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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: Sasa Vucinic (2005) |
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http://www.ted.com Sasa Vucinic, a former editor
for Belgrade radio station B92, founded the
Prague-based Media Development Loan Fund, which
applies venture-capital principles to finance
sustainable media companies in nations emerging
from repressive regimes. In this quietly
persuasive talk, Vucinic explores the power of a
free press to reinvigorate struggling democracies,
and proposes his vision - now realized - to sell
"free press bonds," publicly traded securities
that mobilize private investment to support
independent media in emerging democracies.
(Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration:
18:46)
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| 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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Durée : 1182 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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Affichage : 19046
Durée : 1325 s |
| 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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Durée : 1326 s |
| Explorer Wade Davis on our amazing "ethnosphere":TEDTalks |
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http://www.ted.com In this stunning talk, National
Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis
celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the
world's indigenous cultures, many of which are
disappearing, as ancestral land is lost and
languages die. (50 percent of the world's 6000
languages are no longer taught to children.)
Against a backdrop of extraordinary photos and
stories that ignite the imagination, Davis argues
that we should be concerned not only for
preserving the biosphere, but also the
"ethnosphere," which he describes as "the sum
total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas,
inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the
human imagination since the dawn of
consciousness." An anthropologist and botanist by
training, Davis has traveled the world, living
among indigenous cultures. He's written several
books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow and
Light at the Edge of the World. (Recorded February
2003 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 22:44)
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| TEDTalks: Ross Lovegrove (2005) |
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http://www.ted.com Ross Lovegrove is an
industrial designer, best known for his work on
the Sony Walkman and Apple iMac. In this highly
visual presentation, he presents his recent
work—from furniture to water bottles—which is
organic in form and inspired by nature. (Recorded
February 2005 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:14)
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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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