I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.
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Ingress on Saturday in Lausanne from 1000 onwards.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA taste
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Pico Iyer: The art of stillness
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe need to take time to think. We need to avoid external stimuli and spend time with our thoughts. We desire to move and to achieve which drives the economy forward at the cost of forgetting to give ourselves times. The talk explores time and space. It also explores the popular…
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How I built a nuclear reactor at the age of 13 | Jamie Edwards | TEDxCERN
Reading Time: < 1 minute A charismatic fourteen year old speaks about how he did some research, got some money approved and then ordered and built a nuclear fusion reactor in a classroom
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Performance — the LHC remix | Tim Exile | TEDxCERN
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTaking sound samples from around CERN a flow machine was used to make music. It sounds like music you’d expect to hear at L’Usine in Geneva. It is interesting to see how the audience get up and start to dance.
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On Film and Television
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI like that I can watch days of television series and that I can’t spend 90 minutes watching films. Television series are about people, places and situations and the characters are realistic. In contrast films are superficial, shallow and too full of special effects for a story to be told. The…
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10 Billion People for Dinner
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHaving ten billion people to feed will have consequences.
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The Weirdness of Water
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery day I walk around with my TEDxCERN lanyard. TEDxCERN, for me, was an opportunity to listen to seventeen talks in one afternoon without being bored or distracted. Some people spoke well, others were charismatic and one or two were pitching rather than talking. That didn’t matter. I enjoyed the event…
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Start judo as young as you can.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Learning judo is important. Some people choose to learn this martial art as soon as they can stand on two legs.
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First Saturday in Lausanne
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst Saturday in Lausanne Now that we are between the via ferrata season and the snowboarding and scuba diving season a distraction is provided by gamers who like to use the physical world and mobile phones. Dear Ingress agents of Lausanne and elsewhere, The first Saturday of December (06/12/14), our city will…