This week, the great CBC radio show Quirks & Quarks convened nine Canadian scientists and one science fiction writer to speculate on 10 ways the world could end. You be the judge: Is their list scarier than Stephen Petranek’s (watch his TEDTalk)?
Canada's opinion on the 10 ways the world could end
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6 art installations by Candy Chang that make the viewer part of the piece
TED Fellow Candy Chang creates art installations that are interactive, in a chalk and marker sense of the word. In this talk given at TEDGlobal 2012, Candy gave an emotional glimpse at the installation “Before I Die I Want To _______,” which she created last year in her neighborhood in New Orleans. Inspired by the […]
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TED Weekends explores the catharsis of revealing secrets
In 2004, Frank Warren began a massive undertaking: he distributed 3,000 blank postcards and invited strangers to share their secrets with him. This project grew into PostSecret.com – which now holds more than half a million secrets. Warren found that this initiative reveals our common fears, hopes, loves and desires – which are otherwise invisible. […]
Cory Robertson commented on Dec 9 2008
There is a typo in the url to the cbc.ca.
Click here (or copy url) to get to the article:
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/08-09/qq-2008-12-06.html