TEDxWinnipeg - Jim Blascovich - Digital Freedom: Virtual Reality, Avatars, and Multiple Identities
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Jim Blascovich, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara If Our Brains Can't Distinguish between the Virtual World and the Real World, How Do We Know What's Real? As a society we are continuing to spend more and more time in the virtual world but recent research has found that it's beginning to shape the way we think and the way we act... Read more
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Jim Blascovich - Digital Freedom: Virtual Reality, Avatars, and Multiple Identities
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jim Blascovich, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara If Our Brains Can't Distinguish between the Virtual World and the Real World, How Do We Know What's Real? As a society we are continuing to spend more and more time in the virtual world but recent research has found that it's begi...
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Wade Barnes - How Do We Feed a Growing World?
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Wade Barnes, CEO, Farmer's Edge How Do We Feed a Growing World? Our connection to the earth is changing. We need higher quality and a greater volume of food from the same amount of land. How do we make that happen? Farmers Edge is leader in precision agriculture, which is about placing the rig...
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Jim Kor - Rational Automotive Design for the Human Race - Urbee
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jim Kor, Senior Designer and Project Leader, Urbee How Do We Get a Person from Point A to Point B Using the Least Amount of Energy? *** Check out the unveiling of Urbee at http://youtu.be/07AQHelb1f8 and the recent test drive at http://youtu.be/FOh_m9pPvDo *** As we embark upon another centur...
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Megan Prydun - 80 Degrees of Separation: Giving New Immigrants a Fighting Chance
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Megan Prydun, Masters student in Development Practice at the University of Winnipeg As Winnipeg continues to develop and evolve, our relationships with our city continue to grow stronger. But the connection to this city for new immigrants is weak if we don't give them the opportunity to thrive....
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Shuvaloy Majumdar - Freedom: Connecting Citizens to State, Citizen and Idea
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Shuvaloy Majumdar, Visiting Foreign Policy Scholar, University of British Columbia Liu Institute for Global Issues Freedom: Connecting Citizens to State, Citizen and Idea I never thought there would be a time when a car bomb would sound as normal as sirens near a fire house. Or the scream of an...
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Donna Morton - The Gatherer's Economy: Women Re-Shaping the World
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Donna Morton, CEO and Co-Founder, First Power The Gatherer's Economy: Women Re-Shaping the World We live in a world, an economy that has been built and maintained principally by men. Stemming from insights from recent brain science, social innovation and personal experience, women's potential t...
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Meghan Athavale - How Can We Design a Better Way To Learn?
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Meghan Athavale - Entrepreneur, President of PO-MO Inc. How can we design a better way to learn? Kids learn best by doing, and access to information has increased so much that they are also amazing little content providers. My goal is to create tools that allow kids, educators and parents to bu...
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Khal Shariff - The Future of Learning, Let's Change Everything
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Khal Shariff - Entrepreneur, CEO Project Whitecarde How do we use computer game technology in traditionally non-game friendly industries? A new paradigm has been created for informing and personal enrichment, which is visually stunning and exceptionally compelling, and will benefit people from ...
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