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Follow-up: Worldmoon

Probably the most groundbreaking idea on TEDxAmsterdam 2010 was Martine de Wit's Worldmoon. Read all about the science and the fiction of this idea.

By Tim Jansen on November 3, 2011

General Peter van Uhm, Chief of Defence

Peter van Uhm was born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 1955. In 1972, after his secondary education, he attended the Infantry officer training course at the Royal Military Academy in Breda. After training, he was assigned as platoon commander to 48

By Monique van Dusseld… on October 10, 2011

Barry Schwartz, Idea Technology

Barry Schwartz, Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College Barry Schwartz is a psychologist and author of numerous articles and books on the subject of wisdom and contemporary society. He is the D

By Oliver de Leeuw on October 10, 2011

Prof. Eveline Crone

Prof. Eveline Crone is full professor in the Developmental and Educational Psychology Unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. She obtained her master’s degree in developmental psychology from the University of Amsterdam, based on

By Oliver de Leeuw on October 10, 2011

Pep Rosenfeld

Pep Rosenfeld, co-founder and artistic director at Boom Chicago Pep Rosenfeld is one of the founders of Boom Chicago, Artistic Director and co-creator of their current productions ‘Social Media Circus’ and ‘9/11 Forever.’

By Oliver de Leeuw on October 10, 2011

Gary Wolf, Self-knowledge through numbers

Gary Wolf, contributing editor Wired magazine, co-founder Quantified Self Gary Wolf is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, where he writes regularly about the culture of science and technology. He is also the co-founder (with W

By Oliver de Leeuw on October 10, 2011

Alan McSmith, Wilderness is not a place… it’s a way of life

Alan McSmith, nature guide and founder of Wilderness Vision Alan McSmith is the founder of Wilderness Vision, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of the wild. For over 20 years he has served as a professional guide, having walked

By Oliver de Leeuw on October 10, 2011

Dr. ir. David Lentink, Nature-inspired flight: beyond the leap

Dr. ir. David Lentink, Assistant Professor, Experimental Zoology Group Wageningen University and Associate Concord Field Station at Harvard University. David Lentink works in the experimental zoology group at Wageningen University. For his PhD (Cum l

By Oliver de Leeuw on October 10, 2011

Esra’a Al-Shafei, Creating New Visions of the Middle East

Esra’a Al Shafei, founder and Executive Director of MideastYouth.com Esra’a Al Shafei is the founder and Executive Director of MideastYouth.com whose mission is to amplify diverse and progressive voices advocating for chan

By Oliver de Leeuw on October 10, 2011

Henkjan Honing, We’re all musical creatures

Prof. dr Henkjan Honing holds a KNAW-Hendrik Muller chair in Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam and conducts his research under the auspices of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), and the University o

By Oliver de Leeuw on October 10, 2011