- -: Bill Nye: How to Talk to an Alien
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)~~~~~~~~~~~ http://bigthink.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~ What would you say to an alien? Big Think turned to Bill Nye, aka, 'The Science Guy,' who heads The Planetary Society, an organization that fosters ways for the public to be actively involved in space exploration, including the search for extraterr...
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- -: TEDxASB - Safeena Husain - Rejuvenating Government Schools
March 4, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Safeena has been committed to girls' education in India since 2002. She has worked extensively with rural and urban underserved communities in South America, Africa and Asia. From 1997 to 2004, she was the Chief Executive Director for Child Family Health International in San Francisco, managing a...
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- -: President Obama Speaks at National Governors Association Meeting
February 27, 2012 (about 12 years ago)President Obama addresses governors at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association, and calls on leaders to invest more in education and make sure all students get the education they need to compete for the jobs of tomorrow as well as the jobs of today. February 27, 2012.
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- -: TEDxUNC - John McGowan - Creativity
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)UNC's Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Director of UNC's Institute for Arts and Humanities talks about creativity. 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. ...
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- -: TEDxUNC - Kate Otto - Everyday Ambassadorship
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)he public health consultant and HIV/AIDS activist talks about her role as an "Everyday Ambassador" and attempts to create social change. 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 ...
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- -: TEDxUNC - Shamila Kohestani - How Sports Impact the Lives of Women
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The captain of the first women's Afghan national soccer team and recipient of the 2006 Arthur Ashe Courage Award talks about growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan and the challenges facing women and girls in that environment. Kohestani discusses how playing soccer gave her confidence and co...
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- -: TEDxPioneerValley - Ginetta Candelario - Teaching and Learning (In)Justice
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Ginetta Candelario, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latina/o at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, describes her talk this way: "Over half a century ago, U.S. Sociologist C. Wright Mills coined the term "sociological imagination" to capture a core precept of Sociolog...
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- -: TEDxUWI C.R.I.M.E-Dianne Williams- Vigilantism or Social Justice
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The Theme: Cultural Reality Imitated in a Mutual Environment Recently in Trinidad and Tobago, a constitutional State of Emergency has been declared to address the crime situation. The TEDxUWI team recognized that relevance is a vital factor and hence decided to focus on crime. Crime will be view...
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- -: TEDxPioneerValley - Barry O'Connell - Unschooled Learning
February 23, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Barry O'Connell, James E. Ostendarp Professor of English, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, examines "Unschooled Learning". "We learn in school, or, at least we are expected to. But I wonder about the places and the people outside formal schools. Learning in unschooled settings and from th...
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- -: TEDxOU - Ghislain d'Humières - An Intergenerational Forum of Wisdom
February 23, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Fulfilling the roles of military officer in France, International Decorative Art Specialist in New York and Los Angeles, Director of Jewelry for Christie's in Los Angeles, South America and Geneva, humanitarian in Guatemala and Director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, d'Humieres has fostered...
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