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TEDxSalford Highlights
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Fear As Entertainment
Last week, I posted a simple Facebook status asking for someone to recommend a good horror film. I outlined parameters for my personal definition of ‘good’ (no found footage, no terribly-acted films involving possessed children, no independently-moving furniture, that kind of thing) and waited for responses. Some fifty-plus comments later, I had wound up with […] |
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You Can’t Turn A Flight of Stairs Into A Ramp By Smiling At Them
I first read the book Nobody’s Perfect by Hirotada Ototake, a survivor of tetra-amelia syndrome, when I was seven. The cover sported a huge photo of him in his wheelchair with a giant smile on his face. No arms or legs, but he had a giant smile. Reading his memoir, I cried. I was inspired. […] |
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How to Understand the Jargon: Scientists, Drugs and The Ebola Virus
What is science? The Oxford dictionary provides the following explanation: The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. (Oxford dictionary) This definition means: Science includes an endless variety of subjects that scientists can work on. If you are passionate […] |
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“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot! I Can’t Breathe!” Why We STILL Need to Fight Against Racial Profiling
The recent shooting of unarmed black teenager Mike Brown by police offer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, USA, has slashed open the scars of the racial profiling debate. “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” have been the rally cries from the alarmed citizens of Ferguson. Moreover, crowds of protesters gathered in New York to protest the death […] |
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