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TEDxSUMMIT - Doha, Qatar
A primer on 3D printing from Lisa Harouni. Then, 7 platforms that bring collaborative creation and the open-source ethos to additive manufacturing.
Sick TED talk.
Hans Rosling - The good news of the decade?
Hans Rosling, the innovative statistician, re-frames 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing- mostly unreported- piece of front page worthy good news: We’re winning the war against child mortality.
Brian Skerry: Revealing The Ocean’s Glory, and Horror
Photographer Brian Skerry shoots life above and below the waves — as he puts it, both the horror and the magic of the ocean. Sharing amazing, intimate shots of undersea creatures, he shows how powerful images can help make change.
V.S. Ramachandran: On Your Mind
This is one of my favorite TED videos of all time. It is inspiring, informative, still cutting-edge. It blows my mind every time I watch it. If you haven’t seen it yet, you really should.
Jamie Oliver: Teach Every Child About Food
A really great presentation. I really gained a lot more respect for Jamie Oliver while I watched him speak.
Bring on the learning revolution!
Another brilliant presentation by the education expert who claims that schools are destroying creativity. Four years after his first appearance on TED, he delivers a poignant call to arms to radically change our education system.
Schools Kill Creativity
A simply amazing presentation. Highly recommended.
The Thrilling Potential of SixthSense Tehcnology
This TED talk is simply mind-boggling. Trust me, watch the whole thing.
At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
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Cancer Doctor David Augus explains how cancer treatments have had a short-sighted focus on the offending individual cells. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling and protein analysis to treat and analyze the whole body.
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A brilliant TED talk by the creator of a comic book series inspired by Islamic teachings. Its well worth the watch, if for nothing else than to understand how muslims look at their own religion.
How do you stop population growth? Doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling suggests that the only way to do it is by improving child survival rates amongst the poorest of the world. Only then can we realistically aim at curbing population growth levels which currently set us on a path to hit 9 billion people in 2050.
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