Joshua Klein TED Talk

1. What are your take-aways from this video?
I think that understanding how smart other animals are really shows how ignorant humans are for being so intelligent.  We know about DNA, we can go to space, but most the population treats very intelligent animals as scum. I think the speaker has a great point in saying that we can have a mutually beneficial relationship with animals such as crows. I think this principle of understanding also can be used in relationships with other humans. We are all different, but if we understand each other we can benefit from the relationship.
2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
He is very relaxed. He laughs at some of his own jokes, and sometimes goes on a little bit of a tangent. I think that this shows he knows a lot about the subject and that he does get excited about it. This knowledge and excitement can then be passed to the audience listening, again creating trust for the audience.
3. What is his/her presentation style?
Throughout this video, he shows videos and pictures that I think illustrate his point better than he could have ever spoken. I think that in many circumstances a picture is worth a thousand words, and a video is worth a thousand pictures. It gives people more than one sense to rely on. From just auditory, to auditory and visual which helps two of the three main learning types.
4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
 This video in my opinion does not have much meaning to the world. It is interesting to find out about crows and their brain and how intelligent they are, but as of yet we have not been able to use crows to change much. They could perhaps in the future help with search and rescue or collecting change. I don't think they could effect education or me very much either. As I stated before, I think that it shows the idea that we must first understand animals, other humans, or situations before reacting to them.