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TEDx Talk: What we learned from 5 million books

I discovered the Google Ngram Viewer from this TED Talk by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel who are both fellows at Harvard University and Visiting Faculty at Google. They created the tool to analyse the millions of books being digitised by Google to allow them to search for cultural trends. Using the Ngram Viewer would certainly ...

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Benjamin Zander on Music and Passion

05.13.2011 · Posted in TED, film, music, passion, speaking

Today I have been in a primary school in Sunderland involved in an ambitious project involving TED talks. It made me recal this wonderful example of a passionate person speaking from the heart about something they hold dear. Benjamin Zander has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra since 1979. [he] has two infectious ...

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