- -: TEDxNewy 2011 - Tim Silverwood - How did our lives become so plastic?
December 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In July 2011, Tim Silverwood sailed 5000km from Hawaii to Vancouver to research and document the accumulation of plastic in the infamous North Pacific Gyre, otherwise known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Tim, a keen surfer, developed a love affair with the ocean from a young age and has sinc...
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- -: TEDxNewy 2011 - Marcus Westbury - Cities as software
December 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Marcus Westbury was the founder of Renew Newcastle -- a not-for-profit company that has launched more than 70 new creative projects in more than 40 once empty buildings in the Newcastle CBD since 2009. Prior to starting Renew Newcastle Marcus was a founder of Newcastle's This Is Not Art festival ...
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- -: TEDxNewy 2011 - John Aitken - What is our reproductive fate?
December 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Laureate Professor Aitken's research career began with a PhD in reproductive biology from the University of Cambridge. Following post-doctoral positions at the Universities of Edinburgh and Bordeaux, he joined the World Health Organisation in Geneva, where he began a lifelong commitment to the st...
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- -: TEDxNewy 2011 - Ukastle Ukestra -- Australia's leading ukulele orchestra
December 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The Ukastle Ukestra is the contribution that the good citizens of Newcastle are making to the global community ukulele revolution. We are proof positive that learning an instrument, and singing and entertaining is not only the preserve of professionals, but is something that all should aspire to,...
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- -: TEDxNewy 2011 - Gerry Bobsien - The joy, terror and challenge of being a novice
December 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Gerry Bobsien is a writer, surfer and reluctant ballet mother. She has worked as an industrial blacksmith, curator, librarian and copywriter. In 2009, her first book for young adults Surf Ache was published by Walker Books Australia. Vinni Versus Bluebottle and Maddy is: Notorious will be releas...
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- -: TEDxNewy - David Lubans - Learning from Dora the Explorer: lessons for teenage girls...
December 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)TEDxNewy 2011 - David Lubans - Learning from Dora the Explorer: lessons for teenage girls and their parents. Associate Professor David Lubans is the Theme Leader for school-based research in the University of Newcastle's Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition. His research ...
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- -: TEDxNewy - Mark Jackson - Everybody deserves music...nope, scrub that...everyone should play music.
December 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mark Jackson has, at various times, been PhD student, childcare worker, geographer, university lecturer, mental health worker, and public transport activist. Through it all he has always been a musician and community focused kind of bloke. In late 2009 he created a job for himself as a 'community...
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- -: TEDxNewy 2011 - Jason van Genderen - How I threw away my camera and became a filmmaker.
December 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)When your introduction to puberty is selling pet rocks and wearing a back brace, you'd have to hope that the ability to think creatively comes naturally. For Jason, his life of creative problem solving was seeded by 20 years hard labor in the advertising & design industry... before turning his ha...
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- -: TEDxNewy 2011 - Peter Saul - Dying in 21st century Australia, a new experience for all of us.
December 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Peter Saul is Senior Intensivist in the adult and paediatric ICU at John Hunter Hospital, and Director of Intensive Care at Newcastle Private Hospital. Having trained in Cambridge, London, Sydney and Harvard, he came to Newcastle to help start up the new ICU at John Hunter, and never left. He has...
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- -: TEDxNewy 2011 - Sarita Koushik- Treatment for early stuttering with the Lidcombe Program
December 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Sarita Koushik is an international student from Canada. She recently completed her doctoral studies in Speech Pathology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has been specializing in stuttering treatment and research for the past 11 years with focus on early stuttering. Her particular a...
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