TEDxMerseyside - Ashley Dale - The Future of Wings
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Ashley graduated in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Liverpool and is currently doing postgraduate research in composite and morphing wing technologies. He will walk through how nature and evolution are inspiring the next "greener" generation of aircraft wings. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-... Read more
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- -: TEDxMerseyside - Ashley Dale - The Future of Wings
February 11, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Ashley graduated in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Liverpool and is currently doing postgraduate research in composite and morphing wing technologies. He will walk through how nature and evolution are inspiring the next "greener" generation of aircraft wings. In the spirit of ideas ...
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- -: Graham Hawkes: Fly the seas on a submarine with wings
November 4, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Graham Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of planet Ocean (a.k.a. "Earth"). It's a deep blue world we landlubbers rarely see in 3D.
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- -: A robot that flies like a bird
July 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011. TEDTalks is a daily...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Maria van der Heijden - Creating jobs for 1 milion women
November 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Maria van der Heijden founded Women On Wings in 2007 because she wants to share her richness in life with many others. Not in the materialistic way of richness, but in the way of having freedom. Making her own choices, being aware of the endless opportunities of the universe. Very often, she real...
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- -: President Obama Honors Paul McCartney
June 3, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)The President hails Paul McCartney's contribution to popular music and song during a ceremony to present the singer with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize.
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Paul MacCready: Paul MacCready Flies on Solar Wings
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Paul MacCready talks of his career as a flight enthisiast and his realization of environmental degredation along his journey on being a flight engineer.
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Nathan Myhrvold: Could this Laser Zap Malaria?
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Nathan Myhrvold shows a laser that could probably be the answer to the malaria gripping some developing countries.
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