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My cousin (a few times removed - but hey, we’re a big Franco-American family) Roger gives a fascinating talk about his Kitchen Gardeners International network.
A great TEDtalk from Gabe Zichermann about using games to improve student outcomes.
How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how it all connects up
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Our heritage is much more than our collective memory, it is our collective treasure.
We owe it to our children, our grandchildren, and the generations we will never meet to keep it safe and pass it along.
”A wonderful presentation by Ben Kacyra about his work digitally preserving the world’s heritage sites.
A fascinating presentation with powerful examples of how twitter is changing the way we interact with the news.
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.
A fascinating account of the most up-to-date child development research. What do babies think?
Another engaging talk from Malcolm Gladwell weaving the tale of Karl Norden and the unexpected impact of the groundbreaking piece of World War II technology - the Norden bombsight.
