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Florian Beutler: Does Earth have a special place in the universe?
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The Importance of Connections at TEDxSydney
Made for TEDxSydney 2012 by our friends at Amnesia Razorfish in Sydney.
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FourPlay String Quartet
FourPlay String Quartet defy convention and stereotyping. As much a band as a string quartet, they blur the boundaries between styles and genres while maintaining their own original and...
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Luca Belgiorno-Nettis: New Democracy
In 2005, Luca Belgiorno-Nettis and a group of ex-politicians, academics and business people started a conversation about alternatives to our current adversarial political formula. Here he gives a brief outline...
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Chris Anderson of TED interviewed by Fairfax Media May 2011
Fairfax Media's Tim Dick interviews TED's Chris Anderson about why and how TED and TEDx are becoming such a powerful mechanism for change.
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TEDxSydney Vox Pops by Kirk Docker
Kirk Docker has built a strong following on "Hungry Beast" with his vox pops. This year he asks "When have you felt powerless?" This was shot during the day of...
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TEDxSydney 2011 Trailer
This trailer for TEDxSydney 2011 was made for us by Peter Cramer at The Milk Bar. It captures the spirit of those first couple of years at Carriageworks.
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Derek Williamson: Our Biggest Killers
Manager of the Museum of Human Disease at the University of NSW, Derek Williamson works every day with the things that kill us. Here, he takes us through Australia's...
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TEDxSydney – Kerrie Noonan – My Friend Jude
Leading up to TEDxSydney 2011 we asked members of our community to give us a three minute talk on an "Idea Worth Spreading". Kerrie Noonan shares a personal and...
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Mimeisthai at TEDx Sydney 2012
What if you could trend a topic by simple speaking it? Mimeisthai is a one-off spoken-word installation exploring the spontaneity and spread of ideas, topics and thoughts - all...
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TEDxSydney 2013 Opening Video by Liquid Animation
This is the opening video for TEDxSydney 2013 at the Sydney Opera House ... crafted lovingly and made exclusively by Liquid Animation.
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University of Sydney Student Vox Pop
A short video with vox pops made by Andre Fenby and Drew Rooke, Media and Communication students at the University of Sydney … Principal Partner for TEDxSydney 2013. Music by...
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Milk at TEDxSydney 2013
An insight into John Fairly, a dairy farmer outside Sydney, who supplied the milk for the 2013 TEDxSydney event at the Sydney Opera House.
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Backstage with Ron McCallum
Question: Why do you think computers have benefitted vision impaired people for so long? Video by Launch Digital Interviewer Libby Jane Charleston
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Backstage with Andrew Parker
Question: What are you hoping people will walk away with after your talk? Video by Launch Digital Interviewer Libby Jane Charleston
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Backstage with Damien Mander
Question: What are you hoping the TEDxSydney audience took away from your talk? Video by Launch Digital Interviewer Libby Jane Charleston
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Backstage with George Khut
Question: What do you think TEDxSydney audiences took away today from your speech? Video by Launch Digital Interviewer Libby Jane Charleston
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Backstage with Omar Musa
Question: What are you hoping the audience took away from your performance today? Video by Launch Digital Interviewer Libby Jane Charleston
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Backstage with Marita Cheng
Question: What did you hope the audience took away from your talk today? Video by Launch Digital Interviewer Libby Jane Charleston
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Backstage with Tom Thum
Question: What do you hope people took away from your performance at TEDxSydney? Video by Launch Digital Interviewer Libby Jane Charleston
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Backstage with Bill Pritchard
Question: What is global food insecurity and what can we do about it? Video by Launch Digital Interviewer Libby Jane Charleston
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Chat With Alice Gorman
After her brilliant talk on the main TEDxSydney 2013 stage, Alice Gorman chats with Tim Brunero in The Studio.
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Chat With Jennifer Robinson & Benny Wenda
After their standing ovation in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Jennifer Robinson and Benny Wenda have a chat with Tim Brunero in The...
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TEDxSydney 2013 | Coming Soon
Here is some footage from the TEAM kickoff for TEDxSydney 2013 ... held at the Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House in August 2012.
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Brasserie Bread at TEDxSydney 2013
A closer look into the bread that was made at, and for, TEDxSydney 2013 at the Sydney Opera House.
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TEDxSydney 2013 Crowd Farmed by Grow it Local
A short documentary that follows the challenges of attempting to feed 2,200 people in the Sydney Opera House audience of TEDxSydney 2013 using only home grown & locally grown food. Produced...
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Chat With Danny Kennedy
After his amazing Talk on the TEDxSydney 2013 main stage, Danny Kennedy chats with Tim Brunero in The Studio of the Sydney Opera House, about Australia's success in residential...
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AEON – By DMCI
AEON: created by DMCI is a wonderful animation depicting the seasons of Earth in a whole new way.
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Dawn to Dusk. Timelapse of TEDxSydney 2013
TEDxSydney 2013 at the Sydney Opera House. Captured from dawn to dusk by The Milkbar.
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Too Much To Dream
Too Much To Dream: by Churchward Melhuish. This amazing experiment takes the writings of singles looking for love on online dating sites, and projects...
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What Inspires Us
Made for TEDxSydney 2013 by BMF, What Inspires Us is a look into the creative minds of Sydney and asks the question: What inspires You?
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TEDxSydney 2013 | Audience Ideas
We gave 17 audience members at TEDxSydney 2013 the opportunity to pitch us their "idea worth spreading" in 30 seconds. In this video TEDxSydney Presentation Director Gretel Killeen puts...
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Meet The TEDxSydney Audience 1
Tim Brunero chats with some of the TEDxSydney 2013 Audience as they are entering the Sydney Opera House in the morning.
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Urban Bees at TEDxSydney 2013
Tim Brunero takes a closer look at who is providing the Honey for TEDxSydney 2013 and how it is gathered.
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TEDxSydney 2013 Meet The Audience 2
Tim Brunero chats with some members of the TEDxSydney Audience as they prepare to go into the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House for TEDxSydney 2013.
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Everything is made of colour
Tasty Video Bit made for TEDxSydney 2013 EVERYTHING IS MADE OF COLOUR www.eleonoramignoli.com Cast Smart Kid: Brandon Stefan Merciless Hunter: Liam C-S Afro Hunk: Daniel Prypchan Unlucky Victim: Timothy Meredith Curly Daughter: Gabby Short Curly Mother: Marlen Maediger Princess:...
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Hank and the Pink Balloon
Tasty Video Bit by The Projects and Paper House Productions for TEDxSydney 2013
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Chat With Meat Providors
Meat and how it is provided was a big part of the food at TEDxSydney 2013. In this video, Tim Brunero chats with some of the people that brought...
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Chat With Lisa Murray
After her talk in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Lisa Murray chats with Tim Brunero about Sydney and archeology.
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Chat With Simon Jackman
After his talk on political, statistical analysis in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Dr Simon Jackman talks politics and more with Tim Brunero in The Studio, during TEDxSydney...
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First Taste
First Taste was a video made especially for TEDxSydney 2013 by Saatchi & Saatchi in Sydney. It documents, in stunningly evocative slow motion, a range of kids experiencing their...
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Chat With Adam Spencer
Adam Spencer received a standing ovation at TED 2013 in California after his spell-binding talk about his love of maths and prime numbers. Now at TEDxSydney 2013, Adam chats...
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Leroy Lee Sings In The Studio
The Sydney Opera House was the home of some brilliant performances at the 2013 TEDxSydney, however the Studio hosted a special performance by classical guitarist Leroy Lee.
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Gundooee Meat at TEDxSydney
Rob Lennon shows us around his organic farm, Gundooee, and tells us about supplying the beef for TEDxSydney 2013.
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TEDxSydney 2013 – A look back
A quick look back at TEDxSydney 2013 in it's new home at the Sydney Opera House, to get us all ready for 2014.
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Tim & Judy Sharp in The Studio
Fenella gets to chat with Tim and Judy Sharp immediately after they come off the main stage at TEDxSydney n 2014. Tim Sharp is an internationally acclaimed 25 year-old...
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TEDxMographic 1: Patrick Clair with Jaspertine
TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day live, over 700 in the theatre...
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Culture Shift Through Design
Alexander Lotersztain was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1977. He graduated from Design at Griffith University QCA in 2000. He is director of Derlot Pty. Ltd., a multi-disciplinary studio...
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Rima Najm: Inspired by Injustice
Leading up to TEDxSydney 2011 we asked members of our community to give us a three minute talk on an "Idea Worth Spreading". In this performance, Australian poet Rima Najm...
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Consciousness Philosopher David Chalmers
This video was made to track the journey of one of our TEDxSydney 2011 speakers. David Chalmers is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at...
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AFTRS Promotional Video Bit
These films were made for TEDxSydney 2010 by the students of the Australian Film Television & Radio School.
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TEDxSydney – Patrick Clair with Jaspertine – TEDxQuotesMographic
TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day live, over 700 in the theatre...
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Faces With Sharing: Patrick Clair with Jaspertine
TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day live, over 700 in the theatre...
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The Forum: Lisa Gorton Poetry Reading
TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day live, over 700 in the theatre...
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The Forum: Benezra Poetry Reading
TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day live, over 700 in the theatre...
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The Forum: Lionel Fogarty Poetry Reading
TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day live, over 700 in the theatre...
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Lara Stein: Representing TEDx
TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day live, over 700 in the theatre...
Idea
The path to net zero – Ensuring today’s challenges are not passed on to future generations
As one of the world’s most sustainable higher education institutions, the University of Sydney are pioneering advances in waste management, solar panel and battery technology. As Australia prepared...
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The Underground Forest: Regenerating Land without Planting a Single Tree
Every year, land is degraded as millions of hectares of trees are cleared – and the carbon dioxide they store is released back into the atmosphere. The carbon stored...
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Why Marque Lawyers supports The Voice to Parliament
The “Yes” posters are going up in the windows of our office this week, physically adding our collective voice to the call that this moment be firmly grasped.
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2023 TEDxSydney Film Program
We're excited to announce the short film program for 2023, which will premier during TEDxSydney 2023 on 1 September at the Hordern Pavilion. This year we have an...
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Leading in Uncertain Times: Navigating complexity and driving innovation.
Today's world is a vast landscape of complex challenges and endless opportunities. We find ourselves at a tipping point, a critical juncture where resilience, adaptability, and innovation have become...
Idea
The AI Revolution – Its influence and challenges
The dawn of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution marks an era of unprecedented possibilities and substantial challenges. The widespread integration of AI across industries signifies not only a...
Idea
Tech Disruption & Resilience: Adapting to the Changing Technological Landscape
In a world defined by constant technological evolution, the creative arts and production industry faced its share of challenges and opportunities in recent times, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Nuclear waste: the key to our future energy needs? | Jo Lackenby
Nuclear waste can make people feel pretty uneasy. But what if we could recycle it to make clean, abundant electricity? Jo Lackenby is passionate about the environment and low...
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TEDxSydney 2021 Launch Video
The TEDxSydney Main Event for 2021 will be held ONLINE on 26 November 2021. Join us for an inspiring day of Talks, Performance, Films and more; as we will...
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65,000 yrs – the great history of Australian Aboriginal Astronomy | Kirsten Banks
Emus can’t fly, but there’s an Emu in the sky. People have been looking up to the stars for a long time, but for how long? Explore a different...
Partner Video
Macinley Butson | TEDxSydney 2018 | Ideas of Note Speakers Series
This series takes you on a journey to uncover and share the key turning points of various TEDxSydney alumni speakers to date. Each of the videos profile an individual who...
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What would happen if your everyday technology had a familiar face? Mike Seymour tells us
As humans, when we talk about our relationship with technology, the word ‘transactional’ mostly comes to mind. But, what if our connection to a particular device or...
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Positive emotions and decision making with artificial intelligence
Reflecting on his experience living with six people in a simulated Mars environment, TEDxSydney speaker James Bevington shared the lessons he learned...
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Using honey to stop superbugs in their tracks | Nural Cokcetin
Antibiotic drugs are essential for saving lives, but we are over prescribing them which leads to superbugs - infection causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Microbiology research scientist,...
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The Drones that Grow Our Food | Anastasia Volkova
Each year, billions of dollars of fertiliser is wasted and much of it ends up in our waterways. Aeronautical Engineer, Anastasia Volkova explains that there is a better way...
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Let’s teach mathematics creatively | Ivan Zelich
Two years ago, when Ivan Zelich was a 17-year-old school student, he co-developed a theorem that took the global scientific community by storm. He believes that the way that...
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Why We Need Engineers Now More Than Ever | Elanor Huntington
Elanor Huntington argues that now more than ever we need engineers – as they are the ones who bring together people, technology and society, if only engineers could do...
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The Computer Science of Human Decision Making | Tom Griffiths
If you have ever been wracked with indecision over seemingly simple tasks, such as what clothes to wear that day or which restaurant to choose for dinner, then Cognitive...
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TEDxSydney 2017 Speakers – Elanor Huntington
Talking with TEDxSydney 2017 speaker, Elanor Huntington, was a bit like pairing certain foods together that you think would never work. But when you do, it blows...
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TEDxSydney Adventures – Michael J. Biercuk on Science
TEDxSydney Adventures are unique field trips with our alumni speakers and members of the TEDxSydney community, presented by Toyota Prius. Designed to draw back the curtain on the lives and loves of our speakers, TEDxSydney...
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Watch brand new TEDxSydney Talks from our first Salon event
Last month we launched our inaugural TEDxSydneySalons – a series of intimate events combining talks, films, music and more, presented by Toyota Prius. Our first Salon focused on the...
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Radical Design For Environmental Health | Natalie Jeremijenko
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist, engineer, inventor and academic. She’s never subscribed to the idea that art and science don’t mix. Her many extraordinary experiments have a serious intent...
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This Is Your Brain On Sugar | Amy Reichelt
As a neuroscientist, Amy is fascinated with how our brains control our behaviours in our dynamic and changing world. Things we eat, like junk food also affect our brain....
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Meet The Speakers: Ray Dearlove | TEDxSydney 2016
In 2013, Ray Dearlove co-founded The Australian Rhino Project which is focused on establishing breeding herds of white and black rhinoceros in Australia as an insurance population for the...
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How Camera Drones are Changing Our World
Camera drones are, literally, inverting the way we see the world. But could it be they are also changing the way we feel about the world? Is there some link...
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Meet The Speakers: Jordan Nguyen | TEDxSydney 2016
Meet The Speakers - Previewing Our 2016 Speaker Line-up Jordan Nguyen’s mission in life is to improve the lives of as many people as possible and to be a driving...
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Meet The Speakers: Michael J. Biercuk | TEDxSydney 2016
Associate Professor Michael J. Biercuk is a quantum physicist and technologist at the University of Sydney, and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for...
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How Ideas Spread: Debating the Virus Analogy
As we discussed in the last article in our 'How Ideas Spread' series, our social networks play a critical role in the spread of ideas. Yet it doesn’t stop there,...
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The Power of Simple Questions
Modern life can seem overwhelmingly complex. By uncovering astounding insights into the world we live in from asking three brief questions, Alan shows how sometimes that the best way...
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False Hope? There's No Such Thing!
Charlie Teo is an inspirational neurosurgeon, pushing the boundaries to the point where the medical fraternity shun him. He gives people hope, time and life. Charlie is an internationally...
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Playlist: The Post-Davos Playlist
Health, inequality, technology, climate change and the future of democracy dominated discussions at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January. In the wake of these discussions, we revisit...
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Playlist: TED’s take on love
Whether you’re trying to find love, save your relationship or justify that extra-marital affair with Bob (or Barb) from Accounts, the TED community has come up with some pretty...
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Richard Banati Outside The Studio
Richard Banati is an internationally-recognised scientist with interdisciplinary research interests in the brain's innate immune system and the development of advanced medical imaging for the detection of subtle of...
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Cindi Shannon Weikert in The Studio
Prof Cyndi Shannon Weickert talks with Fenella Kernebone about her TEDxSydney 2014 talk. Prof Shannon Weickert is dedicated to helping those suffering from schizophrenia. She obtained a BA in...
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Enhancing Responsibility: Nicole Vincent
Performance enhancing has dominated debate in sport the world over. But what about in the rest of our lives? In this thought-provoking talk, Nicole Vincent discusses the fact that,...
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Freedom from Schizophrenia, A Twin's Quest: Cyndi Shannon Weickert
At 17, Cyndi watched with disbelief as her twin, Scott, descended into madness. Pained by Scott's schizophrenia and not satisfied with available treatments, she aimed to find a...
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The Multitudes in All of Us: Adam Alter
Adam Alter, author of the bestseller "Drunk Tank Pink" delightfully explains the effects of subtle cues in the environment on human judgment, decision-making, and behavior. People have the...
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Chat With Alice Gorman
After her brilliant talk on the main TEDxSydney 2013 stage, Alice Gorman chats with Tim Brunero in The Studio.
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A Cure for Ageing?
Can we really cure ageing? David Sinclair thinks so, and he's going to try to prove it. David Sinclair is a scientist and entrepreneur working on increasing human health,...
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Does Colour Exist?
Andrew Parker studied marine biology and physics at the Australian Museum and Macquarie University, and then moved to Oxford University. After founding the 'Light Switch Hypothesis' – that the...
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Space Archaeology
Alice speaks of the cultural and historical significance of what many now call "space junk" currently orbiting around our planet: from the oldest man made satellite in space, Vanguard...
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The End of ‘Green’ By Jeremy Heimans
Jeremy Heimans is co-founder and CEO of Purpose.com, a social enterprise that mobilises millions of citizens and consumers to help solve global problems. Purpose has built global movements to...
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Fire & Ice
Tom Griffiths is the W K Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University and has written a history of Antarctica entitled Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica....
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Our Relationship with Weeds
A lot of effort is spent trying to eradicate invasive species. Angela wants us to reconsider our relationship with weeds. She argues passionately that we should learn to tolerate...
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Vision, Robotics & Bees
Mandyam Srinivasan's research focuses on the principles of visual processing, perception and cognition in simple natural systems, and on the application of these principles to machine vision and robotics.
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The Universe is Big
Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt takes us on a 15-minute tour of the Universe, explaining the thinking that led him and his colleagues to identify a hitherto unknown force: 'dark...
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The New Diamond Age of Nanoscience
Amanda Barnard is the leader of the Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory at the CSIRO. Her current research includes predicting the properties and environmental stability of nanoparticles, and their interactions with...
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Climate Change & The Power of Myth
Jonathan Marshall is an Australian Research Council supported anthropologist situated at the University of Technology Sydney and has written much about the history of Western science and the occult,...
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Astonishing Molecular Machines
Drew Berry is a biomedical animator whose scientifically accurate and aesthetically rich visualisations reveal the microscopic world inside our bodies to a wide range of audiences. His...
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Reviving Waste
Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla is the leader of research into Sustainable Materials as the Director of Sustainable Materials Research & Technology (SMaRT@UNSW) at the University of New South Wales....
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The Human Variome Project
Richard Cotton has always been interested in the biochemical genetics of human disease and has recently focussed on mutation. He is particularly interested in improving mutation detection technologies...