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Articles by Shirin Samimi-Moore
Google Glass: prototyped using binder clips and clay
Technology TED-Ed You may have heard of Google Glass — a new venture by Google, where a user wears a head-mounted display (think, futuristic sunglasses) that overlays digital information and images onto the physical world. Tom Chi was on the team that developed Google Glass, and spoke about the experience at TEDYouth. In this newly released TED-Ed lesson, “Rapid prototyping Google Glass,” Chi shares how the team greatly sped up their process of creation.
The scariest thing you’ve ever done: Chris Hadfield at TED2014
Live from TED Chris Hadfield. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Or, asks retired colonel Chris Hadfield to the crowd at TED2014, “What’s the most dangerous? And, why did you do it?” For Hadfield, an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency and a commander of the International Space Station for 3 months, it was to ride a rocket ship into orbit. Watch Chris Hadfield’s TED Talk >> In the early days of shuttle launches, the risk of catastrophic event — that is, death — was 1 in 9. Now it’s 1 in 38.
Beirut, I love you: Fellows Friday with Zena el Khalil
With her outrageously pink and glittery mixed-media installation pieces and paintings, artist, writer and activist Zena el Khalil takes aim at violence, injustice, and gender and religious stereotypes. Her weapons of choice: pop culture, humor and love. You express yourself through nearly every artistic medium – painting, performance, writing, film. What drives you to make art? Most of my work is reactionary to where I live.
Touching the directions: Fellows Friday with Camille Seaman
Native American photographer Camille Seaman devotes years to her subjects, revealing the unfolding of reality over time. For the last decade, she has traveled repeatedly to the Arctic and Antarctic to take portraits of polar ice, witnessing the beauty and loss of a part of Earth most of us will never see. How do your projects evolve? Do you get commissioned to go out and take pictures, or do you simply start producing photographs?
Resources for suicide prevention, post-attempt survivors and their families
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Achievement unlocked: TEDx celebrates 100,000 talks!
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Infographic: It’s Rare Disease Day
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TED Weekends: Understanding evil
Philip Zimbardo knows evil inside and out. Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil He led the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 and was an expert witness at Abu Ghraib, privy to graphic unseen images. At TED2008, Zimbardo explains how easy it is for the good to turn evil, and on the flip side, for inspiration to lead people to heroism. Today’s TED Weekends on the Huffington Post features a selection of essays surrounding the ideas brought up in Zimbardo’s talk.
TED Talks Live: Six nights of talks on Broadway
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Giving It Away: TED Radio Hour examines generosity and philanthropy
Culture How can we give in better and smarter ways? This week’s new episode of TED Radio Hour explores the effects of giving – of your money, your time and your love. As our consciousness of philanthropy is shifting towards crowdsourcing and justice-centered discourse, people begin to self-organize around the causes they are passionate about. This episode describes how we, on a grassroots level, can give in new ways.
Barack Obama’s 2013 State of the Union: Talks for deeper thinking on the issues
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TED Blog
Global Issues Hans Rosling has given nine TED Talks, each sharing a carefully measured dataset to change misconceptions about global issues. Now, the Gates Foundation shares a new demonstration from Rosling. Here, using powerful moving charts, Rosling shatters the fallacy of the "developed" world versus the "developing" world. By looking at the facts, we are able to see that child mortality rates in poorer countries have been steadily decreasing over the past 50 years.
The 20 most-watched TEDx talks so far
Playlist TEDx X certainly marks the spot. The TEDx program was launched in 2009 to bring the mission of spreading ideas to the local level, with independent organizers curating their own events for their own communities. This week, the program is celebrating many milestones. Not only did yesterday mark the 5,000th TEDx event — this week also brings the 20,000th TEDxTalk. So which of these many talks has proved the most popular?
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