http://youtu.be/eAnHjuTQF3M The Brio team started the week with this TED Talk by Cynthia Breazeal on the rise of personal robots. The Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) founded the Media Lab's Personal Robots Group. She says in her talk:...
Continue ReadingThe second TEDxBrisbane was held at the State Library of Queensland last weekend. More than 450 people attended the event. It was a great day and a few firm favourites shone through. My top moments of the day include: Gordon Hamilton's Toy Story 3 = Awesome Composer Gordon...
Continue Readinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjxI_5MPUY Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture and about...
Continue ReadingThe Brio team started Monday with this talk by Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus. [briotube]http://www.youtube.com/v/qu7ZpWecIS8?[/briotube]...
Continue ReadingI have a confession. I've never read Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat,Pray, Love. I've never had any urge to read her story of finding herself following the breakdown of her marriage. I will confess, I begrudgingly sat through the movie adaptation of the book and it didn't...
Continue ReadingWillie Smits, a conservationist who has devoted his life to the orangutan, gave a powerful TED Talk where he describes his work restoring the rainforest and saves the lives of countless orangutans. He expresses the horrific ecological barbarity resulting from the palm oil and timber industries...
Continue Readinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-bjOJzB7LY In this TED talk Adora Svitak, American child prodigy and published author reminds us of what we can learn as adults, from children. She reminds us that when we were children we had crazy ideas of doing and achieving anything we could imagine. Then as...
Continue Readinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSohjlYQI2A&feature=channel_video_title In this concise TED talk, Julian Treasure addresses the concern that we are losing our hearing. He suggests that conscious listening creates understanding, and without understanding we can't achieve complete communication and peaceful relationships. He provides us with 5 easy tricks for improving our listening skills. One...
Continue Readinghttp://youtu.be/pFDoCLf96Kg In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is...
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