Heart Attack performance
Iglesias performs Heart Attack on the Today show from his album Sex and Love.
Sara Lewis
Lewis, a scientist and professor at Tufts University, gives her audience a glimpse into the lives of fireflies. In her lecture she discusses the strange nature of firefly behavior: including elaborate flash dances, predatory eavesdropping and deceit, and the female “firefly vampire”.
The luminous displays are actually the silent love songs of male fireflies. They’re flying and flashing their hearts out. I still find it very romantic.
Nicholas Negroponte
Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Lab, leads a talk on the last 30 years of technology. He also introduces his newest project – “One Laptop per Child”. Negroponte states that he has a desire to create wireless laptop computers that cost around $100 and see that they are given out to children in developing countries.
We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. With access to this type of tool, children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and create together. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
Karima Bennoune
Bennoune, the daughter of an outspoken Algerian professor that fought death threats for standing up against terrorism, presents four stories of men and women fighting against fundamentalism. People that are standing up for their faith and not allowing it to be used as a tool for violence and crime.
David Kwong
Kwong, a New York Times crossword puzzle creator and “illusion designer” specializing in film and television, presents a lecture on the human’s primal instinct to “solve”, discussing the relationship between puzzles and magic, the need to create order out of chaos.
I believe that magic and puzzles are the same thing, so I am trying to create this new breed of illusion and enigmas.
David Chalmers
Chalmers, explores the state of human consciousness and attempts to explain it as a movie that takes place in one’s mind. He states that he believes there is not a physical, scientific explanation for the human consciousness but rather argues that the mind is not confined to skin or skull, but plausibly may extend beyond them.
Shih Chieh Huang
Huang speaks on his various forms of art and his goal of giving people an experience to explore. In his talk he shows a helmet that records the movement of the eye, and then uses the blinks to turn on and off a nightlight. He also shows a large bioluminescent sculpture made from bottles, tupperware and garbage bags that moves and acts like a giant, bioluminescent sea creature.
The objects are dissected and disassembled as needed and reconstructed into experimental primitive organisms that reside on the fringes of evolutionary transformation: computer cooling fans are repurposed for locomotion. Tupperware serves as a skeletal framework; guitar tuner rewired to detect sound; and automatic night lights become a sensory input.
MTV Woodie Awards performance
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Automatic performance
Lambert performs Automatic at the Grand Ole Opry 40th anniversary celebration.
House That Built Me performance
Lambert performs her single, House That Built Me at the Grand Ole Opry 40th anniversary celebration.
Home performance
Shelton performs his single, Home with Lambert at the Grand Ole Opry 40th anniversary celebration.
Honey Bee performance
Shelton performs his single, Honey Bee, at the Grand Ole Opry’s 40 year celebration.
Jim Holt
Writer and philosopher, Jim Holt, talks about the origins of the question “Why does the universe exist?” and the path that has been taken by theorists to answer it.
So I’m going to talk about the mystery of existence, the puzzle of existence, where we are now in addressing it, and why you should care, and I hope you do care.
Isabel Allende
Allende presents a challenge to her audience – that they live a life of passion, no matter what they’re age. Allende talks about some of the fears that she has faced herself as she’s aged and about the choice that she made to make sure that her life was lived fully and without regrets for what might have been.
And, on a final note, retirement in Spanish is jubilación. Jubilation. Celebration. We have paid our dues. We have contributed to society. Now it’s our time, and it’s a great time.Unless you are ill or very poor, you have choices. I have chosen to stay passionate,engaged with an open heart. I am working on it every day. Want to join me?
Shubhendu Sharma
Shubhendu Sharma, a reforestation expert, presents a lecture on a method that he has devised that has allowed for the process of the regrowth of forests to take place ten times faster than would be seen in the natural world. Because of this he says that he is hopeful that there might be hope for the destroyed forests to thrive once again.
This methodology, I believe, has a potential. By sharing, we can actually bring back our native forests.
Zak Ebrahim
Zak Ebrahim, the son of one of the terrorists that planned the attack on the World Trade Centers, presents a talk on how a person that is brought up in a world of violence and dogma can choose another path. Despite being groomed for a life of hatred, he talks about how he chose another direction for his life and how others can do the same.
For the victims of terrorism, I will speak out against these senseless acts and condemn my father’s actions. And with that simple fact, I stand here as proof that violence isn’t inherent in one’s religion or race, and the son does not have to follow the ways of his father. I am not my father.
Uldus Bakhtiozina
Photographer and artist, Uldus Bakhtiozina, presents a lighthearted talk on her native home in Russia. Using photography, she pokes fun and shows the audience how we should never take ourselves too seriously.
I’m 27 years old. For Russian society, I’m an old maid and hopeless to ever get married. That’s why you see me in a Mexican fighter mask, in the wedding dress, all desperate in my garden. But remember, irony is the key, and this is actually to motivate girls to fight for goals, for dreams, and change stereotypes.
I Do performance
Goss performs his single I Do on The Queen Latifah Show from his album Life You Imagine.
WUT performance
Le1f performs Wut during The Late Show with David Letterman to promote his album Review.
Misty Copeland dance performance
Misty Copeland performs ballerina on The Arsenio Hall Show in Los Angeles, California.
