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| TEDTalks: Aubrey de Grey (2005) |
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http://www.ted.com Aubrey de Grey, British
biogerontologist and founder of SENS,
controversially claims to have created a roadmap
to defeat biological aging. In this talk, he
argues that aging - like other diseases - can be
cured, and that humans can live for centuries, if
only we approach the aging process as "an
engineering problem." (Recorded July 2005 in
Oxford, UK. Duration: 23:31)
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Durée : 1411 s |
| TEDTalks: Larry Brilliant |
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http://www.ted.com TEDPrize winner Larry
Brilliant is an epidemiologist who presided over
the last case of SmallPox on the planet. He also
founded the Seva Foundation, which works to
reverse cases of blindness, and co-founded several
technology start-ups, including the legendary
online community, The Well. He was recently named
Executive Director of the Google Foundation. In
this talk, he explains in fascinating detail the
key behind the successful WHO campaign to
eradicate Smallpox, and then unveils his TEDPrize
wish: to build a global system that detects each
new disease or disaster as it emerges or occurs.
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Durée : 1595 s |
| TEDTalks: Jimmy Wales (2005) |
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http://www.ted.com Jimmy Wales is founder of
Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting,
ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive
encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation,
he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system
works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in
Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)
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| TEDTalks: Mena Trott (2006) |
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http://www.ted.com Mena Trott is the 28-year-old
founder of leading blog software company Six Apart
(Creators of Typepad, Movable Type, LiveJournal
and Vox). In this talk, she explores the personal
side of blogging. (Recorded February 2006 in
Monterey, CA. Duration: 17:30)
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Durée : 1051 s |
| TEDTalks: Al Gore (2006) |
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http://www.ted.com Al Gore, in his own words,
"used to be the next President of the United
States of America" but has since changed
professions. This talk is a follow-up to his
now-famous presentation, featured in the movie,
"An Inconvenient Truth." In it, he outlines what
we can do to avert a global climate crisis.
(Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
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Durée : 1017 s |
| TEDTalks: David Pogue (2006) |
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http://www.ted.com David Pogue is the personal
technology columnist for The New York Times, an
Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS
News, and one of the world's bestselling how-to
authors. In this unconventional talk, he offers a
sweeping (and unusual) view on the state of
software, partially set to music. (Recorded
February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
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Durée : 1325 s |
| TEDTalks: Ze Frank (2004) |
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http://www.ted.com Ze Frank rose to Internet fame
with his viral video How to Dance Properly, and
has been a purveyor of imaginative online comedy
ever since. His latest experiment, the show, is
posted daily at zefrank.com. In this performance,
drawn from the TED2004 archive, he offers the
signature blend of comedy, technology and social
theory that made him our favorite philosopher
comic. (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA.
Duration: 19:42)
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| How juries get fooled by statistics (TEDTalks) |
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http://www.ted.com Statistician Peter Donnelly
explores the common mistakes humans make in
interpreting statistics, and the devastating
impact these errors can have on the outcome of
criminal trials. Donnelly is a statistics
professor at Oxford University who collaborates
with biologists, applying statistical models to
genetics, with the hope of shedding more light on
evolutionary history and the structure of the
human genome (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK.
Duration: 22:06)
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| Burt Rutan: Houston, we have a problem! : TEDTalks |
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http://www.ted.com In this passionate talk,
legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts
the U.S government-funded space program for
stagnating ("Houston, we have a problem."), and
calls for space entrepreneurs to pick up where
NASA left off. Rutan won the $10M Ansari X-Prize
for SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded craft
to enter space twice in a 2-week period. He's now
collaborating with Virgin Galactic to build the
first rocket-ship designed for space
tourism.(Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.
Duration: 20:16) More TEDTalks at www.TED.com
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| TEDTalks: Sirena Huang (2006) |
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http://www.ted.com Sirena Huang started violin
lessons at four, and made her professional solo
debut at age nine, with the Taiwan Symphony
Orchestra. Now 11, she has won top prizes in
numerous international competitions, delighting
audiences worldwide with her virtuosity and
musical imagination. (Recorded February 2006 in
Monterey, CA. Duration: 25:25)
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