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Learning. My family. The Alexander Technique.

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The Alexander Technique: The Mother of all Techniques. You can do many things without it, but you can do everything much better with it, plus live a more healthy, balanced and happy life.

My TED Story

one day a dear friend sent us Jill Bolti Taylor's Talk, Stroke of Insight, & i felt i just had to hebrew it. later' i contaced TED asking, "do u guys have any use for a hebrewed TEDTalk? they said, we just now started the open translation project... what can i say, thing happen right when they should. the rest is history & this happened over 100 hebrewed talks ago...

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• A reply on Conversation: What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?

  Feb 15 2011: hi hugo. mentioning john dewey, are u familiar with the alexander technique?
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  A comment on Conversation: What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?

  Feb 15 2011: ashamed to say that only recently i started No Logo (2000) by Naomi Klein. Before that i read hers The Shock Doctrine (2007). i guess u must've read them, but right now i can't think of any other books that are more important to our world & future.

• A comment on Talk: Joseph Pine: What consumers want

  Jan 30 2011: So basically this talk is another step in the ongoing endeavor to conquer the customer's heart, as if we're being thrown 20-30-40 years into the past and the notions of Environment, Ecology, Sustainability never came into being. Forget it. Let's just figure out more ways to sell, and better illustrate it as if this a natural, inevitable continutation of the past. Hoeever, for people who desire a realty check, see Naomi Klein's talk on http://www.ted.com/talks/naomi_klein_addicted_to_risk.html and other connected-to-the-real-world talks.
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  A comment on Talk: Stewart Brand on squatter cities

  Sep 9 2010: Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of the Disaster Capitalism is the book that explains very clearly everything that happened in the last 4-5 decades, from south america to Iraq and more, shedding new light on how is possible for people like Brand to see beauty in the miserable life of those who were driven off their forefathers land and traditional occupations into the un-human cities by the big players of globalization, with the generous aid of US government.
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  A comment on Talk: Stewart Brand on the Long Now

  May 29 2010: how low can one get? having done with the environment and out of praise to the growing urban population (see other talks by this man), or simply because of sheer boredom, he seeks to rob another nature asset and spend tons of $$$ on a stupid, useless, megalomanic idea that no one will be interesed in. what a useless man.
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  A comment on Talk: Stewart Brand on squatter cities

  May 29 2010: dangerous and scary. a white rich man speaking in a patronizing way to an audience of white rich people of the "they actually have aesthetics!" poor, deprived, forced to improvise their living from day to day masses of the world who were driven off their land and into the cities by the globalized and the rich of his kind. and he even has the nerve to suggest this all is a good thing both fot the planet and its humans.

• A comment on Talk: Stewart Brand: 4 environmental 'heresies'

  May 29 2010: standing on the shoulders of giants or just spitting into the well he used to drink from?.either way, using his resume as an "environmentalist" brand apprently chose for some reason to join the rich and exploiting of the plant.

• A comment on Talk: Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

  Oct 18 2008: I see a translation of the transcript to 2 languages. is any1 interested in a translation into hebrew? it ain't bad.