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Less than 5 minutes ago: The invention will benefit part customers and manufactors. It's combined with projector, recognition devices, and better software design. We needn't the keyboard and monitor. However, I suspect the invention can increase more effienciency and suitable for long-term use. The resolution of the projector, high power consumption, and prices will be the problem. I prefer to use LED Touch screen. We could see the commocial projector will intergrate more smart functions like this in the future.

10 minutes ago: This is FAKE. How could possibly a Mobile CPU recognize the face of a stranger, without a database, and even more... Where do it get the name of the stranger? I mean, I don't have my real name in Google. Even more, I don't have a picture of me in Google. This is a lie.

10 minutes ago: You've both got a point. While its true that the application of any law, Talmudic or otherwise, to a particular circumstance requires some degree of what we might call 'interpretation' or well-managed reasoning, it is nevertheless Schwartz' point that the bureaucratic ills of modern society cannot be remedied by an endless propagation of both laws and the interpretation of laws such as the Talmudic model of civic action facilitates. What is needed, Schwartz seems to argue, is a virtue ethics model--a Platonic model based upon the cultivation, recognition and celebration of virtuous civic action, action done for its own sake and not for the sake of the action's compliance with any man-made law. If this Feuerstein guy acts for the sake of the Talmud, he is not an exemplar of this virtue ethics model, good as his actions may be. As for the pink t-shirt, I think he looks hideous, like he just finished beating his flat feet around an urban block and forgot to change out of his sweats.

20 minutes ago: I think that Mr. Berners-Lee's exciting speech anticipates future trends. And when I say 'future', I mean very near future and not the long-term perspective. However, this 'Raw-Data' idea raises many questions.

First, creating unlimited access to data worldwide means that Intra-nets (supported by government agencies, companies and individuals) have to be merged into the Internet extensively. This will require to overcome desire to hold control, corporate greed and security concerns. Will a multinational company want competitors to gain access to its customer base? Will CIA permit anyone to view security-related data?

Secondly, this model of data exchange stipulates that current copyright model should be revised and changed to facilitate the information flow. As we have seen lately, information flow in the Internet breaks clashes with the strict limitations imposed by 20th century legal norms. Unless this limitation is removed, 'monopoly' for data will still be there.

30 minutes ago: Beautiful! Bravo to Jose Abreu and El Sistema.

30 minutes ago: I am starting to feel that with every breakthrough (or breakdown) in communication technology, our social connections, although admitedly more frequent, are becoming less visceral. Thank you for sharing your story, Lakshmi

35 minutes ago: Short and sweet but it misses one crucial point: We lead more sedentary lifestyles now a days. So most humans do not require the same levels of energy as we used to a hundred years ago when most of us were out there in the fields farming. However, our diet has remained the same (and in some cases gone worse).

45 minutes ago: I am thinking about this in an industrial safety environment. think about working with dangerous materials and have the projector inform you about the safety information of such materials in real time. O repair a machine and be able to scan the schematics with it .Totally useful.

2 hours ago: Companies should harness Web 2.0 communication technologies instead of trying to block them, especially if they are doing business internationally. I will give a couple of examples to prove the point.
It is sometimes easier to find the "right" person to employ or work with if you make a little research first by checking out a profile in a social network like LinkedIn.
If you deal with people from Turkey or India, Skype can help you a lot - businessmen there use it very often in their job.

3 hours ago: Excellent talk but Americans pushing it? Where do we put the English?

4 hours ago: "Mainstream news organizations have begun reporting on scientific research that suggests that global warming may not be caused by man and may not be as dire and eminent as alarmists suggest.....the BBC's climate correspondent Paul Hudson reported, the warmest year recorded globally "was not in 2008 or 2007, but 1998." It's true, he continued, "For the last 11 years, we have not observed any increase in global temperatures." (BBC News on Oct. 9)
Of course we need to conserve energy etc. but that was always the case. This scare is a scam by governments to gain more power over their people.

Check out ( http://www.olivetreeviews.org/radio/mp3/ ). Go to the 1st. hour of Oct. 24th. If you dont want the whole hour then home in on Lord Christopher Monckton about 15-20mins in. He only speaks for 4mins., but it's well worth listening.

4 hours ago: Normal? What is normal? There are a lot more than 1-2 % of children being labled with some learning issue in the US. And there are a lot more than 1-2% of children on drugs to keep them in "normal" classroom settings.

So now, not only should we over-emphasize science and math based on your biasis but we shouldn't bother about those that do not fit into your definition of "normal'?

Why do you insist that teaching creativity has to come at the expense of teaching science and math? Geometry is a great example that could incorporate both.

Maybe some more creative thinking on your part would help you to discover that you can do both and do both equally and not one at the expense of the other.

4 hours ago: i would agree with Christiana Commuins, i see amy's presentation as self promoting than on behalf of the world of disabled people physically or non physical. I am speaking as one physically challenged who is living with the previlleges of friends and family who do not judge me by what i am but the content of my character. it is an impressive presentation which does not talk about the challenges of those who do not even have access to good or competent prothetist who take their time to build comfortable legs. when you are under the light, you have all the best attending to you so Amy, sorry, but still not addressing the core issues of amputees.

4 hours ago: You also accuse others of being extreeme in their position. All I see is that Ken and other responders are saying that creativity should be taught equally. You are the one who keeps interpreting that as teaching children the full bredth of human knowledge, you are the one that is generalizing to make a point.

The point is that creativity is what takes knowledge to a new level. Have you seen a primary school here? Standardized tests show that kids from better socio-economic school districts do better at test taking. Test taking is a skill to regergitate short term knowledge not an indicator of understanding or the ability to apply knowledge gained through study.

I want my child to learn the value of creativity, critical thinking, and a love of learning. At 18 he can go on to be anything that he wants and can make his own choices with understanding of the options and consequences of his choices.

Why are you so completed to argue with everyone? So compeled to be right?

5 hours ago: I don't know - Mike's got a point. It's not clear what the point of showcasing her talent is. If it's to showcase what someone can achieve by age 14, then fair enough, this is amazing. But as the cutting edge of improvisation? Hardly - check out Chucho Valdes, if you want to see that. TED may have presented her show a little misleadingly (it's an extraordinary improvisation for a 14 year old - but not extraordinary full stop...)

5 hours ago: You said that you are a grad student and that English is not your native language. Given those statements, I would venture a guess that you did not receive your primary education in this country...and even if you did it was quite a number of years ago.

I don't know what state you are in but I am in California. I was born and raised here. I lived through the degredation of our primary education with implementation of Prop 13. I watched the arts be taken away. I turned out OK in the end but then I was fortunate enough to live in a very creative household.

I cannot tell what all your biases are. However, one seems to be that you think that people have a responsiblitiy to study and take jobs in fields that are math and science based if they display any tallent. Why? Why do you feel that is a moral obligation? It may be for you but why do you want to impose your values on all parents of school aged children?

6 hours ago: Please contact me I am dealing with my mom's second stroke right lobe totally understand what you say!! But need help!!

6 hours ago: This story will further motivate me. Knowing that you have people out there that have the same mission as you is definitely something of value. Very moving indeed. I'd like to know how one can join the organization to provide services.

7 hours ago: "Dennett calls this kind of language a 'deepity': a statement that has two meanings, one of which is true but superficial, the other which sounds profound but is meaningless."

7 hours ago: I don't know that he would have. A charter? It's such a weak gesture. It's a good tactic to point out the universality of core religious tenets to deeply religious people, but that seems a little dishonest to me. She's still allowing them to suppose that morality comes from religion. Her whole spiel seems awfully wishy-washy to me