- -: TEDxLosGatos - Rudy Rucker - Transreal in Los Gatos
December 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Rudy Rucker, Ph.D., Mathematician, Computer Scientist, Science Fiction Author, Artist, and Philosopher Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician, and a computer scientist with thirty-two published books. In the 1980s he received Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels Software and W...
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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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- -: TEDxPresidio - Chip Conley - Superhuman or Super Human?
April 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)No hotel executive in the world has overseen the development and creation of more boutique hotels than Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre, California's largest independent hotel company and America's second largest boutique hotelier. At the age of 26 with no industry experience, Chip t...
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- -: TEDxBinghamtonUniversity - Eric Dietrich - The Trouble with Philosophy
April 13, 2011 (about 13 years ago)# Eric Dietrich Professor Dietrich's work has been published many times, whether it be on his focus of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, metaphysics, or philosophy of mind. Teaching at Binghamton University for over twenty years, Professor Dietrich has moved beyond his basis in philosop...
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- -: TEDxCapeTown-Anthony Turton-Reinventing Uncivilisation
May 3, 2011 (about 13 years ago)In the current world view, nature is seen to be chaotic and destructive. Descartes spoke of being the master and owner of Nature. To him, Nature was a problem - something to be "owned" and "tamed". Tony asks us to reinvent uncivilization, not as a mutant of the current barbaric form of what we ca...
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- -: TEDxUWI-Learie Joseph-A Comedian not a Joke
May 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Trinidad and Tobago comedian Learie Joseph shares the journey of life and comically illustrates how perseverance can help to overcome boundaries. TEDxUWI 'Beyond Your Limits' TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as an annual conference devoted to Technology, Enter...
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- -: TEDxUWI-Amilcar Sanatan-You Can't Handle the Truth
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Amilcar Sanatan speaks on the issue of youth and culture within Trinidad and Tobago. How the truth and acceptance of oneself affects how we live. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as an annual conference devoted to Technology, Entertainment and Design -- hence...
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- -: TEDxMonterey - Beryl Levinger - Questioning: A Subversive Act
May 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Beryl Levinger is the program chair and Distinguished professor of the Public Administration Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Her academic focus is on the management of complex organizations, particularly those engaged in transformation and her areas of academic experti...
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- -: TEDxUWI-Omar Mohammed- Climate Change, Nexus of Innovation
May 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Omar describes how the Caribbean can use the challenge of Climate Change to further innovation.
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