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The 2009 TEDGlobal, The Substance of Things Not Seen, was held in Oxford, July 21–24, 2009. 2010's TEDGlobal (again in Oxford) was themed And Now The Good News; in 2011 the conference moved to a new home in Edinburgh and was held July 12–15 with the theme The Stuff Of Life.
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A video of a talk in July 2009 at the TED Global Conference in Oxford, UK about technological improvements in stunts and his forthcoming parachute jump from the edge of space, in his own words, "...the greatest stunt on earth." breaks World's largest Loop the Loop Car Stunt; High Fall Nominated for TV Award Article
Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion. [1] A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith.
In 2009, he spoke about education reform at the TEDx Conference at the EU Parliament. [19] [20] and again at TED Global 2010 where he argued that "Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical," [21] and that "Calculating is the machinery of math - a means to an end."
"The music of a war child" (TEDGlobal 2009) Page at Sonic360 Archived 10 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine; War Child movie; MTV Base Africa profile: Emmanuel Jal; Emmanuel Jal interview by Pete Lewis, Blues & Soul (June 2008) Emmanuel Jal interview by Banning Eyre Archived 22 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Afropop Worldwide (August 2015)
In 2009, she became a founding member of TED Global, the international conference of ideas in Oxford, England. She is also a blogger , a top ten microblogger on the Twitter platform in Turkey and deemed by Forbes.com as among the "top twenty women for entrepreneurs to follow". [ 3 ]
Named a TED Global Fellow in 2009, [5] Meklit has served as an artist-in-residence at New York University, the De Young Museum, and the Red Poppy Art House. Currently a fellow of the Wildflowers Institute, Meklit has also completed musical commissions for the San Francisco Foundation and for theatrical productions staged by Brava!