http://blog.ted.com/2008/02/27/ted2008_what_is/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Sun, 19 May 2013 02:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.ted.com/2008/02/27/ted2008_what_is/comment-page-1/#comment-561 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/02/ted2008_what_is/#comment-561 Thanks for the precis Bruno! What a great opening day feeding our brains, bodies and souls with fondness and thoughts of multiple and ironically ancient homo sapien sapien survival skills so key to our evolving future: 1) the potential to transform into reptilitan mammals that can produce an ancient response mode to cosmic catastrophe (the production of H2S), 2) the capacity to engage an ancient technology (contemplative breath practice) to stimulate restoration of calm and ease in body/brain/mind and 3) the smarts to acknowledge the ancient love of comedy and star-gazing! Peter Ward, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, John Hodgman and Patricia Burchat on the same bill! If that ain’t whole brain futurist wisdom, I don’t know what is! Most Grateful TEDSTERS 2008. Zoom Zoom!

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2008/02/27/ted2008_what_is/comment-page-1/#comment-562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/02/ted2008_what_is/#comment-562 It trailer parts has been suggested that Europe derived its April-fooling from the French. France was brake chamber one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year”s Day (which was already celebrated by many), by decree of Charles IX. This was in 1564, even slack adjuster before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar (See Julian start of the year). Thus power strip the New Year”s gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the truck crane 1st of April became associated with the first day of January, and those who disliked or mobile crane did not hear about the change were fair game for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of road sweeper April. French and Dutch references from 1508 and 1539 respectively describe April Fools” Day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of April.

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