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TEDxSalford Highlights
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Tweeting Towards Immortality
I hate to sleep. For me it is the burden of my day. If I can, I like to stay up late and get up early. If I happened to stumble across a magic lamp and a genie popped out, (do you imagine the genie from Aladdin?) one of my obligatory three wishes would be [...] |
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30 Is No Longer The New 20
An inspirational talk ’Why 30 is not the new 20’ by Meg Jay (TED; February 2013) starts with Jay, who is a clinical psychologist by profession, talking about her first psychotherapy client. ‘Alex’ came with ‘boy’ problems, which was a relief for Jay as another colleagues’ first client was an arsonist! They mused over funny [...] |
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War of the Words: The Language Battle You’re Fighting
Do you impute pretentiousness to people who use nepheligenous or skewbald words? Don’t worry if it doesn’t mean anything to you, we’ll come back to it. For now just pay attention solider; there’s a war happening. |
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The Magic of Science
In the midst of our humdrum lives we sometimes forget about the magic of the world around us. That even just existing is rather a wondrous thing. It is good to have a reminder now and then, something which this TED speaker is here to do. He is here to tell us about the magic [...] |
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What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.
