TEDxPhilly - Diana Lind - On dismantling urban highways in cities
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Diana Lind poses a challenge: let's re-imagine the future of urban transportation and tear-down highways that cut through our cities. Lind's talk discusses how forward-thinking cities have dismantled highway infrastructure ---- building vibrant public spaces in the face of car culture. In the case of the aging Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, Lind... Read more
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- -: TEDxPhilly - Diana Lind - On dismantling urban highways in cities
December 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Diana Lind poses a challenge: let's re-imagine the future of urban transportation and tear-down highways that cut through our cities. Lind's talk discusses how forward-thinking cities have dismantled highway infrastructure ---- building vibrant public spaces in the face of car culture. In the cas...
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- -: TEDxKarachi 2011 - Raja Sabri Khan - Building Drones in Pakistan
June 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Raja Sabri Khan speaks at TEDxKarachi 2011 on Building Drones in Pakistan TEDxKarachi 2011 : Making the Impossible Possible About the Speaker: Raja Sabri Khan is an Aerospace design engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). He has carried out groundbreaking research and...
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- -: Gary Lauder's new traffic sign: Take Turns
March 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of "Stop" and "Yield" -- and asks drivers to be polite. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car
March 31, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's amazing driverless car, powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic accidents. Jawdropping video shows the DARPA Challenge-winning car motoring through busy city traffic with no one behind the wheel, and dramatic test ...
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- -: Ronald Reagan-Remarks on the Air Traffic Controllers Strike (August 3, 1981)
July 28, 2010 (over 13 years ago)President Ronald Reagan speaks about the air traffic controllers strike. He states very clearly that if the striking union workers do not report to work in 48 hours, they will be fired from their jobs. The President then takes questions along with Attorney General William French Smith and Secreta...
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- -: David Batstone - Human Trafficking as Modern-Day Slavery
February 27, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=673 Author David Batstone discusses the phenomenon of human trafficking, arguing that it constitutes a form of modern-day slavery. ----- In his latest book, "Not For Sale," University of San Francisco ethics professor David Batstone helps...
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- -: Schwarzenegger: US Infrastructure "Like a Developing Country"
March 3, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/21/Infrastructure_Debate_Policy_Challenges_Facing_Nation California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger advocates for a high-speed rail system to modernize US infrastructure, which he considers to be on par with that of a developing country. He says, "Our tra...
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- -: Did Facebook and Twitter Miss Their Window for Profit?
September 3, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/05/Entrepreneurism_Begin_With_The_End_In_Mind_Jon_Fisher Entrepreneur Jon Fisher criticizes web 2.0 companies like Facebook and Twitter for taking too long to turn profitable. He says they are "poised to suck the oxygen out of the liquidity markets and h...
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- -: Crossing San Francisco Bay: A Bridge Is Born
December 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/04/Rick_Prelinger_Lost_Landscapes_of_San_Francisco_4 Archivist Rick Prelinger shows found film of San Francisco's Bay Bridge from various periods during its construction and shortly after its completion. Footage includes a trip across the bridge on the r...
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- -: Time Spent Viewing Ads: Online vs. Television
August 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/l2_video_celebrity comScore's video products manager Dan Piech identifies key differences in consumer reactions to online advertising opposed to television advertising. "Audiences are actually responding more positively to online advertising," explain...
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