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Great inspiration - David Eggers TED 2008 wish

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Inspiration, Life Changing, TED

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The folks at TED are busy getting video from previous years up online while working on the video from this years conference.  They’re doing a great job and just the other day posted this video which introduced me to [...]

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Humpback Whale inspired fan blades

March 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Environment, GreenTech, Inspiration, Nature

Picture by Tannis Toohey/Toronto StarWhalePower Corp. is a Toronto based company who with the help of nature has developed a more efficient fan blade.  Scientists in the US have long studied whales and found that the tubercles on the Humpback Whales fins create 32% less drag and 8% more lift then the smooth fins found [...]

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Weekly Inspiration: Joseph Lekuton

March 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Inspiration, TED

This is an amazing man named Joseph Lekuton was born to the Maasai tribe in Northern Kenya and is now a teacher, writer, and member of the Kenya parliment.  Mr. Lekuton is also a great inspiration to me and I’m glad to share his video with you.  The story that he has been part of [...]

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