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Looking back and forward: TEDxAms Award winner 2012 [#TEDxAMS Award 2013] 26 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
Just last week we gave you a recap of TEDxAms Award’s 2012 winning idea worth doing ‘Ice from the sky‘. In anticipation of this year’s award, we also want to look back: revisiting former award winners...
Technology at the Amsterdam Central Public Library 25 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm
Growing up I did ‘library hopping’, moving from one small town library to the next whenever I had finished reading everything I wanted to read in the kid’s section. I remember the smells and the lady...
Registrations for the TEDxAmsterdam Award 2013 are open [#TEDxAms Award 2013] 23 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
Registrations for the TEDxAmsterdam Award 2013 are now open! From TEDxAmsterdam 2010 and onwards, we’ve tried to gather the most inspiring and innovative ideas. The TEDxAmsterdam Award is our annual i...
Winner TEDxAms Award 2012 about ‘Ice from the sky’ [#TEDxAms Award 2013] 21 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
About a year ago Marcel Verduyn was on the red spot of TEDxAmsterdam to share ‘Ice from the Sky’ with the world. He later received the TEDxAmsterdam award for best ‘idea worth spreading/doing’ accordi...
Bring on the workplace revolution! 16 Aug 2013 | 04:11 pm
If there is one thing that TED has taught me is that change is good; however, not all change is always good for everybody. Take the issue of employee tenure, in simpler words, keeping employees in you...
Superfluous is the goal: The surprising seeds of a big-data revolution in healthcare 5 Aug 2013 | 05:42 pm
The only way to improve data collection in global health is to remove himself from the center of the universe, Joel Selanikio tells us. Until recently, big data in global health was of a completely di...
Ah, women in technology! 29 Jul 2013 | 11:33 am
Some time ago I was at the bakery. I didn’t have cash on me, so I wanted to pay my bread with my card. Since this is not very common in a bakery, it took the girl behind the counter some time to figur...
How to keep passion in your relationship? 23 Jul 2013 | 03:09 pm
Being crazy in love, you might dangle from the chandeliers, having sex whenever and wherever you can. But some time later you find yourself peeing and clipping your toenails at the same time, wonderin...
Design with Constraints 22 Jul 2013 | 09:55 am
Contrary to common belief, constraints can actually help things move forward. Constraints act like water to flowers; too little and they wither, too much and they drown. Constraints help build focus a...
Pessimism or realism: The future of healthcare costs 10 Jul 2013 | 08:19 pm
“Is technology the answer to the rising costs of healthcare?” (TEDx Maastricht 2011- Wouter Bos) Party pooper, that’s how Wouter Bos, former Dutch Minister of Finance appointed Chairman of the Board ...