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- -: Larry Brilliant: TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that can identify and contain pandemics before they spread. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from ...
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- -: Larry Brilliant: The case for informed optimism
December 7, 2007 (over 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com We've known about global warming for 50 years and done little about it, says Google.org director Larry Brilliant. In spite of this and other depressing trends, he's optimistic and tells us why. From Skoll World Forum, Oxford, UK, www.skollfoundation.org TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: Green@Google: Stewart Brand
March 18, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Stewart Brand, an icon of the environmental movement, outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet. In his latest book, Brand proposes solutions for three profound transformations which are underway right now: climate change, urbanization and biotechnology. In 1966 he campaigned...
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- -: Charlie Rose Greenroom - Larry Brilliant
February 22, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Charlie Rose Greenroom - Larry Brilliant
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- -: Facebook COO: Working Moms Need Help from Working Dads
February 10, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/30/The_Gender_Agenda_Putting_Parity_into_Practice Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg reflects on her own experiences as a mother and a woman in the corporate world to call for social change in the work / home balance between men and women. "We all lose because...
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Daniel Goleman: Compassion
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Daniel Coleman shows how humans are innately compassionate but are just too busy or preoccupied to notice their instinct to show compassion.
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Larry Brilliant: The Case For Optimism
January 1, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Larry Brilliant gives reasons to become optimistic despite the global issues our race is facing and the next generation will be handling for us.
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Robin Chase: Zipcar and Her Next Big Idea
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Robin Chase gives ideas on how to decrease carbon consumption such as car sharing, implementing congestion pricing and interstate wireless mesh systems.
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Jamais Cascio: Tools For a Better World
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Jamais Cascio shows us the tools that we can immediately use and develop to make a better world now.
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Larry Brilliant: Stopping Pandemics
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Previous pandemics and pending pandemics are discussed by Larry Brilliant to advocate the "early detection, early response" technique to stopping these pandemics.
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Thulasiraj Ravilla: How Low-Cost Eye Care Can Be World-Class
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Thulasiraj Ravilla shows how making eye-care available for poor people is clearly possible.
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