June 5, 2013
Mohenjo
Technical
#18ideas, amazon, Best Of TED 2011, business, celebrities, design, food, gallon of milk, Hotels, huffingtonpost, Ideas Worth Spreading, Innovation, Kathryn Schulz, natural response, principle of physics, Regret, research, restaurants, Science, Science News, spilled milk, technology, Technology News, TedTalks, tedtalks2011, travel, vacation, Video
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Early one morning a couple of months ago, as I was rushing around trying to get my act together in time to catch a train to New York, I filled a thermos with coffee, reached into the fridge, grabbed an unopened half-gallon of milk — one of those fancy, bottled-in-glass-like-the-good-old-days kinds — and promptly dropped the entire thing on the kitchen floor.
Here’s what happened next. The glass shattered upward and outward, in spectacular, slow-motion-film-worthy fashion; I later found shards in the cat’s dish, the salad bowl, and the blender, two shelves up. The half-gallon of milk set about demonstrating some principle of physics involving volume and surface area, or maybe some principle of religion involving loaves and fishes. Either way, in under three seconds, vast, improbable quantities of it were everywhere: soaking one leg of my jeans, running in lewd streams down the oven, flowing through a gap under a closed door and into the next room. As I stood there missing my train, I had a flash of insight. The reason we are instructed not to cry over spilled milk is that, if you spill enough of it, crying (or its adult analog: cursing) is the only natural response.
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.Click link below for Ted Video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/kathryn-schulz-on-regret_n_1120765.html
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February 28, 2013
Mohenjo
Technical
#18ideas, amazon, BP Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill 2010, business, Cesar Harada, Chevron, climate, Environment, Green News, Gulf Oil Spill, Health, Innovation, inventors and scientists, nature, Oil, oil spill, open sailing, open source hardware, research, risk, Science, Science News, straw bales, technology, Technology News, ted talks, TedTalks, tedtalks2011, travel, vacation, Video, x prize foundation
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Looking at photos from the November spill, so eerily similar to the photos from BP’s April 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s clear we are still looking for energy in risky places, and largely unprepared to deal with the consequences of failure. One year after the BP spill (which workers soaked up, in large part, with straw bales), the X Prize Foundation announced winners of a million-dollar incentive to develop new tools to clean up oil spills: And many others are looking at this problem too, including one of TED’s Senior Fellows, Cesar Harada. Harada is an inventor — of a staggering number of kinds of things. One of them is the Open_Sailing project, a group of inventors and scientists building open-source hardware and software to explore and study the ocean.
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.Click link below for article and Ted talk:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/naomi-klein-risk_n_1136389.html?utm_hp_ref=tedtalks2011
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December 25, 2012
Mohenjo
Technical
#18ideas, Arab Spring, business, courageous actions, current-events, global attention, huffingtonpost, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, middle-east, necessary lessons, Nonviolence, occupy-wall-street, Palestine, politics, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, tedtalks2011, travel, vacation, Video
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In many ways, 2011 was a year when the people finally had their say. From Cairo to Wall Street, throngs of frustrated yet invigorated civilians poured into the streets and took their societies’ futures into their own hands. Though unpredictable, these movements grabbed the world’s attention, and helped remind us that great change comes most often through the courageous actions of ordinary people.
In 2012, we have both an opportunity and a responsibility to learn the necessary lessons from these movements, and to apply them to some of the world’s most pressing problems. There is no better place to start than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where for too long global attention has been exclusively focused on obstacles at the top, rather than breakthroughs at the bottom.
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.Click link below for story and Ted talk:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/nonviolence_n_1142021.html?utm_hp_ref=tedtalks2011
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November 30, 2012
Mohenjo
Technical
#18ideas, Algorithm, aviation, Best Of TED 2011, blogging, Boxcar-Ga, business, companion essay, design, Education, Environment, gaming, Genetic-Algorithms, huffingtonpost, Ideas Worth Spreading, Innovation, Kevin Slavin, research, Science, Science News, Social Change, technology, Technology News, TEDGlobal, TedTalks, tedtalks2011, transportation, vacation, Video
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Watch game developer Kevin Slavin’s TEDTalk above and then explore his thoughts in this companion essay.
Back at TEDGlobal, the most difficult aspect of preparation was the editing process, chipping away at three hours of material to cut it down into 14 live minutes.
Of all the darlings that were killed, the ones I missed most were a few minutes about genetic algorithms. Like everything I presented, it’s a subject for which I have interest and passion, not training or expertise. It’s going to seem very dull. But stay with me for a few of the missing minutes.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/kevin-slavin-how-algorith_n_1120684.html
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November 20, 2012
Mohenjo
Technical
#18ideas, Data Mining, gaming, Google, internet, Internet Censorship, Internet Freedom, media, nhl, sports, super-bowl, technology, Technology News, TedTalks, tedtalks2011, Video
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Watch author Eli Pariser discuss secret censorship on the Internet, and read is accompanying blog post below following up on his talk.
People love sharing lists — the list is one of the formats that fare well in a Filter Bubble world. So here’s a list of five of the most interesting ideas I’ve come across since I gave my presentation at TED and published The Filter Bubble: What The Internet is Hiding from You.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/internet-censorship_n_1147078.html?1323877374
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October 26, 2012
Mohenjo
Technical
#18ideas, aviation, aviator charles lindbergh, business, cars, Future, Health, Heart Disease, Heart Transplant, huffingtonpost, Kidney Transplant, medicine, Organ Transplant, Printing Organs, Regenerative Medicine, regenerative powers, replacement organs, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, TedTalks, tedtalks2011, transportation, travel, vacation, Video
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To many people, the idea of growing replacement body parts in the lab sounds like modern-day science fiction. People are often surprised to learn that this notion of harnessing the body’s natural regenerative powers isn’t new. In fact, aviator Charles Lindbergh did research in this area back in the 1930s in hopes of finding a solution for his ailing sister-in-law. The idea has endured because of the desperate need for replacement organs. Every 30 seconds, a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with organ or tissue replacement.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/printing-organs_n_1160307.html?utm_hp_ref=tedtalks2011
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May 26, 2012
Mohenjo
Science
#18ideas, adults, Education, gaming, huffingtonpost, intractable problems, John Hunter, kids, narrative, Technology News, ted, TedTalks, tedtalks2011, Video, world game, World Peace, World Peace Game
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Watch John Hunter discuss the World Peace Game and what adults can learn from children in approaching today’s most intractable problems.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/world-peace-game_n_1169863.html?1324915273
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James' World 2 