TEDxEutropolis - Frank & Patrik Riklin - The power of art outside the museum: Zero Star Hotel
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For Frank and Patrik Riklin, the best art is not recognizable as such. With their Swiss Atelier für Sonderaufgaben (Studio for special works), the two brothers create interventions in every day live, embedding the society as a part of them. "Art has to have a clear function" - "It should be placed in the middle of society, not in the museum! The... Read more
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- -: TEDxEutropolis - Frank & Patrik Riklin - The power of art outside the museum: Zero Star Hotel
February 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)For Frank and Patrik Riklin, the best art is not recognizable as such. With their Swiss Atelier für Sonderaufgaben (Studio for special works), the two brothers create interventions in every day live, embedding the society as a part of them. "Art has to have a clear function" - "It should be place...
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- -: Mitt Romney's taxes: Sen Carl Levin says no such thing as "ordinary" Swiss bank account
January 26, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast After calling on GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to release his tax returns from before 2010, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), speaking to reporters at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor, chided the former governor o...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Christofer Hierold - Are nanosensors the future's guardian angels?
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)As a research engineer you're always at the avant-garde of technological development. And depending on your imagination, estimates and success you'll drive scientific progress. As we're about to apply for the biggest EU-project yet, we're dreaming ten, fifteen years ahead: What will it be like wh...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Tobias Preis - Bubble Trouble
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)When a stock market rises unsustainably, it can create a financial bubble that sooner or later will burst. Dr. Tobias Preis explains whether concepts from physics can be used to create a law describing exactly how such crashes occur. Tobias Preis, Physicist & Complex Systems Scientist Dr. Tobias...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Matthias Daum - Sprawl Rocks
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)For nearly sixty years, Swiss intellectuals, urban planners and architects have been ranting and raving about the way the country's landscape is developing. But each society gets the landscape it deserves. So why has Switzerland been landed with urban sprawl? Because that is the way we want to li...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Molly Crockett - Drugs and morals
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Does your sense of fairness depend on what you ate for breakfast? Can Prozac influence your judgment of what is right or wrong? How can we encourage people to care about the welfare of others? Molly Crockett's research addresses these questions. She believes that understanding the brain can enabl...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Benedikt Germanier - Value driven living
October 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)As a strategist on Wall Street, I had to learn what it meant when people were purely money driven, thinking of nothing but how to make money. After the second year in Greenwich I got sick driving through the posh neighbourhood. When my boss called me up on the trading floor to offer me a pay rise...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Eleanor Dobson - Inside the belly of CERN
October 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The LHC project at CERN has hit the headlines in the last couple of years. Everything on the big detector projects such as ATLAS is of a colossal scale from the fundamental nature of the science being done through to the size of the collaborations themselves. But comparatively little is said abou...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Thomas Zweifel - Leading through Language
October 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)What is the difference between a good company and a great one? Language, argues Thomas Zweifel, an accomplished leadership coach. In his interactive talk, he will set out to prove to the TEDxZurich audience that communication is the most important leadership tool of all. Dr. Thomas D. Zweifel Dr...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Karin Stierlin - Play to break taboos
October 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A lot of global problems are being tabooed. Prejudice and incapacity are the bad consequences. How should young people get sensitized if there is a lack of interactive teaching aids? The internet as isolated information source doesn`t replace reflexion and exchange of a discussion forum. Karin St...
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