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August 1, 2013

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Hacking The Senses

Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind. But after implanting a prosthetic 'eyeborg' device in his head that allows him to literally hear color, he's been able to experience the world in ways we've never imagined. Watch his fascinating talk.

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Hacking Our Senses

Neil Harbisson,  07/26/2013

Artist

2013-07-25-harbissonpull.jpgI don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology. I don't perceive my antenna as a device, I perceive it as a part of my body, I perceive it as an organ.
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Hacking Our Senses

Ben Thomas,  07/26/2013

Founder, The Connectome

Could we create completely new senses unlike anything in human experience? What would it be like to experience such senses?
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Hacking Our Senses

Larry Strauss,  07/26/2013

Veteran high school teacher and coach, writer

I'd never imagined blues like that -- upbeat and exquisite. It seemed somehow to give a nod to all of life's sadness without giving in to any of it.
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Hacking Our Senses

Chantal Sicile-Kira,  07/25/2013

Author, 'A Full Life With Autism'; Founder, AutismCollege.co...

One morning Jeremy woke up with a big grin on his face. He spelled out on his letterboard, "I dreamt I painted your personality and I have to say it was purple and very lively."
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Camille Seaman,  07/19/2013

Photographer

2013-07-18-seamanpull.jpgThe underlying goal of my work is to help trigger an emotional connection, one that I hope will spark a relationship between the viewer and this planet.
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Charles Redfern,  07/24/2013

"New Evangelical" writer; minister in conflict transformatio...

Camille Seaman sees interconnection while chasing storms. I value that, but I felt something different in the summer of 1980 -- perhaps because the storms hounded me.
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Carter Roberts,  07/19/2013

President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund

People will be standing in line to pay money to see what the world used to look like. We must make conscious choices now to save the natural world that sustains us. It starts with connections.
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Michael Brune,  07/23/2013

Executive Director, The Sierra Club

The disruption to our climate is telling us plainly that there are consequences for our hubris in altering the composition of our planet's atmosphere.
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Chris Fici,  07/23/2013

Hindu writer, minister and teacher

The power that Mama Nature has over us is a constant reminder of the dark and the light in our personal spiritual journey.
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Katie Scarlett Brandt,  07/22/2013

Chicago-based writer

As I gripped the steering wheel, my mind formed alternate routes in case the windshield shattered around us. Stories of cow-killing-hail were fresh in my memory, and as we sped through the Badlands, there was nowhere to stop for shelter.
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Tina Gerhardt,  07/20/2013

Independent journalist and academic

2013-01-18-TEDplayvideo.jpg"Change is the one thing that is truly certain and inevitable," Seaman says, "its time we learn to let go and recognize that we are in servitude to each other."
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

J Henry Fair,  07/19/2013

Photographer

We like our steaks and our SUVs, and who wants to be the first to give them up?
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Ben Goldfarb,  07/19/2013

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Sage Magazine

We call beavers ecosystem engineers because they dam rivers and create lakes, but that's peanuts -- who else can change the weather? We wield the power of deities without any of their intentionality or self-awareness.
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

David Dietz,  07/19/2013

Founder, Modavanti

Through the toxic pesticides used in our raw materials to the smog belching from the factories, the storms are becoming demons of destruction. It is no surprise we are experiencing more violent storms than at any point in our history.
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Bill Chameides,  07/19/2013

Dean, Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment

Most Americans will tell you they care about the environment. But an appallingly large fraction don't act on it -- they don't change their lifestyles to lower their environmental footprint and they don't change their voting patterns to affect sustainable change.
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Embrace Nature's Wrath

Jennifer Schwab,  07/19/2013

Chief Sustainability Officer, SCGH.com

Looking at the ominous, grand, dominating, overwhelming skies in her stills makes me think a little deeper about Mother Nature. And realize once again, the score will always be, Mother Nature 1, us zero.
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