TEDxBrainport - trailer Enlighten my Brain
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Trailer TEDxBrainport in Eindhoven on May 13th 2011. A unique look behind the scenes of one of the world's most creative and innovative regions. High-quality speakers from within and outside the Brainport region will enlighten your brain with inspiring talks and performances. Our humble ambition is to provide you with new insights and to trigge... Read more
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- -: TEDxBrainport - trailer Enlighten my Brain
May 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Trailer TEDxBrainport in Eindhoven on May 13th 2011. A unique look behind the scenes of one of the world's most creative and innovative regions. High-quality speakers from within and outside the Brainport region will enlighten your brain with inspiring talks and performances. Our humble ambition...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - Bert Meijer - Why we cannot make life?
May 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Why is it important to make life? We are quickly using up all natural resources while creating more and more waste. To ensure we can survive on earth in the future, we will need to be able to create simple life. The key step is to be able to make cells. Currently, we don't know enough about the ...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - John Kormeling - How much grass one sees in an open field
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)John Kormeling - How much grass one sees in an open field. Some interesting mathematics by architect John Kormeling. Imagine you're 1.7 m tall. Looking around, a quick calculation shows that you can see 75 km2 of grass. If you are an architect and your name is John Kormeling, this observation sp...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - Margriet Sitskoorn - Why can we ignore people in need?
May 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)When Margriet Sitskoorn realised she had ignored a homeless man shivering in the snow while walking back to her hotel after a conference, she felt guilty. How could she have let that happen? In her search for an anwer, she turned to science and discovered two things: the mimicing nature of our br...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - Lisa van Nes
May 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The youngest participant at TEDxBrainport, 16 year-old musician Lisa van Nes, got a spot in the line-up by winning a Facebook contest. Van Nes gets her inspiration and drive from the emotions she can trigger in people with her music. And she certainly triggered emotions at TEDxBrainport with one ...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - Gilli - The sixth sense revealed
May 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The sixth sense is an illusion. Through his own investigations of the paranormal community, Gili has discovered that there is only one real thing about the paranormal business: money. Thanks to recent television shows, mediums are now more popular than ever and paranormal events crowded. Millions...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - Mark Post - Meet the new meat
May 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)What do you think about laboratory-made meat? "Yuck" is likely your first reaction. Terms like 'Frankenburger' and 'Lab chops' might spring to mind. So why would we want to create artificial meat? Because breeding cows and pigs for their meat is inefficient. Only parts of the animal are consumed ...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - Sander Veenhof - 3D 2.0
May 24, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Do you want a personal hotline to the Oval Office? Or your own artwork exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)? Sander Veenhof can arrange it for you. Or actually, he already has. With a bit of the guerrila in his talk and in his projects, he triggers us to activate our creativity a...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - Koert Van Mensvoort - Nano Supermarket
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)"Nano is small" is too small a statement for Koert Van Mensvoort. Rather, he asks himself: "What can nano mean for our lives?" And what better place to look for an answer than in the supermarket? For us, perhaps a quite mundane place, but just imagine how a caveman would feel if he was dropped i...
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- -: TEDxBrainport - Simona Rocchi - Design for social empowerment
May 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)How design changed from "making things more beautiful" to "shaping societal proceses and sustainable solutions for global challenges". Rocchi takes us on her journeys to lower-income regions in India where she was involved in helping entire communities to collaborate and create a better future f...
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