaer123 How can you be certain that the Entertainment is only meant to be talked about as opposed to experiencing something entertaining? I'd like to think that the presentations TED puts forth incorporates one, two, or all three of its components. Besides the TED channel can include more than just TED Talks, like this video here.

i think a Britney Spears concert has more meaning in it than this.(and im not even joking) please don't confuse intensity in the delivery with actual meaning...its really annoying and makes artist be incredibly shallow while pretending to be deep which is an extremely annoying trend.

It's on the wrong channel. This is supposed to be in some art channel that no one watches or cares about.

This is a sceince and education channel, not an art channel. That's why the thumbs are so low.

filonin2 TED is a channel about learning and exploring. If you think science is the only thing that provides meaningful information then you have a very limited and shallow understanding of not just science but the world.

For the same reason people would be mad if a professor would hold a lecture on church on a sunday morning where everyone expected a mass to be held. Because it's the wrong place for it.

yaz and a camera air? water? Though I'm sure someone will find something to rage about them.

Jamal Hassan My thought is exactly the same. Most of them don't really understand science. But the good thing is that they are trying to by at least watching this channels content. Hopefully they grow to appreciate this kind of science.

ummm Seth Perry if you think this is in any way scientific you dont know what science is and im sorry

without TED I never would have discovered Reggie Watts. he is so awesome :D

TED's a salve for the consciences of the rich, anyway, so it doesn't really matter what they put on their channel. Some will find it interesting, others won't. It all depends on taste.

The comments section doesn't bear that out.

Why does TED even *have* a dance video at all? That's why we're mad.

filonin2 TED doesn't owe you anything. If you don't like its content then leave. You don't define what TED is or what it should upload, they do.

You seem to misunderstand the dynamic here. There's a rating system, we do define whether what they upload makes them $$$ or not. I didn't watch, just thumbed it down. This made them no money.

Technology, Entertainment, and Design: these are the words that define TED. Oh, and talk. This is not a talk about technology, entertainment, or design.

filonin2 That's very interesting. Not only did you thumb down something without first watching it, that way you can give an honest opinion. But you also think a few people get to decide what a channel does with its property. RU-vidr's don't make much money from views. They do this because they want, so they don't care about an uneducated opinion.

beliefless dogmasless it doesn't need to, if all the humans die, it won't, but if the planet dies, we all die, it might be considered an unfair arrangement, but it's the only one we have

beliefless dogmasless I don't understand how it is a belief, it's factual that this is our only planet we can currently live on, and it's factual that if the planet dies, we die

beliefless dogmasless if this is all a belief why do you bother doing anything? Why do you eat, sleep, wear clothes, talk to people, why do you go through the stages life? As for death, of course I am concerned, I love my friends, family, and this Earth, I want to see my neice and nephew get older, I want to start a family of my own, yes we should accept death in it's natural form, but no one wants to die preemptively except those who might of had terrible lives or just have extremely negative views on the world, again touching on the sky and what not because I get side tracked, I do believe that the is blue 100%, yes someone taught me that, but we are taught nearly every thing from others our entire lives, doesn't make them not true, the color of the sky matches everything I know about the color blue, therefore I believe whole-heartedly that the sky is indeed blue

The Earth will be quite fine, even if all life dies out. It'll still be around for several billion years more, when not a trace of any of us still remains. What this expresses is the need for status-quo, and both the Earth and the universe will have different ideas about that, regardless of whatever we do.

mappyhappychappy of course It will, but while humanity is here, will it maintain the means of hosting organ, carbon based life, or will we ruin it? The balance of Earth's current state of being is fragile

Dancing. But I agree, it's not for ted talk.

Yeah, people in this comment section are very negative. They should make a ted talk about manners. :P

¿Porque no los dos?

Mars sucks, and the Earth is beautiful.

Of course your twelve, even though this has purpose dances rarely have ever effected people in a way that could save the earth if these people spent the time building an argument then maybe itd have some purpose

daisydoodlepops Very well said for a twelve year old. I think people here dislike this because they are close minded and can't appreciate something they find no value in. They like this channel for its scientific content, which they have placed value in. Hopefully they realize that science isn't the only thing in the world with value in it.

LOL well if your 12 I guess it's fine to demand others do work for you because there's nothing a 12 year old can do to help the environment NOTHING.

+Seth Perry you seem to be the close minded one even after multiple people have said why they disagree with this video you call them close minded for not agreeing with you because your a paragon of virtue who dictates all that is good and right and if someone doesn't place value in the same thing you do they are close minded fools even if they have a well reasoned argument as to why

maxybaer123 I have yet to see a well structured, intelligent, and persuasive argument. Saying "bu-t, this is a science channel" isn't something which we can call that.

maxybaer123 Did you read the description? It is a struggle between humans and Earth.

How do you know?

You can't please all people all the time?

mappyhappychappy true but damn....

$500 billion going to the arts every year and not a single cent to the military. It's a disgrace.

+Adam Merron What's a "RU-vid page"? Do you mean account? You seem very confused. You see, some idiot put a retarded dance video on a science channel, that's why most people are upset.

+beleifless dogmasless You really need to find a better English teacher; you have no grasp of the language at all. To say that there is no such thing as science is to say that you're an idiot. Science is what made the device you;re using to display your ignorance. If there was no such thing as science, we wouldn't have to deal with your idiocy.

DIVAD291 "Scency stuff"... yeah surely you have a real understanding and appreciation of science.

i thinks i has a dacent undardstendin of tha sciency stuff kinda. i undstands it so wellz dat i canz speaketh coherent san tan ses wit out praper grammatically.

KALEIDO jess oh honey, we have personality, it's just that Ted TALKS isn't Ted Dancing/Performance Art for a reason. I mean honestly... what ideas in that we're worth spreading? Talent sure. But if you're going to push a religious agenda there's other avenues for that. I didn't like on it and I didn't dislike on it. I just want it to be displayed properly.

KALEIDO jess having different tastes than yours doesn't mean not having a personality

Katrina Hardeman except talking, communicating is a lot more than just words.

In my view! There are many ways to interact and communicate than only talking

no name Does that make your mom subhuman?