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Arts administrator and live-theatre fan Ben Cameron looks at the state of the live arts, asking: “How can the magic of live theatre, live music, live dance compete with the always-on Internet?” He offers a bold look forward.
Tags: American Theatre Wing Biography, Arts administrator, Ben Cameron, bold look forward, building strong arts organisations, comicStyle, compete with Internet, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Gail Penney, grants programme, Ideas worth spreading, lifeStyle, live dance, live music, live-theatre fan, main blog, Metropolitan radio broadcasts, mindStyle matters, New York, opera quiz, penneylane, penneylaneonline, Programme Director, supporting national arts organisations, Ted Talk, The true power of the Performing Arts, Tony Awards Nominating Committee, turnStyle, VidStyle, www.penneylaneonline.com
In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. Jane Chen shows us an invention that could keep millions of these infants warm, a design that’s safe, portable, low-cost and life-saving.
Tags: A warm embrace that saves lives, access to incubators, central china, CEO of Embrace, children affected by AIDS, co-founder, comicStyle, developing world, Embrace infant warmer, Gail Penney, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Ideas worth spreading, incubators, intuitive to use, invention, Jane Chen, life-saving, lifeStyle, low cost, low-cost infant warmer, main blog, management consultant, mindStyle matters, no electricity, no moving parts, non profit organisation, penneylane, penneylaneonline, portable, premature babies, Programme Director of Chi Heng Foundation, Public Administration, safe design, safe to use, social enterprise, Ted Talk, traditional incubators, turnStyle, VidStyle, vulnerable babies, warm babies, www.penneylaneonline.com
In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine and then beyond to the projected peak-oil end game.
Tags: 000 Year Gallery, about the world, Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, changes of the world, comicStyle, curate, Edward Burtynsky, expanding footprint, Gail Penney, house art, Ideas worth spreading, Imax film, impact of humanity, jolie-laide, large-format photographs, lifeStyle, Long Now Foundation, main blog, major museum collections, Manufactured Landscapes, Meet the Greens, mindStyle matters, mountains of tyres, Museum of Modern Art in New York, nickel mine, our place in the world, path of oil, path of oil through modern society, penneylane, penneylaneonline, Photographs the landscape of oil, pipeline to car engine, powerful images, preserved through carbon transfers, productive worldwide conversation, projected peak-oil endgame, reflect attitudes, reshaping planet surface, rivers of bright orange waste, scarred landscapes, stunning, Sundance, sustainable living, Ted Talk, The 10, Toronto Film Festival, turnStyle, ugly, VidStyle, way we think, wellhead to pipeline, WorldChanging.com, www.penneylaneonline.com
Think of penguins as ocean sentinels, says Dee Boersma, they’re on the frontlines of sea change. Sharing stories of penguin life and culture, she suggests that we start listening to what penguins are telling us.
Tags: birds in tuxes, comicStyle, conservation efforts, data, Dee Boersma, environmental threats, frontlines, Gail Penney, Ideas worth spreading, lifeStyle, local conservation, main blog, marine ecosystems, mindStyle matters, moving oil tanker lanes, nametags, numbered metal bands, ocean sentinels, Pay attention to penguins, penguin culture, penguin life, Penguin Project, penneylane, penneylaneonline, sea change, South Atlantic, Ted Talk, turnStyle, VidStyle, Wildlife Conservation Society's Penguin Project, www.penneylaneonline.com
Photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that’s touching off a global medical crisis.
Tags: 2007 TED Prize, Bosnia, Brazil, Chechnya, comicStyle, conflicts, contract photographer TIME Magazine, critical social issues, digital era, document the struggles, documenting wars, El Salvador, exciting uses of news photography, famine in Somalia, Gail Penney, Guatemala, Ideas worth spreading, in the same intimate space, India, Indonesia, intention, Israel, James Nachtwey, Kosovo, Lebanon, lifeStyle, main blog, middle of conflict, mindStyle matters, Nicaragua, penneylane, penneylaneonline, record the truth, Romania, Romanian orphanages, Russia, Rwanda, Searing Photo's of War, self-financed trips, sense of closeness, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, stir people to action, struggles of humanity, subjects inhabit, Sudan, Ted Talk, telling the story, Thailand, the Philippines, the West Bank and Gaza, turnStyle, United States., VidStyle, viewer, wake people up, War photographer, www.penneylaneonline.com
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