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Tweet This was one of the best moments in my life! Being with the F1 car atop the Khardung La – the highest motorable road in the world! Thanks RedBull for the opportunity! Senthilkumar
Tweet So that’s billed as a big fight! Infact one of the twitterati that I follow named it as bitch fight. One TVC and three months later another series to give it back in their own words or say giving a taste of their own medicine. Well I am talking about the big fight between [...]
Tweet What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading. TODAY: From 11:30am-1:30pm EDT, Hans Rosling [...]
Tweet MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son’s life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch “gaaaa” slowly turn into “water.” Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how [...]
Tweet Another talk, really cool one on how kids can change the world…and its infectious by any standard. Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: “I can.” Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their parents. [...]
Tweet In the series that I had been following, today the mailbox had a newlwtter fron TED.com Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India’s slums by looking past the daunting statistics and focusing on [...]
Tweet I remember when Amit Varma wrote about this speech in his review of TED India, he was saying how this lady didnt make any tantrums about her story and how she was actually helping people come out and make a life for themselves. This video is marked for violent graphical images, but I think [...]
Tweet Not been blogging for quite sometime except been looking at nice TED India Videos. Looks like lot of thing are happening. There are violent protests out there on the streets of Hyderabad. Looks like the parties concerned are not going to give in that easily, be it the congress or the TRS. One thing [...]