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Documenting Life- One Second at a Time

Wednesday 02.06.2013 , Posted by

Cesar Kuriyama

Do you ever look back at photos from a trip and wonder why you took so many? Did you really enjoy everything as much as you could have if you weren’t trying to document it all? Do you look at the times in between travel and events and realize you barely have any photos and can hardly remember what you’ve done. In this inspirational TED talk, director Cesar Kuriyama, who documented his 30th year one second each day, and received viral attention, shares why he started this project and why he hopes to continue it for as long as he lives. [Read more...]

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TED-Ed: Bringing Hundreds of Classrooms Home

Monday 03.12.2012 , Posted by

Teachers are an amazing resource to all of us, helping us to understand everything from mathematics to the mysteries of the universe. But while some are lucky enough to have wonderful, educated teachers in their life, the actual reach of those individual teachers is quite small… much of the time only as big as a classroom. How can this small influence be broadened? How can we make these incredible lessons more accessible to all? Enter the newest chapter in the TED saga: TED-Ed. [Read more...]

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Defend Our Freedom to Share (why SOPA is a bad idea)

Wednesday 01.18.2012 , Posted by

If you are a regular reader of Visual News, you may have noticed that today we participated in what is turning out to be the largest ever internet blackout in history… a protest symbolically showing what the internet could look like if the proposed PIPA or SOPA bills pass in the US Congress. The massive voluntary shutdown garnered attention just about everywhere and was participated in by behemoth sites the likes of Craigslist, Reddit and Wikipedia. So what does PIPA and SOPA mean for our shareable internet world, and why should you sign this online letter to congress? Below, Clay Shirky delivers a brilliant talk at the TED offices, challenging us to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share in the digital world. [Read more...]

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Real or Computer Generated? You Be the Judge

Thursday 12.01.2011 , Posted by

With the advent of modern day computer animation tech, it has become harder and harder to tell the difference between real and make believe.  On the converse, in some cases real images seem to look fake because of the amazing clarity we can achieve. Louie Schwartzberg is an award winning cinematographer that has been pushing the limits of cameras and video for the last 30 years.  Using time-lapse, super slow motion and a slew of other techniques, he achieves some of the most incredible images caught on film: images that blur the line between reality and the digital world. [Read more...]

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Balloons of Bhutan: Stories of a Nations Happiness

Wednesday 11.02.2011 , Posted by

The country of Bhutan has a unique interpretation of what makes their nation a success: instead of focusing on the countries Gross National Product, a concept mostly unrelated to a populations well being, since 1972 they have officially focused on “Gross National Happiness.” Now renowned traveling story collector Jonathan Harris has put together an inspiring website of his 2007 project Balloons of Bhutan. Harris traveled the Himalayan kingdom giving out balloons and capturing a storied portrait of the nations happiness [Read more...]

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How Language Transformed Humanity

Thursday 08.04.2011 , Posted by

In this captivating TED talk, biologist Mark Pagel expounds on his very intriguing theory of how and why the human species developed such a complex system of language, furthering and setting us apart from the other inhabitants of the planet. He then looks at the future of communication, asking why the worlds 7000-8000 languages came into existence and wonders at what will become of them in our ever more communicative and global world. [Read more...]

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Growing New Dinosaurs From Chickens

Tuesday 06.07.2011 , Posted by

Ever since he was a child, Jack Horner has been dreaming of two things: becoming a paleontologist and having a pet dinosaur. So far he’s accomplished one of those tasks and the other is the subject of this TED Talk.

Horner is fun and captivating in his account of the various experiments and discoveries along his rocky path toward creating one of the prehistoric behemoths. He then details the ways in which we are now studying chickens, distant relatives of dinosaurs, and what roll they will play in the process. [Read more...]

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Carlo Ratti: Sensing The Data We Create

Friday 05.06.2011 , Posted by

With the use of sensors and hand-held electronics, the real-time city is now a reality. Carlo Ratti is a civil engineer and architect who teaches at MIT in Cambridge, MA where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory. There, his team studies the data we create — phone calls made, garage thrown away — to generate stunning visualizations of city life. [Read more...]

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Chinese Artist Detained. Here is His TED Film.

Monday 04.04.2011 , Posted by

Last months TED conference featured a moving film about Chinese artist Ai Weiwei highlighting his treatment by the government, social change, the power of social media and Weiwei’s hopes for the future of China. Now he has been detained by authorities which has prompted concern from TED HQ and the global community. [Read more...]

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