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A megaphone for young talent

On November 20, 2010 – Universal Children’s Day – the first TEDx Youth event will take place in the science center NEMO in Amsterdam. TEDxYouth offers a stage for young people who wish to share their vision of the future. There ar

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By TEDx Staff on June 30, 2010

Karsu Dönmez: The girl with the black piano

A beautiful singer with Dutch and Turkish roots, Karsu Dönmez was a wonderful surprise at last year’s TEDxAmsterdam, and her performance was breathtaking. So what’s happened since then? “TEDx was such a great experience for me. Usually lectur

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By Ellen Bokkinga on June 21, 2010

Priority: people and ideas, says TEDx Program Director

The best things in life happen seemingly without a purpose. When Monique was an intern at the European Institute for the Media 20 years ago, she was asked to step in when a colleague fell ill, and produce the European Television and Film Forum in Sev

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By Oliver de Leeuw on June 18, 2010

TEDx connexions: David Vogel

TEDxAmsterdam doesn’t only work hard to create an extraordinary speaker line-up; but the audience too is a veritable petri dish of dynamic and innovative sorts. The diverse audience of CEOs, scientists, creatives and philanthropists (and over 4,500

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By Lieke Voermans on June 14, 2010

Marcel Dicke and the critters that go ‘crunch’

If Prof. Marcel Dicke of the Laboratory of Entomology at Wageningen UR, has the final word, we would change our daily menu and add some insect delicacies to it. He suggests eating crispy grasshoppers instead of shrimps, and juicy dragonfly larvae in

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By Ellen Bokkinga on June 7, 2010

Big ideas, grand designs

A range of pundits, from trend forecasters and futurists to authors and spiritualists – even devotees of the Mayan calendar – will tell you that we’re in the throes of a paradigm shift. In this contemporary age, they say, we’re trans

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By Sasha Naod on June 3, 2010