TEDxCalgary - Alanna Mitchell - Sea Sick: Ocean in Crisis
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Alanna Mitchell is a Canadian author and journalist who writes about global science issues. She specializes in investigating changes to the earth's life-support systems and travels the world in search of scientists at the centre of what's going on. In this talk she tells the often humorous story of her journey into the ocean in a submersible. B... Read more
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Alanna Mitchell - Sea Sick: Ocean in Crisis
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Alanna Mitchell is a Canadian author and journalist who writes about global science issues. She specializes in investigating changes to the earth's life-support systems and travels the world in search of scientists at the centre of what's going on. In this talk she tells the often humorous story...
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Mat Wilkins - Teary Eyes and Compromise
July 1, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Mat Wilkins, a young performer and composer, demonstrates the spirit of the day by showing what you do when your equipment goes "off the tracks". Here is what he played instead. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together t...
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Satya Das - Being the Best FOR the World
July 2, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Satya Das has been shaping public opinion in Western Canada for decades as an award winning journalist, author and policy analyst. Founder and Principal of Cambridge Strategies Inc. in Edmonton, Das consults for the private and public sectors on issues of governance, policy design, and whole-syst...
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Judge John Reilly - My Aboriginal Education
July 5, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)At age 30, John Reilly was the youngest Provincial Court Judge ever appointed in Alberta. He presided over courts in Canmore, Banff, and Cochrane, and it was in Cochrane that he had his eyes opened to the inequities faced by aboriginal people in our justice system. Last year, he wrote Bad Medic...
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Mark Blundell - Profit from Misfortune
July 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)In this humorous story of the trials and tribulations of custom motorcycle making, Mark Blundell gives everyone a lesson on the benefits of profiting from misfortune. Blundell's approach to life is to study, experiment and figure things out. His playground is the community at T.J.'S CYCLE in Cal...
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Walter Hossli - Taking Care of the Globe
July 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Weaving together global events and his personal story, Hossli explores the need for interdependence rather than independence asking all of us to take care of the global family. For the past 20 years Walter Hossli has been the driving force behind the non-profit Momentum. Momentum has won the Com...
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Dr. Mark Durieux - The Social Entrepreneur in Us
July 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Dr. Durieux looks at the immense impact of social entrepreneurs on addressing social issues examining their importance and what makes them tick. Mark Durieux's is a professor in Calgary where he teaches and speaks about the sociology of compassion and social entrepreneurship. Durieux explores ...
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Marcello Di Cintio - In the Shadow of the Wall
July 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Marcello Di Cintio is fascinated by the walls that societies erect despite a borderless world. In this talk, he inspiring shares stories of people who breakdown and transform walls thereby defeating them. Di Cintio has microbiology and English degrees from the University of Calgary, where he wa...
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Frank Robinson - Everything You Wanted to Know About Chickens
July 28, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)In this startling and enlightening talk, Dr. Frank Robinson reveals everything you wanted to know about chickens but didn't know who to ask. Frank Robinson worked to establish the U of A's Poultry Research Centre as a leading research institution in North America and around the world. A past wi...
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- -: TEDxCalgary - Janice Tanton Iniskimaki - The Language of the Creator
July 29, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Janice Tanton speaks from the soul of an artist, mom, and full time human being. In this heartfelt talk, she shares her exploration of the creative spirit through her native heritage and the many people she has brought together through art and music. Painter, actor, musician, filmmaker and graph...
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