from Ashoka Fellows to exemplify these characteristics. "Rippling " has won two big awards, including the 2013 Nautilus Award and the 2013 "Inc. Magazine"-sponsored Axiom Business Book Award.
in the online virtual world known as second life Mr soda's screen character or Avatar is a four-legged Centaur with a Rippling human torso in the arms and head of James Bond actor Daniel Craig the instant I saw him I fell in love said the bride I'm a huge D and D girl plus I love Daniel Craig you should see her Avatar said the groom it's a dolphin
So whatever we could do to extend that healing, love, and touch to that child's family could have a rippling , healing impact on the child with illness, on the diagnosed child. And one of the times that that came screaming out loud was in the last 10 years or so, we
Just by the nature of space and time, everything gets stretched and squeezed into an infinitely thin line. It's a rippling geometry.
are what I call cave lines, representing the tunnels that Chiang Kai-Shek had his nationalist army carve through the mountains when they came to Taiwan. "Stones pace the ripplings. Shapes sweep the flows.
we started talking from the New York Times that said, "A Democratic Socialist lost in Wisconsin shows the movement's surging wave might crash before rippling out from big cities." Is that wrong? Oh, I love that. Look, people are going to have their their opinions. I'll just say it like this.
enterprise in Columbus, Ohio to try and really lessen the dependence on Taiwanese chip-makers 50 years later. We got to understand that and the rippling effect of that $1 billion investment in Columbus could go to all the communities. So I think, for me, is just, one, being a part of the ongoing discussion between generations of people of color to understand how the game is played,
These are black holes with masses that are 20, 30, 40 times the mass of our sun. And the gravitational waves sort of rippling out from this epic collision are about 1,000th the size of a proton when it comes to how much they squeeze or stretch spacetime.
Again, it transforms an impulse into a choice. You actually send out a rippling wave of self-contained energy to those around you who want to emulate that.
And it's my pleasure to introduce Beverly Schwartz. Beverly is the author of "Rippling : How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World." And she is also the vice president of global marketing for Ashoka, where she currently leads a program and a partnership with The MasterCard Foundation to help fund innovative solutions
It's a hump, and then it ripples off to infinity in both directions. Well, that rippling off to infinity in both directions bit, we can't deal with that in the real world. We have to have things of finite width.
So much so, that even California took it off that famous list of chemicals known to California. But that un-banning of saccharin is still rippling throughout the world. So this is a seemingly identical packet of Sweet 'N Low, but this one's from Canada.
But in the short history of the internet, I would argue that we've reached a critical turning point. And it's because while the positive side of cyberspace is rippling out, so too are the risks, the negative side. There's all sorts of ways you can illustrate this.
and public sectors on issues from drug prevention and smoking prevention to gender equity and education. About the book, "Rippling " is described as a blueprint for visionary thinking about how to tackle the world's biggest social and environmental challenges. She draws on examples of empathy, innovation, creativity, passion, and persistence to make real change in the world and pulls case studies
Many times they give up a profession, a fair amount of money, because there's something that makes them tick differently. And now you know part of why I wrote "Rippling " was because I needed to analyze that. I needed to research it.
Now, Nikita Khrushchev was premier when John F. Kennedy was our president of the United States. So my wish for today is that when you read "Rippling " and you close the book, you're inspired the way I am speaking to Francois and to all
I think that's the fourth least happy day. This follows on from some work where we looked at happiness impacts sort of rippling over time and space from terrorist incidents
My toes wiggle into the wet, cool sand. The water white froths in, spreads into rippling fans over the sand, then rushes back again and again. A seagull web-walks through the waves, leaps onto a rock, scans the water for food.
X-rays are a form of light, gamma rays are a form of light, infrared, optical, this whole electromagnetic spectrum, none of it is emitted as light. It's completely dark. It's only emitted in the rippling of the shape of space. A lot of times it's likened closer to sound.
At Salem's heart, there's a sort of fairytale or are these rippling sexual undercurrents and a lot of terror.
of monologues written by me that ended up on Broadway so as you can see little moments in our lives have Rippling
And actually, I took-- so here, a question she put out into the world that is now rippling through it again-- and it's one of these transformative questions
And if we can change the lives of these students and how they learn and change lives of these teachers, it's going to have massive rippling positive effects
Cousteau breathed effortlessly, delighted by the distinctive whistle of air when he inhaled, the rippling of the bubbles over his head