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Jamil Abu-Wardeh jump-started the comedy scene in the Arab world by creating the Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour, which brought Middle Eastern standup comedians from the West to delighted audiences all over the Arab region. He’s found that, by respecting the “three B’s” (blue material, beliefs and “bolitics”), the Axis of Evil [...]
Alwar balasubramaniam: art of substance and absence
In: TED Talks
8 Sep 2010Alwar Balasubramaniam’s sculpture plays with time, shape, shadow, perspective four tricky sensations that can reveal — or conceal — what’s really out there. At TEDIndia, the artist shows slides of his extraordinary installations.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and [...]
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Sugata mitra’s new experiments in self-teaching
In: TED Talks
7 Sep 2010Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how [...]
Rachel sussman: the world’s oldest living things
In: TED Talks
3 Sep 2010Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world’s oldest continuously living organisms — from 2000-year-old brain coral off Tobago’s coast to an “underground forest” in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading [...]
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- Tags: Biology, Living, Oldest, Organism, Photographs, Photography, Photos, Rachel, Sussman, Talks, TED, TEDTalks, Things, Worlds
Derek sivers: keep your goals to yourself
In: TED Talks
2 Sep 2010After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone — but Derek Sivers says it’s better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.TEDTalks is a [...]
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Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and [...]
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- Tags: Boundaries, Development, Earth, Ecosystem, Environment, Johan, Planetary, Pollution, Resources, Rockstrom, Science, Talks, TED, TEDTalks
His holiness the karmapa: the technology of the heart
In: TED Talks
1 Sep 2010His Holiness the Karmapa talks about how he was discovered to be the reincarnation of a revered figure in Tibetan Buddhism. In telling his story, he urges us to work on not just technology and design, but the technology and design of the heart. He is translated onstage by Tyler Dewar.TEDTalks is a daily [...]
Nic marks: the happy planet index
In: TED Talks
30 Aug 2010Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation’s success by its productivity — instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn’t have to cost the earth). Which countries rank highest in the HPI? [...]
Dan cobley: what physics taught me about marketing
In: TED Talks
27 Aug 2010Physics and marketing don’t seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton’s second law, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of thermodynamics to explain the fundamental theories of branding.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best [...]
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Lisa margonelli: the political chemistry of oil
In: TED Talks
26 Aug 2010In the Gulf oil spill’s aftermath, Lisa Margonelli says drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract from the issue at its heart our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her bold plan to wean America off of oil — by confronting consumers with its real cost.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast [...]
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