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Inventor and entrepreneur Avi Yaron speaking about the importance of emotional health at TEDxAms2015.
At one time or another, almost everyone has asked the question: where’s my phone? BigQuestions asked at TEDxAmsterdam 2015.
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The Dutch National Research Agenda (Nationale Wetenschapsagenda) has collected more than 11,700 questions from the Dutch public. Some of the questions require years of research, others can be readily answered. TEDxAms2015
Mark Dingemanse is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics who is interested in how people use language in everyday life — from sharing information to building social relations. In September 2015 he and his colleagues won an Ig Nobel Prize for his work which shows that ‘Huh?’may well be a universal word used when people miss what someone has just said.
A PIPS:lab production always surprises and is totally self-made. The computer is their mixing tool, blending music, theatre, film and a healthy dose of comedy into innovative performances and interactive installations. They produce their own software, hardware, music tracks, stories, and visuals. But no PIPS:lab production is ever complete without the input of the audience.
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Ad Vingerhoets, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University, believes that emotional tears have played an important role in our evolution and still serve important functions. TEDxAms2015