- -: Family Guy - Casting Mila Kunis (Paley Center Interview)
August 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Family Guy actress Mila Kunis ("Meg Griffin") and creator/executive producer Seth MacFarlane talk about Mila's audition for the voice of character Meg Griffin.
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- -: Young & the Restless - Actors' Endurance (Paley Center)
August 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Actress Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor) talks about the endurance needed for daily TV. Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott) talks about how thankful he is for the show lasting so long.
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- -: Mad Men - Casting Harry And Ken (Paley Center)
November 9, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Rich Sommer (Harry Crane) and Aaron Staton (Ken Cosgrove) talk about being cast in their roles. (2007)
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- -: Mad Men - Casting the Women (Paley Center)
November 9, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Series creator/executive producer Matthew Weiner talks about casting the women characters and how he was influenced by Helen Gurley Brown. (2007)
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- -: Mad Men - Casting Don Draper And Actors With Manners
November 9, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Series creator/executive producer Matthew Weiner talks about how the cast, as a result of their upbringing, has good manners that help with the portrayal of this era. Jon Hamm (Don Draper) had many auditions but was series creator/executive producer Matthew Weiner's first choice. (2007)
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- -: Dollhouse - Joss Whedon On Casting Dollhouse
November 20, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Moderator Matt Roush (television critic, TV Guide) asks about the casting process. Series creator/executive producer/writer/director Joss Whedon and co-executive producer/writer Elizabeth Craft say that each of the cast members were obviously the right one for the part.
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- -: Monk - Trusting The Writers And Making A Fool Of Oneself (Paley Center)
December 17, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Actors Jason Gray Stanford (Lieutenant Randall Disher), Ted Levine (Captain Leland Stottlemeyer), and Tony Shaloub (Adrian Monk) discuss their confidence in the writing and the show as a collaborative adventure.
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- -: Golden Girls - Casting Dorothy (Paley Center, 2006)
February 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Executive Producer Paul Junger Witt and actresses Rue McClanahan (Blanche) and Betty White (Rose) recount the casting Beatrice Arthur (Dorothy) for the show.
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- -: Ugly Betty - Moving Back to New York (Paley Center, 2009)
April 12, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Moderator Jessica Shaw (Entertainment Weekly) asks executive producer Silvio Horta about moving production of Ugly Betty from LA to New York. The cast members talk about adjusting to filming in New York.
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- -: Fringe - The Show's Timeslot And Purpose Of The Cow (Paley Center, 2009)
April 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Moderator Ken Tucker (Entertainment Weekly) asks how the timeslot of Fringe affected the first season. Executive producers Bryan Burk and Roberto Orci talk about the blessing of coming after House and later on American Idol. Ken Tucker asks about the cow. Roberto Orci and Joshua Jackson joke abou...
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- -: Fringe The Casting Of Blair Brown And Leonard Nimoy (Paley Center, 2009)
April 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Moderator Ken Tucker (Entertainment Weekly) ask how Blair Brown was cast. Co-creator and executive producer J.J. Abrams describes casting Blair Brown, her acting skills, and her increasingly important role. Ken Tucker asks about the casting of Leonard Nimoy and the impact of his guest appearan...
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- -: Boston Legal - David E. Kelley on Casting the Show (Paley Center, 2006)
September 24, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Creator/executive producer David E. Kelley talks about the unusual casting procedure for the show.
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- -: Community - Characters in Dan Harmon's Head (Paley Center, 2010)
October 22, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Moderator John Young asks about the casting process for Community. Executive Producer Russ Krasnoff explains how Creator/Executive Producer Dan Harmon had each character in his head from the beginning. Executive Producer Joe Russo elaborates on finding the perfect actors for each character.
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- -: The Middle - Casting and Auditions (Paley Center Interview)
February 17, 2011 (about 13 years ago)A fan asks Co-Creators and Executive Producers Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline about the casting process for The Middle.
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- -: The Apprentice - Donald Trump on Casting (Paley Center Interview)
May 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)A fan asks Market Burnett (Creator/Executive Producer) and Donald Trump (Executive Producer/Host) how they cast The Apprentice.
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- -: No Responsibility
March 14, 2009 (about 15 years ago)America is facing tough times. Our economy is in need of repair. Millions of Americans are out of work Fortunately, President Obama has offered a plan to get our economy moving again. A responsible plan to create jobs by investing in health care, energy independence and schools. What are the Re...
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- -: National Gen44 Summit
August 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)The DNC/OFA will be hosting the first National Gen44 Summit in Washington, DC from Thursday, September 30th through Saturday, October 2nd. The Summit will be a three-day gathering of the next generation of leaders, the best and brightest -- kicking off with a concert at DAR Constitution Hall (htt...
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- -: In CT, President Obama Warns of "Corporate Takeover of our Democracy"
September 17, 2010 (over 13 years ago)In Connecticut, President Obama Warns of "Corporate Takeover of our Democracy" TRANSCRIPT: This is a tough election season. People are hurting and they are understandably frustrated. And a lot of them are scared. And a lot of them are anxious. And that means that even when people don't have...
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- -: Funhouse
April 21, 2010 (about 14 years ago)"In a desperate attempt to create a political weapon to use against Republicans, President Obama has tried to shut down bipartisan negotiations on financial reform in order to push partisan legislation that will only continue bailouts for big banks and make "too-big-to-fail" the law of the land. ...
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- -: Chairman Priebus Lincoln Day Dinner Message
February 17, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus thanks you for your hard work in assisting the Party.
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- -: Re: If you don't win, will it have been worth it?
January 31, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Romney has made a number of lasting friendships along the way.
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- -: Re: What's in a name? What's in a curse?
February 13, 2008 (about 16 years ago)The characters Darius and Xerxes were named after very interesting Kings in Persian history, who were "wrapped up in comedies of errors." http://www.bigthink.com/arts-culture/literature/7324
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- -: Making People Think They Enjoy Sex
November 13, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Striving for titillation may be fun, but for Jonathan Ames the true aim of writing about the act is somewhat cathartic--if only he could reach all of those needy souls posting odd desires on Craigslist. http://bigthink.com/jonathanames
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- -: Malcolm Gladwell: Who Needs Google?
February 17, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://bit.ly/dEJhEj - Malcolm Gladwell pours cold water on the promises of search technology, suggesting that new technologies are solving problems that don't really exist.
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- -: How Feasible Are Green Energy Alternatives?
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)We don't know which green technologies are going to be the most sustainable in the long run. That's why we should be investing in the research and development of all of them.
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- -: The Intrigue of Social Gaming
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The game designer is most interested in the "social fabric component" of games, and how interactions with other people can become increasingly interesting over time.
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- -: A Radical Way to Fix Cities
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)A new program aims to make new and existing cities sustainable by tapping into their nervous systems.
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- -: Acceptance and Assimilation Breed Mediocrity
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)"An embarrassing kind of conformism" comes with full LGBT assimilation into the mainstream, says the actor and filmmaker. "Being queer is not enough," he says "Certainly it's not interesting enough."
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- -: Follow Your Gut
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Oscar-winning filmmaker James Marsh discusses the moments of inspiration behind his films and emphasizes the importance of trusting your instincts.
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- -: What are history's most interesting mistakes?
June 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The same thinking that led to the Nazi and Communist revolutions also led to the American Revolution.
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- -: How to Lead From Afar
June 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Trusting your people allows you to lead from afar, says Mycoskie.
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- -: Walmart, Inc: Environmental Leader
June 2, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)One of the most interesting stories of the last ten years is the turnaround of the largest company in the world—Walmart.
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- -: The Guitar Is an Instrument of Democracy
June 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Guitar isn't "stuck in a canon": it lets each musician express a unique voice. Succeeding at it means insisting on that voice with absolute confidence.
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- -: Gay Talese: Making Marriage Work by Forgetting Love and Sex
June 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The key to a lasting relationship, says Gay Talese, is looking past the 'mating game's' wonted rituals and flowery ambiguities and learning to emphasize mutual freedom and respect.
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- -: Scandinavian Cooking Is Hot
June 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)There are some very interesting things coming out of the Nordic countries that could challenge the culinary hegemony of Spain and France.
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- -: The Neuroscience of Cocktail Party Conversations
June 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)During a conversation at a cocktail party, you have to make one of two choices: actually listen to the person speaking to you, or nod your head in assent while you focus on a more interesting conversation.
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- -: Stephen Fry: The Importance of Unbelief
June 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)If you assume there's no afterlife, Stephen Fry says, you'll likely have a fuller, more interesting life.
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- -: TEDxPennQuarter 2011 - Bill Smith - Reinventing Social Marketing
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Bill worked for more than 30 years trying to figure out how to help masses of people make positive change in their lives. He designed and managed programs around the world focused on combating infant diarrhea, immunizing children, saving the environment, and reducing obesity. He wrote a couple of...
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- -: TEDxPennQuarter 2011 - Lee Burbage and Sam Moore Cicotello - Reinventing The Workplace
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Sam Moore Cicotello is the Dean of Motley Fool University and is responsible for all of The Motley Fool's learning and development initiatives. She has 10 years of experience in marketing and product strategy and was shocked to find her passion in learning and leadership development. She embraces...
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- -: TEDxClaremontColleges - Allen Proctor - A Vision for Successful Nonprofits
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Allen J. Proctor, founder and principal of Proctor's Linking Mission to Money®, has nearly 30 years of experience evaluating the financial health of organizations, developing effective business strategies, and enhancing organizational effectiveness. Proctor has regularly developed innovative solu...
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- -: TEDxAmoskeagMillyard - Gary Hirshberg - Unexpected Myths about Agricultural Sustainability
October 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Gary Hirshberg is the husband of writer Meg Hirshberg and the father of three yogurt eaters. He is President, and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt producer, and the author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World (Hyperion, 2008). Gary frequently speaks ...
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- -: TEDxOkanaganCollege - Andrew Hay - Building Momentum Towards a Teaching Building
October 30, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Hay's presentation examines the concept of a teaching building. No longer are college buildings passive, Okanagan College's Centre of Excellence enables students to interact with the emerging technologies that are incorporated into the building itself. Dr. Hay holds a doctoral degree in mec...
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- -: TEDxSechelt - Giorgio Magnanensi - Sound Thinking
November 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Described by acclaimed composer Franco Donatoni as "a composer, musician and conductor of great talent and one of the most interesting personalities of the Italian generation," Giorgio Magnanensi has gained an international reputation winning numerous composition awards, and serving as conductor ...
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- -: TEDxWWF - Rory Sutherland: The New Sweet Spot - And How to Find It
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Rory will share with us his views on how the most interesting scientific work nowadays comes often not from within a single discipline but from the happy collision of different fields. In the same way the most interesting business ideas may come from a new combination of old approaches. Rory Sut...
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- -: TEDxJamaica - Simon Benjamin : Investing in Imagination
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Simon Benjamin found his artistic footing at 14 when he began designing t-shirts in Kingston. He has become an awarded, New York-based Director and Designer whose portfolio includes both the world's biggest brands and projects he's done out of personal passion. In this TEDxJamaica talk, Simon de...
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- -: TedxVienna - Table Connect - A Dream Come Touch
November 6, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.tedxvienna.at/ http://www.facebook.com/tedxvienna The Table Connect Team / LOA Design Studio http://www.loa-studio.com/ Lucas Triebl (LOA Design Studio) With long term expertise in the areas of strategic branding and design, Lucas Triebl formed LOA Design Studio together with 3D-ar...
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- -: TEDxJaffa - Amal Elsana Alh'jooj - Insisting on Equality
November 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In her TEDxJaffa talk, Amal Elsana Alh'jooj shares personal stories that document her search for equality. Amal is co-executive director of Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development (NISPED) and founding director of its Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation ...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Tom Vander Ark - Innovations In Education
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Innovations in education In cities such as Delhi and Nairobi around the world children have a passionate desire to learn, but little opportunity. Here at home, we face problems a well: a third of kids don't finish high school, and another third graduate unprepared for college or emp...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Scott Witthoft & Scott Doorley - Cultivating innovative behavior using design
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Cultivating innovative behavior using design What do you think about when you think about a table? A surface with four legs, or an object that can function in many ways? It can be a liberating experience to think about objects in terms of how they function. A table can be tiny, barel...
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- -: TEDxManhattaBeach - Scott Witthoft and Scott Doorley - lorem ipsum
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: lorem ipsum Engineer, designer, and artist Scott Witthoft is a member of the faculty of d.school, Stanford University's hub for innovators. He's an alumnus of the Graduate Joint Program in Design at Stanford, the Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Texas at Austi...
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- -: TEDxBeirut - Ziad Abichaker - A garbage love story
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Ziad AbiChaker CEO at Cedar Environmental www.cedarenv.com On the path to a Zero Waste Society. Ziad is a multi-disciplinary engineer who specializes in building Municipal Recycling Facilities on the communal level going against the trend of a central Mega recycling Plant. While doing research...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Jon Bischke - The Learning and Reputation Graph
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: The learning and reputation graph If Rip Van Winkle were to awaken today after a 100 year sleep, everything would astonish and baffle him, save one thing: our unchanged classrooms. Over the next 100 years, two new concepts are poised to transform the landscape of education - they are...
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- -: TEDxBeirut - Gilbert Doumit - Political Entrepreneurship
November 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Gilbert Doumit Managing Partner -- BRD/I Group Entrepreneur, consultant and civil society activist Gilbert is an entrepreneur, management consultant, reformist, and a civil society activist with a vision to influence the Arab World towards more innovative, inclusive and participatory governance ...
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- -: TEDxBeirut - Liliane Chlela & Clara Sfeir - Euphonic Discordance
November 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Liliane Chlela Musician / Producer / Visual Communicator www.lilianechlela.com Facebook: queenlil Twitter: @lilianechlela Born in 1986, Liliane Chlela is a graphic design formed multidisciplinary artist living and working in Beirut. Musician / Composer / DJ perceiving music from an avant-garde ...
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- -: TEDxBeirut - Ali M. Jaber - The Global Classroom
November 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Ali M. Jaber Dean of the Mohamad Bin Rashed School for Communication at the American University in Dubai and General Director of the MBC TV Group. Ph.D. The Predicament of Pan Arab Television, King's College, University of Cambridge, UK, in progress M.S. Communications, Syracuse University, USA B...
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- -: TEDxHuntsville - Tim Pickens - Explore, Have Fun and Live to Tell About It
November 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TIM PICKENS Tim is commercial space advisor and chief propulsion engineer at Dynetics. He is also team leader of the Rocket City Space Pioneers, a Huntsville-centric commercial team going after the Google Lunar X Prize. He will be the featured scientist in an upcoming episode of the National Geog...
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- -: TEDxHuntsville - Daniel Crosby - You're Not That Great: A Motivational Speech
November 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)DANIEL CROSBY Daniel Crosby is founder of IncBlot Organizational Psychology, a management consultancy headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. IncBlot is comprised of a team of organizational psychologists with expertise in helping business select exceptional people, perfect their existing talent ba...
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- -: TEDxSanJoaquin - Ken Albala - Why We Don't Cook Anymore
November 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific. He is the author or editor of 14 books on food including Eating Right in the Renaissance, Food in Early Modern Europe, Cooking in Europe 1250-1650, The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe, Beans: A His...
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- -: TEDxSanJoaquin - Ron Cordes - Catalyzing Capital to Change the World
November 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Ron D. Cordes is co-Founder of the Cordes Foundation, which he and his wife Marty created in 2006. The primary focus of the Foundation is to utilize social entrepreneurship and impact investing as tools for global poverty alleviation. Ron has enjoyed a 25+ year career in the investment industr...
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- -: TEDxSanJoaquin - Wiclif Otieno - Investing in Youth
November 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)As a former street boy, Wiclif brings deep connections and a superior understanding of the street youth community. After transitioning out of street life, he went on to create Eco Safi Products, a reform youth enterprise project that empowers youth and harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit while...
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- -: TEDxNewEngland | 11/01/11 | Joe Kessler, Generation Y and the New Definition of Success
November 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Young people today -- those referred to as Generation Y, or between the ages of 15 and 35 -- have come of age displaying distinct attitudes and behaviors reflecting the social forces that have shaped their lives. Among the most prominent of these are: they are intensely group-oriented; they defin...
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- -: TEDxEdges 2011 - Francisco Fonseca - "Unraveling Spam"
November 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Francisco Fonseca is CEO of AnubisNetworks and Board Member at National Association of Young Business People (ANJE). Francisco graduated with a degree in management and computer science at the University of Minho. He has extensive experience in high tech industry, services and the consulting fiel...
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- -: TEDxEdges 2011 - José Cabral - "As Simple as a Blog"
November 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)José Cabral, born in 1980, studied Sociology. He first worked as a flight attendant then continued his career in the banking sector. However it is only when he walked through the city with a camera and started taking pictures of people in the streets which he started posting in his blog, O Alfaia...
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- -: TEDxThe Pine School-Aurthur Benjamin-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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- -: TEDxTanta - Ramy Essam -Egyptians Stand Together
November 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Ramy Essam established the band "Mashakel" (translated to "Problems") in 2009 and through this band started to sing for a free life, illustrating the simple daily problems he lives along with all Egyptians under Mubarak's regime. Once the 25 January 2011 revolution kicked off, Ramy held his guit...
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- -: TEDxGWU - Yousef Hijji - Inspiration and Innovation
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Yousef Hijji explains the need for imagination and creativity to solve the world's problems. He demonstrates how inspiration can be drawn from our past experiences and the world around us. Yousef Hijji is an associate professor of chemistry at Morgan State University. He is interested in the sy...
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- -: TEDxAdelaide - Steffen Lehmann - Cities of the future
November 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)"Today's problems cannot be solved if we still think the way we thought when we created them." -- Albert Einstein. Steffen Lehmann presented innovative and bold ideas that could transform our energy-hungry cities to greener urban centres. He argues that we need better models for rapid urbanisati...
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- -: TEDxCrestmoorPark - Kristen Moeller - Fierce Disruption Of The Ordinary
November 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Kristen Moeller thrives while "Disrupting her Ordinary" and inspiring others to do the same. Her first "Disruption" was choosing recovery after struggling for years with addictions and consequently discovering her passion for personal development in 1989. Kristen then earned a Masters degree in M...
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- -: TEDxABQ - Rachel Preston Prinz - How Archaeology teaches Sustainable Architecture
November 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Rachel Preston Prinz is an architectural designer and historian who has worked in the cathedrals and villas of Europe, as well as alongside Americans specializing in religious architecture, historic preservation and ultra-high-end custom residential design. Rachel believes that New Mexico's archa...
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- -: TEDxSechelt - Giorgio Magnanensi - Video Triggering Sound Demo
November 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Described by acclaimed composer Franco Donatoni as "a composer, musician and conductor of great talent and one of the most interesting personalities of the Italian generation," Giorgio Magnanensi has gained an international reputation winning numerous composition awards, and serving as conductor ...
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- -: TEDxCrestmoorPark - Avram Gonzales - InspirACTION
November 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Have you always known that something else was possible? Do you wonder what it would take to create your phenomenal life and never regret the choices you didn't make? What if I told you there was a way to enjoy all of life with total excitement and experience an ever-expanding reality? That's w...
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- -: TEDxStellenbosch - Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler - Bicycle Portraits
November 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler have cycled over 6000km around South Africa meeting and photographing other South Africans with their bicycles. The result is their "Bicycle Portraits" project, a collection of over 500 incredible photographs and equally interesting stories of everyday bicycle com...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Rolf Hut - I am a tinkerer
November 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Rolf Hut is a tinkerer. His main interest and source of a fun is using existing technology in a new and innovative way to measure the earth's weather and climate. He likes to take apart machines and see what he can do with the components in it. The results of this MacGyvering is proof of concept ...
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- -: TEDxBGSU - JIM KUKRAL- AUTHOR AND CONSULTANT
November 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxBGSU - September 16th, 2011. JIM KUKRAL- AUTHOR AND CONSULTANT - HOW TO CATCH HAPPY -- HOW TO REEL IN THE BIGGEST FISH OF ALL. For over 15-years, Jim has helped small businesses and large companies like Fedex, Sherwin Williams, Ernst & Young and Progressive Auto Insurance understand how to...
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- -: TEDxBGSU - PETER ARVAI- CEO & FOUNDER, PREZI
November 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxBGSU - September 16th, 2011. PETER ARVAI- CEO & FOUNDER, PREZI - WHY WE NEED TO MAKE HEALTHCARE COMPARABLE. Peter works to make sharing of ideas more interesting and to boldly zoom where no one has zoomed before. Before joining Prezi he established omvard.se, a company that pushes transpare...
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- -: TEDxSkolkovo - Elena Kovalevskaya - Why is the sky blue?
November 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Elena Kovalevskaya - Development director, Global Lab Russia Network students will be successful -- teachers can be different from what we are used to, and projects can be interesting and creative. About TEDx, x = independently organised event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a ...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Leo Kouwenhoven - That is a one centimeter step
November 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Leo Kouwenhoven is professor Quantum Transport. Quantum mechanics is the theory of atoms and elementary particles. Man itself is made out of atoms as well so quantum is the basis of our existence: life as we know it. Recent studies show that even large objects act quantum like existing in two pla...
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- -: TEDxAkron - Dr. Chuck Sandstrom - Forgiveness as a Way of Life
November 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Sandstrom is the President of Chuck Sandstrom Enterprises and is a seasoned organizational leader. In 2009 he was brutally assaulted by a stranger. Here he discusses how in spite of his life-altering catastrophic brain injury, he unconditionally forgave the man who assaulted him and began act...
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- -: TEDxHelsinki - William Wolfram - Making Of An Entrepreneur
November 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)William Wolfram is the young CEO of Deal Dash. Wolfram believes in prototyping and testing ideas and has been busy with it since the age of four. "Don´t get a job, get a mission", Wolfram says. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring p...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Felienne Hermans - What Archimedes has to say about spreadsheets
November 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Felienne Hermans claims spreadsheets are widely used in industry, sometimes even for business-critical applications, but they can be large and complex, making it difficult for their users to understand how they work, and if they work correctly. Felienne has worked on a software system that visu...
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- -: TEDxVer-o-Peso -- Beth Cheirosinha -- Paixão e orgulho de ser erveira do Ver-o-Peso
November 30, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxVer-o-Peso -- Beth Cheirosinha -- Paixão e orgulho de ser erveira do Ver-o-Peso Beth é erveira na maior feira livre da América Latina, o Ver-o-Peso. Descendente de indígenas e ex-escravos, nasceu em Belém, no bairro do Guamá, onde vive até hoje. É neta e filha de erveiras, de quem herdou o c...
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- -: Will Wright and Brian Eno - Spore Creature Demo
November 27, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Will_Wright_and_Brian_Eno "The Sims" designer Will Wright demonstrates the character-creation phase from his latest game, "Spore," with additional commentary by musician Brian Eno. ----- Will Wright and Brian Eno on "Playing with Time." In a dazzli...
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- -: Will Wright and Brian Eno - Spore Metaverse
November 29, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Will_Wright_and_Brian_Eno "The Sims" designer Will Wright demonstrates the user-created "metaverse" from his latest game, "Spore," with additional commentary by musician Brian Eno. ----- Will Wright and Brian Eno on "Playing with Time." In a dazzli...
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- -: Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems
December 4, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2006/06/26/Will_Wright_and_Brian_Eno Game designer Will Wright and musician Brian Eno discuss the generative systems used in their respective creative works. This clip features original music by Brian Eno. ----- Will Wright and Brian Eno on "Playing with Time....
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- -: Tom Tancredo - Immigration and "Cultural Assimilation"
December 11, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=484 Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) discusses his views on immigration, contrasting the experience of his Italian grandparents with that of modern illegal immigrants. ----- Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo discusses and signs his timely ...
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- -: Art Across Cultures - Lawrence Rinder
December 21, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2006/11/29/Art_Life Lawrence Rinder, former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum, challenges our Western conceptions of art by contrasting them with the art sense of a very different culture, the Maisin tribe of Papua New Guinea. ----- Lawrence Ri...
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- -: Chris Gardner - Excerpt from "The Pursuit of Happyness"
December 25, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=190 Self-made entrepreneur Chris Gardner reads an excerpt from his book, "The Pursuit of Happyness," recounting his experience at an "est" group therapy seminar in 1970s San Francisco. This video was taped at the Museum of the African Diasp...
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- -: Mary Buffett - Warren Buffett and Long-Term Investing
January 22, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=564 Author Mary Buffett discusses billionaire investor Warren Buffett's emphasis on investing for the long-term, and warns against overvaluing short-term profits. ----- Mary Buffett on "The Tao of Warren Buffet." A collection of pithy an...
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- -: John Baez - Ecological Damage from Global Warming
February 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=584 Celebrated mathematical physicist John Baez looks at global warming from an historical perspective, and details the widespread ecological damage that may result from rapid climate change. ----- John Baez - "Zooming Out in Time" The g...
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- -: The Supreme Court on Bush vs Gore - Jan Crawford Greenburg
February 19, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/02/03/Supreme_Conflict Legal analyst Jan Crawford Greenburg discusses the lasting impact on the U.S. Supreme Court of "Bush v. Gore," the historic decision that determined the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. ----- Jan Crawford Greenburg talks a...
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- -: Karl Rove - Forecasting the 2008 Presidential Election
August 14, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1353 White House Deputy Chief of Staff and longtime Republican Party strategist Karl Rove gives his outlook on the 2008 Presidential Election. ----- Karl Rove in conversation with Walter Isaacson at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival. In this...
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- -: Francis Fukuyama - Radical Islam's Threat to Democracy
August 20, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1362 Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and author of "The End of History and the Last Man," argues that radical Islam does not pose as effective a long-term challenge to modernity and liberal democracy as many of its critics think. ---...
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- -: Greil Marcus - The Film Noir City
September 20, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1510 Author and renowned cultural critic Greil Marcus describes the archetypal film noir city in an excerpt from his book, "The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice." ----- Greil Marcus talks about "The Shape Of Things...
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- -: Is the Internet an Effective Forum for Public Debate?
November 28, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/27/Battle_of_Ideas_Digital_Commons Liberal author and columnist Alexander Cockburn argues that the so-called "Digital Commons" has not evolved into an effective forum for public debate. ----- "Digital commons: Does new technology add up to a new public...
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- -: Anti-Mormonism in the 2008 Primaries?
December 6, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/11/10/Mitt_Mormonism_and_the_Media Political author and commentator Amy Sullivan discusses anti-Mormon sentiment Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney may face during the 2008 primary elections. ----- "Mormonism and American Politics: Mitt, Mormon...
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- -: Mitt Romney, Mormons, and the Media
December 6, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/11/10/Mitt_Mormonism_and_the_Media Political scientist Russell Arben Fox examines Mitt Romney's handling of his Mormon faith in regards to his campaign for the 2008 Republican nomination. ----- "Mormonism and American Politics: Mitt, Mormonism, and the Me...
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- -: Secrecy and the Mormon Faith
December 6, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/11/10/Mitt_Mormonism_and_the_Media Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney discusses the tradition of secrecy in the Mormon Church, and speculates on its effects on Mormonism in American culture. ----- "Mormonism and American Politics: Mitt, Mormonism, and ...
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- -: Jimmy Wales - What is Wikia?
January 7, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/07/18/Wikipedia_Founder_Jimbo_Wales Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses Wikia, his for-profit web-hosting service for wikis. ----- Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales in conversation with Chris Shipley. Best known for his major role in the founding of Wiki...
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- -: Contrasting Intelligence on Iraq and Iran
January 30, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/12/18/EU_and_Iran_s_Nuclear_File Middle East expert Emanuele Ottolenghi outlines what he sees as differences in intelligence on Iran's nuclear program with pre-war intelligence on Iraqi WMDs. ----- Emanuele Ottolenghi discusses The EU and Iran's Nuclear F...
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- -: Effective Forecasting - Assume You Are Wrong
February 8, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/11/Paul_Saffo_Secret_to_Effective_Forecasting Technology forecaster Paul Saffo discusses the importance of questioning one's own assumptions when attempting to predict future events. ----- As part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term T...
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