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TEDx Amazonia: Culture, Ecology, Amazonia, Part 2

Antonio Nobrega opens the event with a beautiful performance.

Nelida Silva dances to open day two of the conference.

Part 1: intro to TED, my speech at the conference

Part 2: Highlights of other TEDx Amazonia Talks, especially from Amazonians

Part 3: Critical look at the Entrepreneurially Minded TED speakers

Each […]

TEDx Amazonia: Quality of Life for All Species, Part 1

Part 1: intro to TED, my speech at the conference Part 2: Highlights of other TEDx Amazonia Talks, especially from Amazonians Part 3: Critical look at the Entrepreneurially Minded TED speakers

I was so annoyed that I improvised an opening lament/complaint about it when I gave my Talk in the first of six […]

Drought in the Amazon!

From the plane: the meeting point of the Rio Negro and Rio Solimoes, which going east from here become the Amazon River.

Famously, the yellow muddy Rio Solimoes and the dark clear Rio Negro come together at this point where Manaus is, but the two waters don't mix much for a […]