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TEDxYouth@ISGDammam: TEDxYouth@ISGDammam 20201031 - an independently organized event
About this event: TEDxYouth@ISGDammam aims to spread strong, positive messages for young people and show different kinds of ideas related to chain reaction. From the domino effect to nuclear reaction, our speakers will discuss about chain reaction in various perspectives.
Event details: Dammam, Ash Sharqīyah, Saudi Arabia · October 31, 2020
TEDxWCLSantaClara - an independently organized event
About this event: Talks discussed:
Michael Shellenberger: How Fear of Nuclear Power is Hurting the Environment
Monica Araya: A Small Country with Big Ideas to Get Rid of Fossil Fuels
Taylor Wilson: The Future of Energy
Total Attendees: 12
Link to public presentation:
https://prezi.com/view/ZK9VLkX2eZ7EPQSFutD0/
Event details: Santa Clara, Utah, United States · January 22, 2018
Ben Kacyra | TED Speaker
Ben Kacyra uses state-of-the-art technology to preserve cultural heritage sites and let us in on their secrets in a way never before possible.
Digital preservationist
TEDxPaloAlto - an independently organized event
About this event: At TEDxPaloAltoSalon 2019: Rethink, hear from an extraordinary lineup of individuals rethinking our understanding of epigenetics, musical performance, neuro technology, belief systems, origami, nuclear power and PTSD.
Event details: Palo Alto, California, United States · September 21, 2019
George Dyson | TED Speaker
In telling stories of technologies and the individuals who created them, George Dyson takes a clear-eyed view of our scientific past -- while illuminating what lies ahead.
Historian of science
Matt Langione | TED Speaker
BCG's Matt Langione is a principal in the firm's Boston office, where he brings research-intensive deep tech innovations to market.
Quantum advocate
After a nuclear disaster, then what? A surprising look at the animals of Chernobyl and Fukushima
Which is the bigger threat to wildlife: Radioactivity or humans? Wildlife ecologist Jim Beasley has gone into the contaminated zones around Chernobyl and Fukushima to learn the answer, and his findings are both sobering and heartening.
When humans are evacuated after a nuclear disaster, what happens to the environment -- soil, plants and trees,...
Posted February 13, 2020
TEDxPaloAltoSalon - an independently organized event
About this event: At TEDxPaloAltoSalon Rethink 2019, we will hear from an extraordinary lineup of individuals rethinking our understanding of epigenetics, musical performance, neuro technology, belief systems, origami, nuclear power and more.
Event details: Palo Alto, California, United States · September 21, 2019
Disagreements on the TED stage: Speaker debates over the years
TED2013 kicks off in just 11 days. And, in the very first session, Robert J. Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson will ascend the stage for a debate on the future of work. While Gordon will focus on how our current ecosystem of innovation is too focused on personal gadgetry, and thus isn’t setting us up to solve the big problems of the future, Brynjolfs...
Posted February 13, 2013
TEDxFukuokaLive - an independently organized event
About this event: Time: 7:00PM-9:00PM(JST)
TED2014 Simulcast: All-Stars Session 2: Beauty and the Brain
Tierney Thys – Marine biologist
Dan Gilbert – Psychologist; happiness expert
Emily Levine – Philosopher-comic
David Brooks – Columnist
Jane McGonigal – Game Designer
Neil Turok – Physicist, education activist
Rory Sutherland – Advertisin...
Event details: Fukuoka-city, Japan · March 19, 2014
Good energy comes in small packages: Taylor Wilson at TED2013
Taylor Wilson graduated from high school in May. And Popular Science has already dubbed him "The Boy who Played with Fusion" and Forbes has suggested that he may just be "The Bill Gates of Energy."
Wilson first received attention at the age of 14, after building a nuclear fusion reactor he'd dreamed up in his parents’ garage. He spoke at ...
Posted February 27, 2013
Opinion: Data isn’t the new oil -- it’s the new nuclear power
Data is a valuable, powerful commodity -- but unlike oil, it is unlimited in quantity and in its capacity for harm, says technology thinker James Bridle.
The phrase “data is the new oil” was apparently coined in 2006 by Clive Humby, the British mathematician and architect of the Tesco Clubcard, a supermarket reward program. Since then, it has b...
Posted July 17, 2018
3 teenage thinkers with big ideas for energy
Taylor Wilson has been called “The Boy Who Played With Fusion” by Popular Science magazine. At age 9, Wilson stunned tour guides at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with his complex understanding of rocket science. At 12, he set out to make a “star in a jar.” By 14, Wilson had become the youngest person to achieve nuc...
Posted April 30, 2013
TEDxRyukyu: Crossroad - an independently organized event
About this event: This is our second event. Speakers are movie director/producer, young ambitious university student, innovative English teacher, high school solar car project leader, photographer, architect, traditional dancer, artist, social enterprise innovator, free diver, deep sea explorer, doctor, and nuclear researcher.
Event details: Okinawa prefecture, Japan · November 9, 2013
Five years on: Fukushima residents share their stories
Five years ago, a tsunami and nuclear disaster led to the mass evacuation of the Fukushima region of Japan. Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart covered the aftermath; last September he returned for a month to see how the situation has progressed. Here, he shares some of his portraits and reflections about the trip.
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Posted March 10, 2016
TEDxBHCWest - an independently organized event
About this event: The Designer
The Mouth Musician
The Nuclear Scientist
The Yo-yo Champion
The Legal Activist
What do all these people have in common? Find out in the Barrett Suite on 2/27. Killer speakers in a live stream from TED 2013: The Young, The Wise, The Undiscovered. Lively discussions, food, drink, and ideas worth spreading.
Event details: Glendale, Arizona, United States · February 27, 2013
Severn Cullis-Suzuki | TED Speaker
Severn Cullis-Suzuki is a lifelong environmental activist seeking justice for future generations.
Environmental educator
When there's not enough family to celebrate Thanksgiving with
In January 2020, a new advice column from New York City psychologist Guy Winch, who has given two beautifully thoughtful and helpful TED Talks and written one TED book, will appear on TED.com. Called “Dear Guy,” the column will consist of Guy’s answers to questions from readers.
As we’re preparing to publish it, we’ve realized this: We need ...
Posted November 20, 2019
TEDxHvAmsterdam - an independently organized event
About this event: Humanity stands on a crossroad: will this be the best or worst century to come? How do we protect ourselves against emerging populism, nuclear warfare, ecological disaster, and technological threats? At the same time, our contemporary society can be defined through the endless possibilities for a better producible future. The TEDxHvAmsterdam wan...
Event details: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands · September 30, 2019
This pill may be a cure for radiation poisoning
Chemist Rebecca Abergel and her colleagues have found a way to remove radioactive contaminants from the body. Now they are trying to put their solution in a pill.
After the US dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War Two, more than 100,000 people died -- many from exposure to radiation. At high doses,...
Posted December 9, 2015
New playlists: Animals that amaze and The end of oil?
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built specially for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, two new playlists are available: Animals that amaze and The end of oil?
Animals that amaze
At TED there's a certain species of speaker who is absolutely devoted to all kinds of weird beasts...
Posted December 1, 2012
TEDxTomsk - an independently organized event
About this event: There are more people who capitulate than those who fail.
Henry Ford
The topic of the first TEDxTomsk conference is
“TO ERR IS HUMAN”
Is the meaning of mistake changing in contemporary world?
“My mistake – I remained an employee for too long. I was unhappy, because all this time I did not learn anything useful. I could have started ...
Event details: Tomsk, Tomskaya oblast', Russia · May 27, 2011
Building blocks: Notes from Session 3 at TEDSummit
What are the tools we're using to build the future? Session 3 speakers go deep on what's next in finance, energy, business and the structures we live in.
The next generation of trust on the Internet. For many online transactions, we rely on middlemen like banks and government to establish trust -- but these systems face growing issues lik...
Posted June 28, 2016
Lessons in courage, from a team of Japanese firefighters
How an elite squad of Tokyo firefighters found the courage to confront the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
On March 18, 2011, Tokyo fire division chief Yasuo Sato (TEDxSeeds Talk: How we put out the fire in Japan’s nuclear reactor) dispatched 119 firefighters to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster zone, six days after a series of explosions tore through...
Posted January 20, 2016
It's time to lead: The talks of Session 6 of TEDWomen 2016
When Hillary Clinton became the first female nominee of a major political party in the United States this summer, she reflected that this achievement "belongs to generations of women and men who struggled, sacrificed and made this moment possible." Women have been leaders throughout history, making positive changes in their communities. But in s...
Posted October 28, 2016
TEDxMeijiUniversity - an independently organized event
About this event: Inspiration for this event comes from the notion of a particle accelerator. The accelerator can bring about nuclear fusion and fission.
Fusion generates new material and enormous energy through the collision of two different atomic nuclei. Fission creates energy through the chain reaction which occurs when a neutron hits an atomic nucleus.
In ...
Event details: Chiyoda, Tôkyô, Japan · March 19, 2016
TEDxNorrköpingLive: The Young. The Wise, The Undiscovered. - an independently organized event
About this event: This TEDxNorrköpingLive event consists of TED2013 simulcasted from TED2013, Long Beach, CA.
17:30 Session 4, Disrupt!:
Alastair Parvin, Designer
Danny Hillis, Computer theorist
Sanjay Dastoor; Roboticist
BLACK, Yo-yo champion
Lesley Perkes, Public art instigator
Sergey Brin, Co-founder
Amanda Palmer, Musician, blogger
Larry Lessig, ...
Event details: Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden · February 27, 2013
A new push for fusion power: Michel Laberge at TED2014
"The whole planet needs a lot of energy," begins Michel Laberge, in an understatement. So far, he says, we've been running on fossil fuels, and it's been difficult to find something as cost-effective to replace them. Laberge is a fan of nuclear power, which he thinks is the best solution to that problem in the long run.There are two ways to prod...
Posted March 18, 2014
Nuclear fission reactors, Africa's Einsteins and the healing power of nature: A recap of "Beauty and the Brain," All-Stars Session 2 at TED2014
By Liz Jacobs and Thu-Huong Ha
Our brains work in mysterious ways. They make us laugh, they make us cry, and sometimes, they make us 19-year old geniuses. The 11 speakers in this All-Stars session specialize in areas of the brain as diverse as personality, trauma and gender, but they all agree: Our minds matter.
Below, read a deta...
Posted March 18, 2014