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Biology - Singularity - Macro photography - Cultures - Food

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The pursuit of human knowledge - Social collaboration - Design thinking

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• A comment on Talk: Julia Sweeney: Letting go of God

  Nov 8 2011: A true actress. I would love to be that comfortable on stage !

• A comment on Talk: Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive

  Sep 9 2011: This is all very disturbingly fascinating !!!! I am eager to follow his work !
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  A comment on Talk: Julia Bacha: Pay attention to nonviolence

  Sep 9 2011: Having been to Palestine and met the people in the conflict, I am sure that it is possible for a non violence mouvement to emerge.
  Unfortunately media prefers portraying the sensationalist image of war and violence. How can we make peaceful demonstrations sell more papers than violent riots?

• A comment on Talk: Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

  May 18 2011: We have been isolated in so many ways allready, it is incredible to think that consumerim needs to isolate groups of people in order to sell them products, create artificial groups of people that can be identified by brands or certain things they consume. What I am saying is not new to anyone who works in marketing, and every kid that goes to highschool can give you the perfect example by pointing out the assigned cafeteria tables for the cool kids, the punk kids, emo's, rapers and so on. Its all a way of excluding ourself from the mass, which induces us into consuming specific things. But now, the only thing that could liberate us is enclosing us as well. I've never thought of the google filtering my results, so naive of me to think that I was swiming in an ocean of information.
  
  Thank you for this amazing talk Eli Parisien. You woke me up, im certainly not in my bubble anymore...

• A comment on Talk: Jackson Browne: "If I Could Be Anywhere"

  Apr 21 2011: Beautiful lyrics. So much passion in his words. if emotions had a language, it is definitely music, this is why we should all learn how to master a music instrument. We would all understand our feelings better, take better decisions for us, and the world.
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  A comment on Talk: Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration

  Apr 15 2011: Only one question, how does he predict 50 years of chaos? from what data?
  Nonetheless , I find his vision extraordinary. I also think that in-order for more people to be involved in a collaboration scheme, there should be a shift from personal recognition, to a group recognition. It depends on what field you look at it, but still many fields only recognize one person for the work that they coordinated. I say coordinated, because that is what they do. They didnt do the work its self. Yes they had the vision, but whitout the work they would of never be awarded as individuals.
  I understand that this is a bigger problem than just changing the way we recognize groups. Only because, we would have to relearn how not to be jealous and individualistic. So, yeah... still alot of work to be done to change man, before man can change the world. But hey, TED is the frist step. hehe

• A comment on Talk: Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world

  Apr 14 2011: Cognitive surplus is something that individuals may be able to do by them selfs. We can contribute as adults, but if we want our next generation to be even more implicated in society, it is necessary for everyone that is in the position of supporting curiosity and idea development to do so with children and students. it is only by changing the dogma that more people will attach this as their principle of life.
  
  love the talk, love ted
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  A comment on Talk: Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong

  Apr 1 2011: Bindbogging, got the shivers 5 times! brrrrr. Please let this trend of collaboration continue.
  
  Love TED
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  A comment on Talk: Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison

  Mar 24 2011: Fundamental to rehabilitation of prisoners, bringing them back to nature, to show them the fragility and cooperation needed in plants and animals, and so giving them the chance to explore the idea that man is fragile and that it needs to cooperate with others, not to fight them, in order to survive and prosper.
  
  beautiful short talk, I love trees, mostly maple trees, im from Quebec, canada hehe
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  A comment on Talk: Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art

  Mar 23 2011: It is true that we cannot comprehend the number a trillion dollars. For this I encourage C.Jordan. The fact is that if we want to change, we need to split in groups. Some will put our worst fears in our face, like this guy, showing us the amount of cups used in airplanes, some, will astonish us with new green technologies so we dont to use a billion cups in airplanes.
  It is true that his talk is less inspirational than others, but it is necessary and very useful. It must be hard to speak at TED about the problems that we have,without giving a solution to this. Here you are surrounded by people that come to a conference where they can dream, and a guy is shooting them with all the problems in society without giving solutions, boooo. The truth is, that this guy has balls, and we need more of the "negative" activists, spreading the reality, the problems we have.
  
  It is only when a drug addict accepts its addiction, that it can start the process of healing, never before.