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Education, creativity, games, theatre, improvisation, forum theatre, simulation games, nonviolent communication, empathy

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Because computer interfaces are becoming more and more adapted to humans, the importance of having technical skills to be able to interact with or use a computer is becoming less and less. Which is one of the reasons I think social skills will become more and more important in the future. All kinds of theatre and drama-activities contribute a lot to these social skills, that's why they should be an integral part of all education.

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Open source ecology

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• TEDCred score: +12.30 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

• A reply on Conversation: Can I help you find a TEDTalk you remember watching?

  May 15 2012: yeah, of course, that's the one. I did also see that, but in my memory Amy and Aimee had merged into one person. :) Thanks Mary.
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  A reply on Conversation: Can I help you find a TEDTalk you remember watching?

  May 13 2012: that's funny, I do remember the shoes of any size, I directly thought of Aimee Mullins. Is it this one?: http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_on_running.html
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  A reply on Conversation: Can I help you find a TEDTalk you remember watching?

  May 12 2012: I expect that to be:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics.html
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  A comment on Talk: Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine

  Feb 3 2012: The design principles of this machine are a lot like the ones behind the designs of Marcin Jakubowski's Open Source Ecology http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/marcin_jakubowski.html . I guess open sourcing could be an interesting strategy for this machine too!
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  A comment on Conversation: I have an ethical question. Is it wrong to use placebos?

  Oct 21 2011: Actually you can be open about it being a placebo and it will probably still have the same effect. At least that's what I expect based on the study that showed exactly that: http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2010/12/22/meet-the-ethical-placebo-a-story-that-heals/

• A reply on Conversation: Post your top 5 N-grams here!

  Sep 22 2011: can you elaborate?
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  A reply on Conversation: Post your top 5 N-grams here!

  Sep 22 2011: Leaving out Madonna due to the divine intervention, it is fun to see how the pop-kings take over the classics-king. :)
  http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Elvis+Presley%2CMichael+Jackson%2CJohann+Sebastian+Bach&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=10
  (might the classics-king make a come-back in the coming decennia... Who knows...? What a cliffhanger! )
  
  In the mean time I keep wondering why Aristotle was ignored in the 18th century:
  http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Plato%2CSocrates%2CAristotle&year_start=1600&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=10
  
  And what created the common interest in Newton and Julius Ceasar in the early 19th century, and more curiously, why did the interest in Newton decline after the 1850's while Julius Ceasar in the same period actually gained in interest? http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Isaac+Newton%2C+Julius+Caesar&year_start=1600&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=10
  
  (This is a lot of fun!! :) )
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  A reply on Conversation: Post your top 5 N-grams here!

  Sep 22 2011: I definitely wouldn't have guessed that. :)
  
  And I like how Bach dwarfs the others: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=beethoven%2Cwagner%2Cmozart%2Cchopin%2C+bach&year_start=1600&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=10
  (might be related to the use of capitals and general occurrences of the surnames so I added first names here and left out Richard Wagner because I think it's a quite often used name in general: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Ludwig+van+Beethoven%2CWolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart%2CFr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin%2CJohann+Sebastian+Bach&year_start=1600&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=10
  this gives a whole different view!

• A reply on Talk: Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity

  Sep 22 2011: I'm confused, (and yes, maybe I should re-read; would love to do that). Does Diamond describe any geographic effects in recent times that influenced wealth build up?
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  A comment on Conversation: Post your top 5 N-grams here!

  Sep 21 2011: Punitive, Restorative: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=punitive%2C+restorative&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
  
  This trend gives hope for the future. :)