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2013-10-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧

マラソンで平和を築く

May El-Khalil: Making peace is a marathon - YouTube I come from Lebanon, and I believe that running can change the world. I know what I have just said is simply not obvious. You know, Lebanon as a country has been once destroyed by a long …

人生で良い終わりを迎えるためにするべきこと

Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end ... What would be a good end of life? And I'm talking about the very end. I'm talking about dying. We all think a lot about how to live well. I'd like to talk about increasing our chances of …

真実を暴く潜入ジャーナリズム

Anas Aremeyaw Anas: How I named, shamed and ... I am sorry I cannot show you my face, because if I do, the bad guys will come for me. My journey started 14 years ago. I was a young reporter. I had just come out of college. Then I got a sco…

いまだにマラリアを撲滅できない3つの理由

Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we still haven't gotten rid ... So over the long course of human history, the infectious disease that's killed more humans than any other is malaria. It's carried in the bites of infected mosquitos, and it's probably …

我が子の病気から学んだ人生の教訓

Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli: In our baby ... Francesca Fedeli: Ciao. So he's Mario. He's our son. He was born two and a half years ago, and I had a pretty tough pregnancy because I had to stay still in a bed for, like, eight mo…

1セント硬貨がもたらした幸福

Tania Luna: How a penny made me feel like a ... I'm five years old, and I am very proud. My father has just built the best outhouse in our little village in Ukraine. Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearl…

3Dプリンタでつくるジャンボジェット機

Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet? - YouTube What do we know about the future? Difficult question, simple answer: nothing. We cannot predict the future. We only can create a vision of the future, how it might be, a vision which reve…

人の注意力を操る妙技

2ちゃんねるで世界最高のスリ師と話題になっていたので取り上げてみました。 Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection - YouTube Do you think it's possible to control someone's attention? Even more than that, what about predicting human behavior?…