- -: TEDxESADE - Enric Segarra - Companies that Thrieve
June 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Companies that Thrive Resulting from an agile analysis of the strategies used by companies that the author identifies as winners, and which would explain the success they have achieved (a non-linear, disruptive, provocative perspective which challenges conventionalisms and the pre-existing rules...
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- -: TEDxGallatin Art+Science - Sheiva Rezvani - A History of Fashion and Science of Sex
June 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Sheiva Rezvani is a new media artist, writer and graphic designer dedicated to smart visual solutions and to promoting feminism and progressive causes using new media technologies. She has worked and trained in digital media industries for ten years, starting with television broadcasting and edit...
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- -: TEDxSaltLakeCity - Beau Seil - Solving Social Problems Profitably
June 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Beau Seil, Managing Partner of Unitus Impact, discusses principles for solving complex social problems with for-profit solutions. Beau is responsible for generating deal flow and evaluating investment opportunities for Unitus Impact ("UI"), a new for-profit investment firm spun-out of the non-pr...
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- -: TEDxOverlake - Merilee Wilmore - An Informal Education
June 30, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Merilee is a Naturalist and Mentor currently working for Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA. She is a graduate of the Anake Outdoor School at Wilderness Awareness School and spent a year as an Apprentice Instructor for the adult program through their Anake Leadership Program. While Merilee...
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- -: TEDxBloomington -- Jessica Quirk -- "Look Good, Feel Good: The Case for Playing Dress Up"
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Jessica Schroeder Quirk is the author behind What I Wore, a personal-style and fashion-based blog, and What I Wore: Four Seasons, One Closet, Endless Recipes for Personal Style, due in bookstores this summer. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in Apparel Merchandising, Jessica worked ...
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- -: TEDxBloomington -- Corey Jefferson -- "Sound and Motion and Tiger/Martian/Businessperson"
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)A Bloomington native, Corey Jefferson began acting and studying improvisational performance while a student at Bloomington High School South in 2000. He co-founded two Bloomington-based improv comedy groups, Cletus & Virgil and The Trickle-Down Effect. Most recently, he performed in Bill & Erin: ...
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- -: TEDxPortland - Elliot Mainzer - The Power Grid
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Executive VP, Corporate Strategy — Bonneville Power Administration Elliot Mainzer has built a career devoted to combining renewable energy with our existing power model. In 2006 he led the development of the Northwest Wind Integration Action Plan to establish a cost-effective integration of wind...
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- -: TEDxBaltimore 2011 MESHELLE The Truth About Goaldiggers (The Future We Make)
July 4, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The Truth About Goaldiggers Speaker: MESHELLE MESHELLE is a wife, mother, and sought after comedienne whose appearances include Nickelodeonʼs Search for the Funniest Mom in America 3, and shows such as Martin Lawrence Presents: THE FIRST AMENDMENT STAND UP and BETʼs Comic View. MESHELLE also pio...
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- -: TEDxBaltimore 2011 HEMMINGER The Future We Make
July 4, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Speaker: Sarah Hemminger Sarah Hemminger founded the Incentive Mentoring Program in 2004. With several years of experience of nonprofit management and of advocacy and mentoring for at-risk teens, her expertise lies in the development, expansion, and replication of innovative, paradigm-shifting mo...
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- -: TEDxPolverigi - Joe Lambert - Putting Purpose to Pixels
July 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Joe Lambert is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley, CA. Joe's work in professional theater in the 80′s and 90′s led to his joining with collaborators to develop a method for capturing personal stories in new media, the Digital Storytelling Workshop....
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- -: TEDxO'Porto - Nancy Frederick e Teresa Pereira - This is a good world.
July 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Teresa was born in Lisbon after the April Revolution in a country beggining it's european adhesion. Those were Portugal's international steps after the Descobrimentos age, when we reached India and settled an entire new world geographic map. TIAGW is about building an emotional one. Teresa grew u...
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- -: TEDxKL - Afzal Abdul Rahim - Boardband by Numbers
July 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Afzal Abdul Rahim, a Malaysian aged 31, was appointed as Director & Chief Executive Officer of TIME dotCom Berhad on 7 October 2008. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering with Electronics, specicalising in Acoustic Wave Theory from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He ser...
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- -: TEDxLondonBusinessSchool - Khaled Tawfik - Egypt
July 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Khaled Tawfik was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt and lived there for the majority of his life. Over the last 10 years, he has lived all over the world in various capacities, culminating in him joining the 2012 MBA class of London Business School. Despite being an avid traveler and thoroughly ...
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- -: TEDxLondonBusinessSchool - Andy Stefanovich - The Museum Mentality
July 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Andy has earned a reputation as one of the most disruptive and effective advisors in business. As the Chief Curator and Provocateur at Prophet with twenty years of experience, Andy leads a team of experts to create change and inspire leaders of Fortune500 companies. GE, General Mills, Proctor & G...
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- -: TEDxTheHague - Rachelle Eerhart - Urban Farmer, Taking a Natural Cycles Perspective
July 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Rachelle Eerhart, Urban farmer, Japanologist, reader, writer and dancer. My first motivation is having a good life. Not the planet, not nature, me. In search of this good life however, I have found that living it more in sync with nature makes me happy. Taking care of the planet means taking care...
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- -: TEDxTheHague - Richard de Ruijter - Fitness in 2011
July 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Richard de Ruijter, Entrepreneur fitness, health and wellness industry. My passion is helping people to change their lifestyle. I am always looking for new opportunities to get people into shape. Together with my wife Nanda I own a small fitness and personal training studio in The Hague. At TEDxT...
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - Michael Zuckerman - A World's Cup
August 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Michael Zuckerman is the founder of 3rdSpaces, Director of Sustainability for San Francisco's Temple Nightclub, and Chair of the Kyebando Green Age in Kampala, Uganda. Under his guidance, Temple Nightclub (the host site of the inaugural TEDxAlcatraz) has established industry best practices in res...
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- -: KIM HERB "The Jew in the Climate: on resting and resiliency"
August 4, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Kimberly Herb TITLE: "The Jew in the Climate: on resting and resiliency" Ms. Herb holds a B.A. in Philosophy from St. John's College (Santa Fe), an M.P.A. from the University of Wisconsin's LaFollette School of Public Affairs, and a certificate in Energy Analysis and Policy from UW's Gaylord Nels...
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- -: TEDxLondonBusinessSchool - Kevin Eyres - Talent & Social Networks
August 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Currently Kevin Eyres is an Angel investor within the technology space, on the Board of Advisors for "Tech City UK" with the UK Government, Chairman of Spoonfed Media and actively involved in YPO (Young Presidents Organization). Kevin has been responsible for the International operations of thre...
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- -: TEDxPalermo - Reda Berradi - Cultural Mediation for Intercultural Solutions
August 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The TEDxPalermo Talk by Reda Berradi was held in the morning of April30th. The location due to bad weather was changed at the very last minute with the studio427. Reda Berradi, Philosopher of Moroccan Origin, now 34 years old, arrived in Palermo with his parents 25 years ago when visas and reside...
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- -: TEDxDavis - Brennan Bird
August 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In this eye-opening talk, Brennan Bird shares his experiences attempting to promote sustainability. One of his projects, involves using "bottle bricks" in order to recycle our waste in a simple and convenient way. He asks us to use these simple ideas in our everyday life to make a better tomorrow...
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- -: TEDxUSC - Jose Antonio Rosa - Hope and Innovation Among the Next Four Billion
August 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Psychologist Jose Antonio Rosa seeks to understand innovation in its purest form. In his research, he lived amongst the four billion people who sustain on less than $2 a day, communities we know little about, and witnessed the way these people make being innovative, experimental, and creative a w...
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- -: TEDxPLAZACIBELES Michael Braungart Green ICTs Cradle 2 Cradle
August 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart is a German chemical engineer, founder and managing director of the EPEA (Environmental Protection and Encouragement Agency) in Hamburg and scientific director of the Hamburg Environmental Institute. Furthermore, he works as a professor of Process Engineering at the Un...
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- -: TEDxGallatin - Sheiva Rezvani - A History of Fashion and Science of Sex
August 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Sheiva Rezvani is a new media artist, writer and graphic designer dedicated to promoting feminism and progressive causes using new media technologies. She has worked and trained in digital media industries for ten years, starting with television broadcasting and editing, and eventually transitio...
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- -: TEDxSoCal - Dr. Brian Stecher - Cultivating Thriving Schools
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Brian Stecher is a senior social scientist and the associate director of RAND Education. Stecher's research focuses on measuring educational quality and evaluating education reforms, with a particular emphasis on assessment and accountability systems. During his 20 years at RAND, he has directed ...
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- -: TEDxStHilda'School - Russell Manfield - Grazing a New Menu
August 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Russell will speak about an animal fodder production system. Russell is Chairman of Dynamic Agri Tech Ltd, an agricultural products and services enterprise currently listing on the ASX. The key product line of the company is the fodder production system, which represents the central idea of Mr ...
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- -: TEDxSoCal - Chip Conley - Toward a Psychology of Business
August 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Chip Conley is the founder and executive chairman of Joie de Vivre, California's largest boutique hotel company consisting of over 40 award-winning hotels, spas and restaurants. Chip and his company's time-tested techniques and transformational leadership practices have been featured in Fast Comp...
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- -: TEDxWanChai - Darius Yuen - Sow Asia
August 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A fascinating and informative quest of an investment banker that is faced with the question -- how much is enough and what next? We learn of his own pursuit of charitable giving, including the set up of SOW Asia 'Investing in Humanity'. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program o...
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- -: TEDxAveiro - Fernando Braga de Matos - Proposal to youngsters to save and invest
August 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Fernando Braga de Matos has a University degree in Law (UC), retired lawyer and former university professor. He is the author of "Winning on the Stock Exchange", "Stock Exchange For Beginners" and "Politically Incorrect Chronicles". Studious about financial markets and investing on the stock mark...
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- -: TEDxNASA@SiliconValley - Rogers Smith - Technical Passion and Leadership
September 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Rogers has been a test pilot, engineer and technical leader, and his accomplishments are recognized here and abroad. His career has been interesting and fulfilling personally. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together ...
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- -: TEDxHelsingborg - Thomas Ermacora - Do you live in a village?
September 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Thomas Ugo Ermacora - Creative Platform Curator, is a passionate danish-italian urbanist and geographer acting mostly as a creative social entrepreneur focused on sustainability. Skeptical about the ethos in architecture and planning professions after work with Zero Carbon projects in Europe he s...
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- -: TEDxNarimanPoint - Anand Chulani - Transformation in Education
September 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)After writing for hit shows on BBC and FOX like the Simpsons and Goodness Gracious Me, creating TV shows for the Disney Channel and touring with Russell Peters and Martin Lawrence, leadership & laughter coach, Anand Chulani worked with Palestinian and Israeli youth and created the LOL Method, whi...
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- -: TEDxHarare - Marianne Knuth - The Power of Collaboration
September 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Marianne Knuth is an experienced facilitator and designer of group learning and co-creation processes. Marianne is passionate about supporting people in coming together in more authentic and life-affirming ways to connect to previously unseen possibility. She has worked in Africa, Europe and Nort...
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- -: TEDxKC - Jenn Lim - Applied Happiness
September 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Zappos.com built an enduring brand through customer service and company culture, but even more interesting is that they succeeded by using happiness as a business model. Drawn by the notion that anyone can apply the science of happiness to work, communities and our everyday lives, happiness has ...
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- -: TEDx1000Lakes - Dane Smith - And How are the Children?
September 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dane Smith, president of Growth & Justice, stresses the importance of investing in children and education from cradle to career. Using examples from Itasca County, Cook County and Willmar, Dane shows the impact of education and participation on a community. In the spirit of ideas worth spreadin...
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- -: TEDxFortGreeneSalon - Dr. Ben Dubin-Thaler - The Cell Motion BioBus
September 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The Cell Motion BioBus was founded in August, 2007 by Ben Dubin-Thaler, only weeks after he presented his Ph.D. thesis on how cells move. Turning down a number of job offers, Dr. Ben pursued his dream of building a vehicle for bringing hands-on science education to communities that rarely have su...
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- -: TEDxFlanders - Dez Mona feat. BOX - Utopian musicians
September 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dez Mona is one of the most intriguing Belgian bands. The wide vocal range of singer Gregory Frateur and bass player Nicolas Rombouts determine the sound, which evokes the music of those such as Nina Simone, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Waits and Antony and the Johnsons. With BOX (Baroque Orchestrat...
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- -: TEDxFoCo - Amy Cosper - Treponomics
September 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized even...
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- -: TEDxLakeshoreEast - Neal Sales-Griffin - Doing What You Love
October 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Neal Sales-Griffin is the founder and CEO of Code Academy. Code Academy is an organization that teaches students new to software development how to build web applications in 12 weeks. At the same time, Code Academy shares its network of entrepreneurs and investor to help students bring their ow...
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- -: TEDxMileZero - Linda Rogers - Small Change for Big Change, Investing in Language
October 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Linda Rogers stole all the family recipes, secrets, sacred cows and skeletons and put them in the meat grinder her first husband gave her for processing poetry. She dispensed with him (the same grinder) but kept the appliance. Great writing, like cooking, is about assembling the best ingredients,...
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- -: TEDxBrisbane 2011 - David Abrey - Justice
November 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)David Abrey is an interesting man The name of his law firm, Harper Finch is inspired from the classic "to Kill a Mocking Bird. In a 3 minute Brain Burst, he tells us that "& all you need is.... Justice!"
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- -: TEDxThePineSchool-AurthurBenjamin-Mathemagic
November 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Arthur Benjamin makes numbers dance. In his day job, he's a professor of math at Harvey Mudd College; in his other day job, he's a "Mathemagician," taking the stage in his tuxedo to perform high-speed mental calculations, memorizations, and other astounding math stunts. It's part of his drive to ...
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- -: TEDxLaJolla - Glenn Parish - Coffee, Poverty, and the New Consumer Revolution
December 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Glenn Parrish brings more than 20 years of leadership experience working with businesses and philanthropy to make a lasting social impact through innovative and economically sustainable approaches. Specializing in start-ups he has pioneered entrepreneurial social enterprises such as the Rising Ti...
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- -: TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 - Paula Apsell - Using Television to Teach Science
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Paula Apsell got her start in broadcasting at WGBH Boston and in 1975 joined NOVA, a science documentary series that has set the standard for science programming on television. Today, NOVA is the most popular science series on American television and online. Under Apsell's leadership, NOVA has wo...
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- -: TEDxLaJolla - Gary Goldstein - Leapfrogging Life's Three Noes
December 6, 2011 (over 12 years ago)ENTERTAINING BEGINNINGS Music was an early passion and, during those early years, Gary lived a stone's throw from the homes and hangouts of the Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Santana, Country Joe, Steve Miller and Quicksilver. As A&R rep for Columbia Records while still an und...
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Marie Baillargeon: TEDxFiDiWomen - Marie Baillargeon
December 6, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Marie Baillargeon is a state certified community Advocate for women and children of Domestic Violence. She is a volunteer for NEWS (Napa Emergency Women's Services), serves on the Board of Directors for the University of San Francisco Alumni Association and Scholarship Program, and the Founder of...
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- -: Jacqueline Novogratz: Investing in Africa's own solutions
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Jacqueline Novogratz applauds the world's heightened interest in Africa and poverty, but argues persuasively for a new approach. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invit...
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- -: Caroline Lavelle: A cello performance that casts a spell
May 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral themes. She performs "Farther than the Sun," backed by Thomas Dolby on keyboards. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best ta...
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- -: Euvin Naidoo: Africa as an investment
August 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk ...
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- -: Jacqueline Novogratz: Tackling poverty with "patient capita
August 14, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com - Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution, outlined here through a series of revealing personal stories, is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses ...
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- -: Paul Rothemund: Casting spells with DNA
October 18, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Paul Rothemund writes code that causes DNA to arrange itself into a star, a smiley face and more. Sure, it's a stunt, but it's also a demonstration of self-assembly at the smallest of scales -- with vast implications for the future of making things. TEDTalks is a daily video p...
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- -: Chris Jordan: Picturing excess
June 23, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
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- -: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow
October 24, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow." Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/tednews Checkout...
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- -: Peter Ward: Earth's mass extinctions
January 28, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Renny Gleeson: Busted! The sneaky moves of antisocial smartphone users
April 10, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're having right now is less interesting than what we'll tweet about it later. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best ta...
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- -: Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world
September 2, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com As we reboot the world's economy, Geoff Mulgan poses a question: Instead of sending bailout money to doomed old industries, why not use stimulus funds to bootstrap some new, socially responsible companies -- and make the world a little bit better? TEDTalks is a daily video pod...
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- -: Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
October 14, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequence...
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- -: Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide
March 8, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. TEDTalks is a daily video po...
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- -: Kavita Ramdas: Radical women, embracing tradition
April 26, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Investing in women can unlock infinite potential around the globe. But how can women walk the line between Western-style empowerment and traditional culture? Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women talks about three encounters with powerful women who fight to make the world ...
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- -: Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty
May 4, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid's impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it's possible to know which development efforts help and which hurt -- by testing solutions with randomized tr...
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- -: Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world
June 29, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more cooperative world. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the b...
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- -: Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps
September 24, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast ...
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- -: Tim Jackson's economic reality check
October 5, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks...
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- -: Rajesh Rao: Computing a Rosetta Stone for the Indus script
June 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles": How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization. TED...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Michiel van Haersma Buma - Building dikes is not always the answer
December 5, 2011 (over 12 years ago)What happens if you use the method of 'thinking the other way around' to find a solution to cope torrential rain, yearly flooding, and not enough public space to use standard simple measures in a beautiful ancient city like Delft? Is it possible to find possibilities and viable solutions to preve...
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- -: TEDxBOULDER - Joel Gratz - More Than A 5-Day Forecast
October 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Joel Gratz is a meteorologist and outdoor sports junkie. He loves looking at clouds, radar images, and helping people make the most of their time outside when weather could be an issue. Joel started two weather forecasting websites catering to the outdoor community: ColoradoPowderForecast.com for...
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- -: TEDxRotterdam - Rosanne van Sandwijk - Inspiring music & Hiphop will lead the future
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)ROSANNE VAN SANDWIJK & HIPHOPHUIS - inspiring music & hiphop will lead the future HipHopHuis is a place where dancers, DJs and beat makers develop their skills in hip hop. But that"s not all. HipHophuis is more than just a studio where young people can pop, beatcreat, Bboy or ladyhop. HipHophuis ...
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- -: TEDxRotterdam - Sander Veenhof- Augmented Reality will lead the future
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)SANDER VEENHOF - augmented reality will lead the future Sander Veenhof is making art projects on the cross section of art and computer science. But that's not all. Veenhof is more than just an artist who knows how to handle computers. He leads the way by using his considerable knowledge of emergi...
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- -: TEDxRotterdam, Marjolijn v. Heemstra en Mariëlle Rijkaart, Those who follow us will lead the future
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)MARJOLIJN VAN HEEMSTRA & MARIËLLE RIJKAART those who follow us will lead the future Marjolijn van Heemstra is a journalist, writer, poet and theater maker. But that's not all. Van Heemstra is more than just a poetic journalist. She leads the way by being the first to have her debut collection of...
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- -: TEDxRotterdam - Willem-Paul Brinkman- Virtual reality will lead the future
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)WILLEM-PAUL BRINKMAN - virtual reality will lead the future Willem-Paul Brinkman is a researcher and examines the interaction between man and machine. But that's not all. Brinkman is more than just a researcher delivering intricate studies, which are only interesting for his peers. He leads the w...
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- -: TEDxRotterdam - Marijn Berk - Wireless power will lead the future.
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)MARIJN BERK - wireless power will lead the future Marijn Berk was named 2011's best young entrepreneur, and was awarded a scholarship by the Kauffman foundation, which brought him to Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Silicon Valley. But that's not all. Berk is more than just a clever young businessman....
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- -: TEDxRotterdam - Merijn Bollink - Great - but accidentally discovered - ideas will lead the future
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)MERIJN BOLINK - great - but accidentally discovered - ideas will lead the future Merijn Bolink is an artist and is renowned for his art works made out of existing objects, sometimes even out of dead dissected animals. But that's not all. Bolink is more than an artist with a profound interest in r...
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- -: Kelly and Rives: How we emcee
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Director of TED Content and TEDActive, Kelly Stoetzel, and the prolific performance poet, storyteller, and author, Rives, talk through some of their best tips and tricks for hosting TEDx events.
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- -: Kelly and RIves: How we emcee for young audiences
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Director of TED Content and TEDActive, Kelly Stoetzel, and the prolific performance poet, storyteller, and author, Rives, talk about the differences between hosting events for adults and for kids.
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- -: TEDxTransmedia 2011 - Michel Reilhac - Twice upon a time
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Michel Reilhac is currently Head of Cinema for the French/ German public cultural broadcasting company ARTE France, acquiring about 100 films a year and co-producing each year around 25 independant features worldwide. In TEDxTransmedia he explains us a new storytelling language in the making. ...
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- -: TEDxSanMigueldeAllende - Mariana Braun - Sexo, Silencio y Senioritas
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mariana Braun has fifteen years of experience in radio and television, nationally and internationally (with over 7000 hours broadcasting live); as host, master of ceremonies, special events, commercials and conventions. She has been a producer and coordinator of her own programs on television and...
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- -: TEDxTransmedia 2011 - Marieke Hermans - Out of the Box
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Marieke Hermans is a creative media professional with a clear vision of innovation in media content. As Innovation Manager at the Dutch Public Broadcasting (NPO) she directs the NPOX network for over 2500 media professionals initiating and organizing more than 200 workshops and an annual festival...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Christofer Hierold - Are nanosensors the future's guardian angels?
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)As a research engineer you're always at the avant-garde of technological development. And depending on your imagination, estimates and success you'll drive scientific progress. As we're about to apply for the biggest EU-project yet, we're dreaming ten, fifteen years ahead: What will it be like wh...
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- -: TEDxMaumeeRiver - Anton Babich - How I turned my passion in to a business
October 19, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized even...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Maisie Greenawalt - Conference Opener
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)When it comes to addressing the problems of farmworkers, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. But what we do know is that a cheap food system built on the backs of the poor is immoral and unsustainable. About Maisie Greenawalt, TEDxFruitvale host: Maisie is cofounder and president of the Bon Appétit ...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - José Gutierrez - Leaving the Fields Behind
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)When José was 11, newly arrived from Mexico, his father warned him of the hard work in the peach orchards. His dad said, "This is the type of job you'll be doing if you don't focus in school." José decided to help out his family while in high school, by picking alongside his father. But ultimatel...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Barry Estabrook - Following the Money in Lake Apopka, FL
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)What happened on the shores of Lake Apopka, Florida, was an unprecedented environmental and human tragedy. Looking at who profited from it and who paid for it is a stark reminder of how little we respect and value the men and women who feed us. About Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland: Stin...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Wayne Pacelle - Animals, Humans: We're All Connected
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)How did we go from animal husbandry, where farmers cared for their animals, to "meat science"? From a relationship with living beings, to treating them like a commodity? Those who abuse animals are likely to abuse other people, and that includes farmworkers. About Wayne Pacelle, President and C...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Gerardo Reyes-Chavez - Making Corporations Pay
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The Coalition of Immokalee Workers represents tomato pickers in Florida, a group with seemingly no power in our society. Yet the CIW has moved some of the largest corporations in the world to pay Florida workers a penny a pound more for their efforts -- which adds up to serious money -- as well a...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Arturo Rodriguez - Why We Need Unions More Than Ever
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The laws on the books are often not the laws that exist in the fields for farmworkers. Sixteen California farmworkers have died of heat stress since 2005, when a law requiring shade was passed. Farmworkers need to band together to look out for their own interests. About Arturo S. Rodriguez, pr...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Nikki Henderson - The Black Power and Farmworker Movements
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Surely two of the biggest social justice movements of the 1960s were working together? Yes, they were -- but the shared history of the Black Power and César Chávez movements isn't well known. The Black Panthers supported the United Farm Workers' grape boycott by directing members away from Safewa...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Maria Catalan - From Farmworker to Farm Owner
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A third-generation migrant farmworker, Maria Catalan was born in Guerrero, Mexico, where she helped her parents on the family farm before immigrating to the United States in 1986. For many years she worked for California's biggest farms, picking broccoli and carrots. Then she enrolled in a progra...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Flavio Cornejo - What Farmwork Does to A Body
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The human body was not designed to stoop low to the ground for eight or more hours a day. Here's what happens to it. About Dr. Flavio Cornejo, farmworker physician: Flavio is an associate chief medical officer for Salud Para La Gente, a federally designated community health clinic, and partici...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Sanjay Rawal - Filming the Faces Behind Our Food
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Sanjay Rawal's most recent completed film, Challenging Impossibility, was about the unlikely weightlifting exploits of the spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy and played in over 50 festivals. His current production is a feature-length documentary that focuses on farm labor, the roots of inequity in the...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - U. Roberto Romano - Children in Our Fields
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)By some estimates 20% of the handpicked food we eat is picked by kids. In our own country we have legalized an early end to childhood that we do not tolerate abroad. About U. Roberto (Robin) Romano, director of the The Harvest/La Cosecha: Robin is an award-winning producer, still photographer,...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Will Scott - Bring Back Black Farmers
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Slavery left a bad taste in most African-Americans' mouth when it comes to farming. But as Will Scott points out, when we eat together, we don't fight. This nation needs more small farmers, more people growing food in general — black and white. About Will Scott, president of the African American...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Heather Franzese - Changing How You Think About Clothes
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)What are you wearing? Where was it made? "Made" probably makes you think "stitched," but what happened before that? Where did the fabric come from? Did your shirt start on a farm -- as a cotton plant, sheep's wool, a silkworm, petroleum, or a recycled plastic water bottle? These questions matter....
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Eric Schlosser - If You Eat, You're Responsible
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In 2001 journalist Eric Schlosser wrote a best-selling book called Fast Food Nation. Most people remember the unappetizing parts about hamburgers, but he also wrote about meatpacking workers. Since then, he's become an outspoken champion of all farmworkers. This talk was prerecorded and shown d...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Joann Lo - Organizing the Workers in the Food Chain
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In the U.S., 20 million people work throughout the food supply chain. Who are these people? At lower end of the system are people of color, immigrants, and female workers. These low-wage workers subsidize corporate profits and cheap food. Many organizations have come together in the Food Chain W...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Sandy Brown and Adelfo Antonio-Life on A Unionized Organic Farm
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The first certified organic farm in the United States to sign a labor contract with the United Farm Workers, Swanton Berry Farm of Davenport, CA, offers its workers health insurance, vacation and holiday pay, a pension, and other benefits including an employee stock ownership program. About Sand...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Tim Galarneau - Empowering College Students to Control What They Eat
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The junk food industry spends $4.2 billion/year to sell us... crap. College-age students have seen 70,000 junk foods ads by the time they enroll. Here's what some of them are doing to reclaim their rights to real food. About Tim Galarneau, Real Food Challenge: In 2004 Tim founded the Californi...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Andrea Cristina Mercado - Domestic Workers Banding Together
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Taking care of our homes, children, elders, and growing our food, is some of the most essential human work, but it is not valued by our society. It is work done by people of color, immigrants, women. And this devaluation is institutionalized. Domestic workers and farmworkers were left out of th...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Zoe Ellis, Crystal Monee Hall, and Valerie Troutt - The Trouble I've Seen
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)This well-known song started out its life as a traditional African-American spiritual that once brought comfort to this country's first farmworkers. About Zoë Ellis, Crystal Monee Hall, and Valerie Troutt, singers: Zoë is the leader of her own quartet as well as an eight-piece ensemble known as...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Carlos Jackson - Images of the Farmworker Movement
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The iconography of the 1970s farmworker movement emphasized the importance of identifying workers as actual men and women: "I am somebody," declared one poster. About Carlos Francisco Jackson, visual artist and writer: Born and raised in Los Angeles, Carlos attended the University of California...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Amelia Ceja - From Grape Picker to Wine Maker
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Guess what? Beans and tortillas pair nicely with a Cabernet Sauvignon. And it's healthier for you, too. It's possible to operate a successful wine business without leaving behind a love for Mexican culture and memories of being a farm laborer. About Amelia Ceja, president of Ceja Vineyards: Am...
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