Naomi Klein: Addicted To Risk

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Looking at photos from the November spill, so eerily similar to the photos from BP’s April 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s clear we are still looking for energy in risky places, and largely unprepared to deal with the consequences of failure. One year after the BP spill (which workers soaked up, in large part, with straw bales), the X Prize Foundation announced winners of a million-dollar incentive to develop new tools to clean up oil spills: And many others are looking at this problem too, including one of TED’s Senior Fellows, Cesar Harada. Harada is an inventor — of a staggering number of kinds of things. One of them is the Open_Sailing project, a group of inventors and scientists building open-source hardware and software to explore and study the ocean.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/naomi-klein-risk_n_1136389.html?utm_hp_ref=tedtalks2011

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Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

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Power. It’s that intangible thing that so many people strive for. For some people, feeling a sense of control — over themselves, others, situations or all of the above — is a natural thing. For others, it doesn’t come as easy.

In her TEDTalk (above), social psychologist Amy Cuddy shares an easy way that anyone can change not only others’ perceptions of them, but the way they feel about themselves — spending two minutes “power posing” with their arms or elbows out, their chin lifted and their posture expansive. Cuddy’s research, done in collaboration with Dana Carney, has shown that adopting the body language associated with dominance for just 120 seconds is enough to create a 20 percent increase in testosterone and a 25 percent decrease in the stress hormone cortisol. In other words, adopting these postures makes a person feel more powerful.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-cuddy/body-language_b_2451277.html

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Does Our Planet Need a Stroke of Insight?

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Before 2008, everything I did had something to do with mental health. I’m a neuroscientist, and I was all about understanding how we create our perception of reality, and understanding what’s going on in the brains of people who experience hallucination and delusion.

But then I gave a TEDTalk about my own experience with stroke. Within weeks of delivering that talk in 2008, my life changed and the repercussions still resonate loudly in my world. My book, My Stroke of Insight, has been translated into 30 languages. Time and Oprah’s Soul Series came calling.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jill-bolte-taylor/neuroscience_b_2404554.html?ir=TED+Weekends&ref=topbar

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Do Schools Kill Creativity?

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I’ve spoken twice at TED. The first time was in 2006. TED was a very different event then. It was a private conference for about 1,200 people. After the event, the talks were packaged in a box set of DVDs and sent just to the attendees. I gave a talk called “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” A few months later, Chris Anderson, the curator of TED, called to say they were planning to put a few talks on their website as an experiment and asked if they could include mine. The timing was perfect. Social media was beginning to take shape and the insatiable appetite for YouTube and short videos was about to emerge.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sir-ken-robinson/do-schools-kill-creativity_b_2252942.html

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Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape Our World

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Watch game developer Kevin Slavin’s TEDTalk above and then explore his thoughts in this companion essay.

Back at TEDGlobal, the most difficult aspect of preparation was the editing process, chipping away at three hours of material to cut it down into 14 live minutes.

Of all the darlings that were killed, the ones I missed most were a few minutes about genetic algorithms. Like everything I presented, it’s a subject for which I have interest and passion, not training or expertise. It’s going to seem very dull. But stay with me for a few of the missing minutes.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/kevin-slavin-how-algorith_n_1120684.html

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Eli Pariser: Beware Online ‘Filter Bubbles’

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Watch author Eli Pariser discuss secret censorship on the Internet, and read is accompanying blog post below following up on his talk.

People love sharing lists — the list is one of the formats that fare well in a Filter Bubble world. So here’s a list of five of the most interesting ideas I’ve come across since I gave my presentation at TED and published The Filter Bubble: What The Internet is Hiding from You.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/internet-censorship_n_1147078.html?1323877374

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Anthony Atala: Printing A Human Kidney

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To many people, the idea of growing replacement body parts in the lab sounds like modern-day science fiction. People are often surprised to learn that this notion of harnessing the body’s natural regenerative powers isn’t new. In fact, aviator Charles Lindbergh did research in this area back in the 1930s in hopes of finding a solution for his ailing sister-in-law. The idea has endured because of the desperate need for replacement organs. Every 30 seconds, a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with organ or tissue replacement.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/printing-organs_n_1160307.html?utm_hp_ref=tedtalks2011

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Rick Smolan tells the story of a girl

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Photographer Rick Smolan tells the unforgettable story of a young Amerasian girl, a fateful photograph, and an adoption saga with a twist.

Rick Smolan is the co-founder of the America 24/7 and Day in the Life photography series — and a natural storyteller in many media. His latest books are America at Home and Blue Planet Run.

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http://www.ted.com/talks/rick_smolan_tells_the_story_of_a_girl.html

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John Hunter: World Peace Game

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Watch John Hunter discuss the World Peace Game and what adults can learn from children in approaching today’s most intractable problems.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/world-peace-game_n_1169863.html?1324915273

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Mini quadrotors play Bond, James Bond (video) By Brian Heater posted Feb 29th 2012 6:01PM

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You must check this out. I would love to own a few guadrotors.

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This week’s Ted2012 conference isn’t all talk — sometimes the videos features speak for themselves.

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http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/29/mini-quadrotors-play-bond-james-bond-video/?icid=maing-grid7|myaol|daily-buzz1|sec2_lnk1|139997

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