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A virtual game you play in the real world. People will meet in Lausanne on this Saturday to play.

The joy comes in the pursuit

A taste

We need to take time to think. We need to avoid external stimuli and spend time with our thoughts. We desire to move and to achieve which drives the economy forward at the cost of forgetting to give ourselves times. The talk explores time and space. It also explores the popular concept of going offline to recharge. In my experience moving from one social network to another has the same impact as taking a social media break but this after 20 years of trial and error.

A charismatic fourteen year old speaks about how he did some research, got some money approved and then ordered and built a nuclear fusion reactor in a classroom

Taking sound samples from around CERN a flow machine was used to make music. It sounds like music you’d expect to hear at L’Usine in Geneva. It is interesting to see how the audience get up and start to dance.

I like that I can watch days of television series and that I can’t spend 90 minutes watching films. Television series are about people, places and situations and the characters are realistic. In contrast films are superficial, shallow and too full of special effects for a story to be told. The cinema loses out because it is too superficial, too pretentious without offering something contrast at the end of the donated time.

Having ten billion people to feed will have consequences.

Every day I walk around with my TEDxCERN lanyard. TEDxCERN, for me, was an opportunity to listen to seventeen talks in one afternoon without being bored or distracted. Some people spoke well, others were charismatic and one or two were pitching rather than talking. That didn’t matter. I enjoyed the event and felt inspired. As the videos are available I will share one of these videos per day until I run out.

 Learning judo is important. Some people choose to learn this martial art as soon as they can stand on two legs.