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From `How’ to `Who’

Personalized medicine, an inconvenient truth?!  At the beginning of the 21th century, we can figure out which individual people can get which illness. And more targeted, which treatment is most suitable for the individual who is sick. This is called

By Eveliene Mant… on February 20, 2012 0 comments

Three strikes and you’re … in

All the TEDx events in the world – and that are quite a lot these days – produce a lot of talks, free to watch for everyone on the internet. On TED.com a selection of the best TED and TEDx talk is placed online. For a TEDx speaker this is

By Marcel Wortel on February 15, 2012 0 comments

Listen to what Buddy says

When I feel really miserable – like when someone I loved just died, or when my bike has been stolen for the third time in one week – I lay myself down on the floor and play the Benedictus from Mozart’s’  requiem. It’s my cure for a

By Marije Eldere… on February 13, 2012 0 comments

Zijn er té veel TEDx events in Nederland? (leuke poll van Bas vd Haterd)

Vandaag poste Bas vd Haterd een poll op LinkedIn om inzicht te geven op deze vraag. Gewoon een mooi en interessant vraagstuk, leuk te zien welke mix aan reacties en stemmen hier uit gaat komen. Vul hem hier even in (na inloggen met je LinkedIn accoun

By Lucien Engelen on February 12, 2012 0 comments

Show me your poo and I will tell you who you are …

Some uses of social technologies and big data are really surprising. When you collect lots of information about DNA and diseases it is logical that you can identify certain DNA sequences that pose an extra risk. I came across the site my.microbes.eu

By Martijn Kriens on February 10, 2012 0 comments

TEDxMaastricht, wat verwacht jij er van ?

Ik krijg natuurlijk vaak de vraag waarom wij een TEDx hebben opgezet rondom “the Future of Health” en al helemaal waarom wij dat als UMC St Radboud in Maastricht hebben gedaan. Eerste antwoord is : de uitdaging voor de zorg zijn zo ongelooflijk g

By Lucien Engelen on February 9, 2012 0 comments

So, What R U Waiting for ?

Filmmaker Peter Nicks, one of our guest speakers for April 2nd, has released the official trailer for The Waiting Room, a documentary film he produced and directed that explores the daily struggle of patients and caregivers as they pass through the w

By Lucien Engelen on February 9, 2012 0 comments

Short teaser “the Future of Health” online

One of the first teasers for TEDxMaastricht is ready and set online today. It resembles our vision in words that together build “the Future of Health” we think. Is was made by our partner Take the Wind form Portugal, there is more where t

By Lucien Engelen on February 8, 2012 0 comments

Harnessing the shameless internet

Hatemails, the online exchange of child pornography, facebook updates with pictures of yourself being drunk, websites where people get bashed or blackmailed because they undressed themselves in front of a webcam or for no reason at all. The internet

By Wouter Wolters on February 7, 2012 0 comments

Wat verwacht JIJ van TEDxMaastricht 2012 ?

Op de Skipr Community rondom TEDxMaastricht antwoord op 2 veel gestelde vragen  : 1. Waarom eigenlijk een TEDx over de “Future of Health” ? 2. Waarom organiseert een UMC uit Nijmegen een congres in Maastricht ? Daarnaast de vraag aan JOU

By Lucien Engelen on February 7, 2012 0 comments