Torontoist » conferences http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:18:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TEDx Toronto Now Underway Watch live streaming video from tedx at livestream.com Getting underway right now: the TEDx Toronto conference. Inspired by the TED conference, which brings an eclectic collection of thinkers together to discuss their work in ways that are accessible to a general audience, TEDx Toronto is independently organized but working in the same vein. They are [...]

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Photographer Rick Smolan with Natasha Pruss. Last week 600 people attended the 2011 edition of ideacity in the hopes of being inspired. Fifty speakers were each given 20 minutes to share ideas on topics ranging from geneticists’ attempts to increase lifespans to how the development of projectile weapons kick-started human civilization. Some brought new insights, [...]

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