- -: TEDxBucharest - Dumitru Popescu
December 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dumitru is the founder of the Romanian Cosmonautics and Aeronautics Association. In 1998, together with a group of students, he created ARCA and soon, rockets as Demonstrator 2 and 2B were build.In 2003 ARCA joined the X Prize Competition and Dumitru represented the team to the major XPF events, ...
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- -: The Art of Nothing: Recreating a Black Hole
December 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/03/Remaking_the_Universe Christian Gonzenbach, artist-in-residence in the lab of Martin Pohl, discusses his attempt to represent the physical properties of black holes in art through the use of negative space. ----- While physicists attempt to understa...
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- -: TEDxNaperville - Richard Godwin - The Next Space Journey
December 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The first part of our journey into space is coming to a close. It provided technologies for those of us left on the ground. The next part of the journey is beginning, and it will take our human society to the planets and beyond. Richard has been a serial entrepreneur since the age of 16 when he ...
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- -: TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - Alexander Lazutkin - Earth: Our Only Home In The Universe
April 3, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Alexander Lazutkin is a Russian cosmonaut. His first spaceflight was Soyuz TM-25, on which he was the flight engineer. Lazutkin was aboard the Mir Space Station when the collision with the resupply vessel occurred. During a personal account of this event, he stated that it was clear that the air ...
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- -: TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - Oleg Shishkin - Coming Back From Heaven
April 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Writer, researcher and presenter Oleg Shishkin shares his feelings about perception of outer space as a person born in 60-s when all he was dreaming about were interstellar journeys. TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - "Cosmos" - took place on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 at Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in M...
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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 - 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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- -: TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - Peter Safronov - Space as retro-utopia
April 10, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Philosopher Peter Safronov considers Exploration Of Space as a topic which transformed significantly since 60's in XX century. Outer space from Safronov point of view was an inspiration, then an military outpost, a political arena and now became a part of consumer goods.
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- -: TEDxSanJoseCA - Jeff Greason - Rocket Scientist: Making Space Pay and Having Fun Doing It
April 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)He's a Rocket Man! Jeff Greason has devoted his life's work to creating and managing innovative technical project teams at XCOR Aerospace, Rotary Rocket Company (RRC), and Intel Corporation. Time magazine named Jeff as one of their "Inventors of the Year" for his team's work on the EZ- Rocket i...
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- -: TEDxThessaloniki - Michael Zouloumidis - Farming, Entrepreneurship and Astronauts
May 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Michael Zouloumidis is a farmer and talks about spirulina and how a business idea with proper planning can be profitable. Michael Zouloumidis full bio: http://www.tedxthessaloniki.com/speaker/michael-zouloumidis About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spread...
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