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- mia's Lijit
- bees
- Ray Bradbury
- iBrain - Gary Small
- for ever young
- Aubrey du Grey's eternal youth
- Ken Robinson's ideas on education
- Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi about Flow state
- Jill Bolte Taylor
- Amadeus - Salieri helps Mozart write his Requiem
- Siegfried Woldhek's method to identify da Vinci's face
- Directia 5 's music
- Nancy Pelosi
- links
- Muse
- My Edinburgh
- Churches of Edinburgh
- my meadowbank peacocks
- my short films collection
- New Guestbook
- New Text / Write module
bees
Ray Bradbury
iBrain - Gary Small
for ever young
...is it possible the impossible? Check Aubrey du Grey's ideas
Aubrey du Grey's eternal youth
life, aging and eternal youth :)
Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
http://www.ted.com Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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Ken Robinson's ideas on education
about education from a teacher with a good sense of humour (how rare!)
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
http://www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi about Flow state
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow
http://www.ted.com Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."
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Amadeus - Salieri helps Mozart write his Requiem
a glimpse on the creative process
Amadeus - Salieri helps Mozart write his Requiem
Confutatis maledictis, Flammis acribus addictis: Voca me cum benedictis. Oro supplex et acclinis, Cor contritum quasi cinis: Gere curam mei finis. When the wicked are confounded, Doomed to flames of woe unbounded, Call me, with Thy Saints surrounded. Low I kneel, with heart submission! See, like ashes my contrition! Help me in my last condition!
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Siegfried Woldhek's method to identify da Vinci's face
Siegfried Woldhek: The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?
http://www.ted.com Leonardo Da Vinci's life and work is well known -- but his own face is not. Illustrator and activist Siegfried Woldhek used some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo. Here, he walks viewers through exactly how he did it.
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Directia 5 's music
good for your soul when your mind goes crazy
Nancy Pelosi
- Nancy Pelosi
- Nancy Pelosi - speaket of the House - on her career history and on her political principles
My Edinburgh
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my visits, my pictures, my collection
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