Vint Cerf Invites You To PacINET 2008

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PacINET 2008 is the biggest regional INET and the first ICT conference in the Pacific Islands. It is organized by the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (www.picisoc.org). Dr Vinton G. Cerf is a founding member of the Internet Society and is a friend of the Pacific Islands. PacINET 2008 is in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 1st to 5th September 2008.

New thinking on the climate crisis | Al Gore

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In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right. Gore’s stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates’ climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.

Questioning the universe | Stephen Hawking

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http://www.ted.com Professor Stephen Hawking asks some big questions about our universe — How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? — and discusses how we might go about answering them.

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