March 21, 2012 Leave a comment
Anwar Dafa-Alla, TEDxKhartoumb organizer, interviewed global TEDxers at TEDActive 2012. He asked one simple question–what is positive thinking? TEDxers and TEDActive attendees are changing the world. They’re incredibly optimistic, passionate, energetic, and engaged. Take a peek into how TEDsters around the world are using the power of positive thinking to change the world!
November 24, 2011 1 Comment
Eric Whitacre presented at TED in 2010 to talk about the challenges of conducting a virtual chorus of individuals from around the world. The piece, channeling the power of the human voice, is hauntingly beautiful. In fact, fans who watch the video are often moved to tears. As it turns out, there is a Tampa connection to the very piece highlighted in Eric’s TED Talk. In 2000, The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay commissioned Eric to write the piece Lux Aurumque. In fact, fans can purchase the CD containing the Master Chorale’s performance of the song on the Master Chorale website.
Founded in 1979, the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay is committed to advancing the art of choral music by performing great works of the past, commissioning and performing new literature and sharing the joy and power of choral music with new and existing audiences and singers.
March 2, 2011 Leave a comment
Wadah Khanfar of Al Jazeera eluminates the audience about how change is springing up from within the Arab world thanks to educated, connected youth. Al Jazeera is at the center of these revolutions, journalists bravely broadcasting underground at great personal risk. Wadah tells an amazingly inspirational story of bravery and the human spirit, tolerance, freedom, and friendship among the chaos.
October 17, 2010 Leave a comment
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end
Benoît Mandelbrot , a prominent mathematician who coined the term ‘fractal’ has passed away at the age of 85. In his presentation, he talks about what inspired him. His inspiration to think big started at age eleven when he realized that he may die at the hands of the Nazis in German occupied France. Watch his amazing TED 2010 talk on Fractals and the Art of Roughness.
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