TEDxVancouver - Jer Thorp - The Weight of Data
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Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, The New Yorker, and the CBC. Thorp's ... Read more
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- -: TEDxVancouver - Jer Thorp - The Weight of Data
March 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientifi...
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- -: Jack Horner: Shape-shifting dinosaurs
February 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Where are the baby dinosaurs? In a spellbinding talk from TEDxVancouver paleontologist Jack Horner describes how slicing open fossil skulls revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances...
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- -: TEDxVancouver - Victor Lucas - The 3D Rules
January 24, 2012 (over 12 years ago)In this remarkably touching talk Victor Lucas gives a touching talk about the 3D rules, and they're not quite what you might think. Creator, executive producer and co-host of "The Electric Playground" Victor Lucas is an Emmy-winning videogame television pioneer and a highly respected television ...
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- -: TEDxVancouver - Nazanin Afshin-Jam - Voice for the Voiceless
April 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)For as long as she can remember, Nazanin Afshin-Jam has had people tell her what she couldn't do, and then she did it anyway. Sharing the story of a personal mission to save a teenage girl from death row in Iran, she demonstrates that the power of the individual is stronger than we are commonly ...
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- -: TEDxVancouver - Yael Cohen - Using the F-word to battle
April 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Yael Cohen runs a cancer charity that she founded in 2009 when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Astounded to learn that over 90% of cancers are curable in stage one, Cohen realized that early detection is our only cure right now and that we should be looking for cancer instead of just findin...
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- -: TEDxVancouver - Nardwuar - Do It Yourself!
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Punk Rock Journalist Nardwuar the Human Serviette wants to take you on a journey into his do-it-yourself world of investigation and adventure. Through hard work, meticulous preparation and a tremendous passion for finding out interesting facts and tidbits, he sets the stage for unexpected situati...
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- -: TEDxVancouver - Greg Power - The Power of Story
April 13, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Greg Power is President and General Manager of the Canadian operations of world leading public relations agency Weber Shandwick. Throughout his 30 year career in communications, Greg has been fascinated by the challenge of building the bridge between a message and an audience. He has been a journ...
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- -: TEDxVancouver - Jack Horner - The Shape-Shifting Skulls of Dinosaurs
April 13, 2011 (about 13 years ago)"The Shape-Shifting Skulls of Dinosaurs" will focus on our latest discoveries concerning how dinosaur skulls changed as they grew to adult hood, and why it is that some dinosaur species are actually juvenile growth stages of other species. I will illustrate how it is that scientists got it wrong ...
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- -: TEDxVancouver - Nicholas Molnar - Hey Internet! Grow Up and Make Us Better
April 25, 2011 (about 13 years ago)We all know that the values of our community shape the way we look at the world. We all accept that the rules of the road affect how we drive. Or that the laws in our country dictate how we should act. When these values and rules change, we pay attention, because we want to make sure that the cha...
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- -: TEDxVancouver - Jeet Kei Leung - Transformational Festivals
August 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)At TEDxVancouver 2010 Jeet Kei Leung takes the crowd on a journey through the world and experiences of transformational festivals! 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,...
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