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Behind the Scenes at TEDxSMU 2011
Our incredible friends at Wright IMC have been hard at work since September cooking up a behind the scenes video of the conference. Voila! Today we unveil the finished product. Take a look at what it’s like backstage and before the show starting with the TEDxSMU Auditions in October 2011 and ending at this year’s [...]
Read moreThe Carole & Jim Young Fellows
Thanks to the generous support of a TEDxSMU donor, we’re thrilled to announce the creation of the Carole & Jim Young Fellows program to bring SMU students to TEDxSMU. The Carole & Jim Young Fellows represent the most interesting SMU students. This fall, we will open applications for students from each of the seven schools [...]
Read moreTEDxSMU Tuesday 7.19.11
Paul Root Wolpe, Emory Center for Ethics Genetically Engineered Animals Beefalo Beefalo are a fertile hybrid offspring of domestic cattle, Bos taurus, and the American bison, Bison bison (generally called buffalo in the US). The breed was created to combine the characteristics of both animals with a view towards beef production. Geep A sheep–goat chimera [...]
Read moreTEDxSMU Tuesday 7.5.11
Rajesh Rao Probabilistic Analysis of an Ancient Undeciphered Script, IEEE Computer, 2010 Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script, Science, May 2009 Indus Valley Civilization (aka Harappan Civilization, the Indus-Sarasvati or Hakra Civilization) Indus Valley Civilization, Wikipedia “The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) was a Bronze Age civilization (3300–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 [...]
Read moreTEDxSMU Tuesday 6.28.11
Janine Benyus Biomimicry Institute Biomimicry Guild AskNature.org Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (book) E.O. Wilson’s Encyclopedia of Life Companies Using Biomimicry in Design Calera Corporation Sequestering CO2 in the Built Environment Sharklet Technologies Sharklet™ is the world’s first technology to inhibit bacterial growth through pattern alone. The antimicrobial Sharklet surface is comprised of millions [...]
Read moreTEDxSMU Tuesday 6.21.11
Rabbi David Stern Rabbi Abraham Heschel Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Rabbi Heschel marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma in 1965. Heschel later wrote, “When I marched in Selma, my feet were praying.” Man’s Search for [...]
Read moreTEDxSMU Tuesday 6.14.11
Are You More Than the Sum of Your Parts? Sebastian Seung, PhD Professor of Computational Neuroscience Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Emergence In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels [...]
Read moreTEDxSMU Tuesday 6.7.11
Burt Rutan Burt Rutan is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important industrial designers, and his prolific contributions to air- and spacecraft design have driven the industry forward for decades. His two companies, Rutan Aircraft Factory and Scaled Composites, have developed and flight-tested more new types of aircraft than the rest of the [...]
Read moreTEDxSMU Tuesday 5.31.11
Eli Pariser The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You What the Ultra-Personalized Internet Is Hiding from You, Good, May 20, 2011 “Most of us assume that when we google a term, we all see the same results—the ones that the company’s famous PageRank algorithm suggests are the most authoritative based on other [...]
Read moreTEDxKids raise money for international peers
TEDxKids attendees took their service learning projects international this year. In exchange for attending TEDxKids @SMU free of charge, students are required to complete a service learning project. Two of this year’s groups designed projects that will impact thousands of other kids around the world. Communities in Schools’ GEMS (Girls Exploring Math and Science) participated [...]
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