Archive for the ‘TED’ Category

Understanding the Chinese

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

We have to face more competition from the east and should start being less arrogant and ignorant. And we should prepare that the dominance of the western civilization will end sooner than we think.

La-La-Land vs Reality

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I regularily check the videos feed of TED, a platform for interesting, yet sometimes remarkable talks. A good friend once told me about this site and I'm always astonished how many mind-boggling individuals share their ideas and thinkings there. When I wrote about Saul Griffith and his website WattzOn! a ...

wattzOn!

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

The average American uses 11400 Watts of power continuously. This is the equivalent of burning 114 x100 Watt light bulbs, all the time. The average person globally uses 2255 Watts of power, or a little less than 23 x100 Watt light bulbs. These sentences are taken out of the introduction from ...