Reporting from TEDx: replaying Darwins journey + the circus as conference
Sarah Darwin talks about Darwin's journey replayed today Like the usual family pressure is not enough, having Charles Darwin as your great great grandfather must hardly be an easy feat. That said, rather than hide from it, Sarah Darwin embraces it openly and audaciously retraces the “emotional” journe, as she calls it, of the HMS Beagle. A biologist herself, Sarah describes how she and her family set sail round the world on the Dutch clipper Stad-Amsterdam, starting at the same port where Charles Darwin embarked around 178 years ago... Check out the TEDx website for more: Sarah Darwin: Following in your footsteps great great granddaddy! AND Peter van Lindonk's talk on demanding creativity as ground for unity for stimulating ideas It’s about time someone added chutzpah into conferences! Aren’t most conferences about remembering the lines but forgetting the theatre of it all? Peter van Lindonk, the co-founder of the annual PINC-Conference, knows this better than most people as he...