TEDxWaterloo - Abby Sunderland - Rogue Wave
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Abby Sunderland,17, is an experienced American sailor who attempted to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world in 2010. Sailing her specially outfitted 40-foot sloop, Wild Eyes, Abby, then 16 years old, departed Marina Del Ray, California on January 23, 2010. Eight days into the journey, her yacht experienced insurmountable dif... Read more
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Abby Sunderland - Rogue Wave
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Abby Sunderland,17, is an experienced American sailor who attempted to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world in 2010. Sailing her specially outfitted 40-foot sloop, Wild Eyes, Abby, then 16 years old, departed Marina Del Ray, California on January 23, 2010. Eight days into the...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Colin Ellard - Getting Lost
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Colin Ellard is an experimental psychologist at the University of Waterloo, the director of its Research Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments and an international expert in the psychology of navigation. The results of his research in the areas of animal behaviour, cognitive mapping, huma...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Edwin Outwater - Rebel Music
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)One of North American's most creative, dynamic, and engaging conductors, Edwin Outwater is Music Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada. His innovative programming has earned him international acclaim, in particular for his Intersections series. With a goal of reinventing ...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - JF Carrey - Everest: Dream, Adventure and Passion
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Ever since Jean-François Carrey was a young boy, he wanted to climb Mount Everest. On May 18th, 2006, at 24 years old, he became the youngest Canadian to have climbed to the Top of the World. JF's passion for the arctic, mountains and rivers extends back to his youth. As a young guide, JF led a...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Shawn Qu - Future of Solar Energy
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Shawn Qu follows the light -- actually he follows sunlight and turns it into electricity that powers homes and businesses around the world. As the chairman, president and CEO of Canadian Solar, Shawn is a leader in the fast growing solar energy market and putting Canada on the map for Canadian So...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Ben Grossman - Improvisational Experimental Music
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Ben Grossman is a busy musician: improviser, studio musician, composer, noisemaker and audio provocateur. He works in many fields, having played on over 80 CDs, soundtracks for film and television, sound design for theatre, installations, work designed for radio transmission, and live performance...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Roberta Bondar - The Challenge of Change
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)As the world's first neurologist in space, Dr. Roberta Bondar is globally recognized for her pioneering contribution to space medicine research. For more than a decade at NASA Dr. Bondar headed an international research team, continuing to find new connections between astronauts recovering from ...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Michael Nielsen - Open Science
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Michael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation. Together with Ike Chuang of MIT, he wrote the standard text in the field, a text which is now one of the twenty most highly cited physics books of all time. He is the author of more than fifty scientific papers, including invited cont...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Vincent John Vincent - Immersive Video Gesture Control
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Vincent John Vincent is the co-founder & creative force behind GestureTek Inc., the inventors, pioneers and world leaders for over 24 years in video gesture control computing devices. Along with Francis MacDougall they invented and patented "full body immersive virtual reality", in the late 1980s...
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- -: TEDxWaterloo - Shelley Ambrose - The Importance of Conversation
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Calgarian Shelley Ambrose is the Executive Director of The Walrus Foundation and Co-publisher of The Walrus. She worked as a reporter for the Globe and Mail and the Windsor Star before serving for more than a decade as a producer for CBC Radio's Morningside and later for The Pamela Wallin Show. ...
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