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TED Talks from TEDxMelbourne, 11 Aug 2010
Links to the TED Talks presented at the TEDxMelbourne evening event on 11 August, 2010.
Maurício Buchler: The Evolution of Education Through Entertainment
Mauricio focuses on how the delivery of information online can be made more efficient, more relevant, and more fun through the use of technology. He will demonstrate alternative models of online education, and explain how they can offer accessible, quality, continuously up-to-date information to students.
He will also show how these models can empower educators by enabling them to express their proficiency and specialization, while being appropriately remunerated for it. Ultimately, he will show how customized, wide-spread education can be made viable, and what this outcome represents for us all.
Pat Naughtin’s Saving Millions with the Metric System
Pat Naughtin presents the history of the metric system and then highlights how the different ways which the way we measure things can cost billions of dollars and even endanger our health. Pat is is a world expert on metrication and presents from his incredible experience as a boiler making, through piano building and solar energy, to weaving and wool classing.
TEDxMelbourne Speaker Greg Smith’s: Valuing our Finite Resources
TEDxMelbourne speaker Greg Smith is a commodities trader who travels the world for most of the year seeing first hand the effects of our voracious appetite for out planet finite resources. Greg gives a sobering talk that parallels Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth as a wake up call to dire circumstances that require a radical shift in thinking.
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TEDxMelbourne #3 Speaker: Pat Naughtin, Metrication Matters
Since the beginning of civilisation measurement has been of utmost importance to humans. We all seek clarity and honesty for all our everyday business and personal measurements – especially to do with our health. As a measurement expert, our TEDxMelbourne presenter Pat Naughtin will explain how we got to where we are now, and how we proceed from here. Pat Naughtin has studied measurement in many trades and crafts as well as the professions of agriculture, engineering, and science in several countries. The scope of Pat’s knowledge of measurement ranges from boiler making, through piano building and solar energy, to weaving and wool classing. Pat provides practical advice that is immediately applicable for many business owners in their daily business practices – often with substantial cost-cutting effect.
TEDxMelbourne #3 Speaker: Mauricio Buchler, Interactive Online Education
Mauricio Buchler will be speaking at TEDxMelbourne #3 about online education. More specifically, he will be focusing on how the delivery of information online can be made more efficient, more relevant, and more fun through the use of technology.
TEDx Melbourne Speaker: Al Gore of Commodities
Our special live TEDx guest speaker is Greg Smith of Global Commodities.
Greg Smith is a commodities trader, CEO of Global Commodities and regular keynote speaker at global industry events. He has a unique understanding and insight into societies relentless appetite for the limited resources left on the planet. He details what this means for us today and in 50 years time
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