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TED: Ideas worth spreading

If you haven't heard of TED well you should. It is a non-profit organization and the first TED conference was hosted in 1984 with the intention of bringing together leaders in the fields of Technology, Entertainment, and Design.

Their motto: Ideas worth spreading "Our mission: Spreading ideas. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other." taken from TED - About

TED puts on two huge conferences each year, one called TED, is in Long Beach, California, while the other TED Global is held in Edinburgh, Scotland. In addition to these two conferences there are TEDx events. TEDx Events are independently organized events with the same goal as TED.

"TEDx was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading." The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level." - taken from About TEDx

So now you're probably asking, is there a TEDx Guelph? And the answer...

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TEDxGuelphU actually has an upcoming event called Perceiving Past the Paradigm. So... what do they mean when they say that...

"The theme for this year's TEDxGuelphU conference is **Perceiving Past the Paradigm**. We aim to challenge mainstream boundaries, beliefs, practices and actions by directing our thoughts and conversations towards doing and seeing things differently. When we Perceive Past the Paradigm we will push ourselves to the next level of discovery."

Call me crazy, but I think that Perceiving Past the Paradigm is one of the main objectives of these two Media Studies courses.

The event is held on February 12th, 2012, between 10:30am and 4:00pm There is limited seating, 150 spots. You need to fill out a short application if you want to attend in person. If you are selected you will be notified and the ticket'll cost you $20. The application is available January 16th till January 20th at midnight.

If you don't get to be there in person then you can watch a live webcast on the TEDxGuelphU website during the same time.

Hope you find this half as interesting as I do,

Will

Some of my favorite TED talks are:

Larry Lessig - The Law is Strangling Creativity Brian Cox - CERN's supercollider

More info about TED: TED wikipedia  [|TED]