TED2009: Virgin is 25 too!
February 7, 2009
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TED2009: Lena Maria Klingvall a true inspiration
February 7, 2009Lena Maria Klingvall was born without arms & 1 leg. She is a true inspiration. Her personality and approach to life truely is amazing. She is a painter, writer, singer & gold-medal athlete. She is also a manga cartoon hero and can do calligraphy with her feet and her mouth. Absolutely Wonderful. Most importantly she is an elegant lady and should be an inspiration to all of us.
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TED2009: Break Up Service!!!
February 7, 2009
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TED2009: Aerialist Ueli Gegenschatz is CRAAAAZZZZY
February 7, 2009- Started off in Skydiving
- Freeflying was his next move
- Then Skysurfing
- Wingsuit flying fixed the next urge
- All the skills etc then he went to B.A.S.E jumping
- Now he is looking for new faces to B.A.S.E. jump from
- Jumped Eiffel Tower
- Jumped from a Paraglider
- Stood on top of the balloon
- Jump from a moving truck off a bridge
- 2009 he wants to set a world record – Longest Distance every flown
- 2009 he wants to do a jump never done before.
Go to Gegenschatz
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TED2009: Rosamund Zander- Will we ever grow up?
February 6, 2009I say never!!!!
but
Rosamund Zander presents today on our multiple and disparate inner voices & our process of “growing up”
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TED2009: David Merrill – Siftables The Super Block!!!!
February 6, 2009David Merrill, says our first understanding of spatial reasoning came from playing with blocks as kids and he then showed his cool interactive blocks that are the size of a cookie, which can move around each other & sense motion.
- Pour Colors
- Add Numbers
- Show recognition faces turn
- Build Words
- Manipulate sound
Children can build stories and create their own narrative.
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TED2009: Evan Williams – Twitter CEO Tweets
February 6, 2009- You must follow hunches even though you can’t justify it.
- LA times turned to twitter to dispense information.
- The @name was built by the users and not the company
- programers can writte softare and there are 2k versions of softaare can do this.
- Plants can twitter
- unborn can twitter
- Summize is a twitter search engine
- #name is now ways people are searching for products
- Never Assume where it will go
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TED2009: Zero – Turn off your power every Sunday
February 6, 2009
Natasha Tsakos asks you to turn off your power every sunday between 7:53pm and 8:00pm
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TED2009: – Thelma Golden – Love of Art
February 6, 2009Thelma Golden opens the Discovery session with her story of how she discovered art.
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TED2009: Daniel Kraft, MD – “MarrowMiner”
February 5, 2009Unreal new method to mine bone marrow in a less evasive manner. Absolutely unbelievable. It bypasses transplant pain by allowing local anaeshtesia & harvest 10x more marrow.
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