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TED: Aakash Odedra: A dance in a hurricane of paper, wind and light - Aakash Odedra (2014)

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Choreographer Aakash Odedra is dyslexic and has always felt that his best expression comes through movement. “Murmur” is his ode to that experience. Watch him spin his way through the center of a storm, as pages of books take flight all around him.

This New Microsoft App Highlights The End Of The Windows Empire (MSFT)

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One of the ways Microsoft grew itself into a $87 billion company is by making people pay to use Windows on each device they used. Today, Microsoft quietly announced a new service that radically changes that.  With the geeky sounding name of Microsoft Azure RemoteApp, this app is not a dramatic new technology. In fact, it's a pretty hum-drum tech that's been available for years. It allows business customers to stream any of their Windows apps to any device (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows) over the cloud. The change is how Microsoft will sell it.

TED: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: What veterinarians know that doctors don't - Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (2014)

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What do you call a veterinarian that can only take care of one species? A physician. In a fascinating talk, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz shares how a species-spanning approach to health can improve medical care of the human animal -- particularly when it comes to mental health.

TED: Rainer Strack: The surprising workforce crisis of 2030 -- and how to start solving it now - Rainer Strack (2014)

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It sounds counterintuitive, but by 2030, many of the world's largest economies will have more jobs than adult citizens to do those jobs. In this data-filled -- and quite charming -- talk, human resources expert Rainer Strack suggests that countries ought to look across borders for mobile and willing job seekers. But to do that, they need to start by changing the culture in their businesses.

TED: Ben Saunders: To the South Pole and back — the hardest 105 days of my life - Ben Saunders (2014)

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This year, explorer Ben Saunders attempted his most ambitious trek yet. He set out to complete Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s failed 1912 polar expedition — a four-month, 1,800-mile round trip journey from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole and back. In the first talk given after his adventure, just five weeks after his return, Saunders offers a raw, honest look at this “hubris”-tinged mission that brought him to the most difficult decision of his life.

Social Business Is Rooted In Conversation, Not Platforms

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We have given our lives to social media, no doubt there. In fact, for many social media is omnipresent. No matter what we do – eat at our favorite restaurant, take the kids skating, watch a movie, go grocery shopping, or hop next door to the coffee shop – we are routinely sharing our experiences, [...]
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