Manchester

Manchester

Edinburgh

Or Edinburgh.

I'm from Edinburgh. Worse news, that's even Edinburgh.

Is Edinburgh a horse?

And now he's in Edinburgh.

What will this mean for Edinburgh?

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is named after my neighborhood.

And I then moved back to Edinburgh.

They went to Edinburgh to escape from the summer heat.

And I went up to Manchester to visit a place called Axion Recycling.

Since we're in Edinburgh, I'm a big fan of Conan Doyle.

He was about the most worried man between here and Edinburgh.

And in Edinburgh, the experimental animal we use is the medical student.

And I think I'm the only Scotsman here at the Edinburgh TED.

Edinburgh in summer, the area beneath the curve is pretty good, but Edinburgh in winter, the amount of NO that can be released is next to nothing, tiny amounts.

We're going to drive prejudice throughout Edinburgh, throughout the U.K., for Welsh people.

And once again, in Edinburgh with the wonderful African Children's Choir who I simply adore.

Our site in Edinburgh has had the Scottish parliament issue a motion and support of it.

It's a market town in the north of England, 15,000 people, between Leeds and Manchester, fairly normal market town.

Such red clay is not found within a hundred miles of Edinburgh, except in the botanical gardens.

It's even more difficult in Edinburgh because you have to count all the whisky and the tartan.

They were sent down to find if there was any opportunity for selling shoes, and they wrote telegrams back to Manchester.

I started Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, and I learned very quickly that wherever there are Episcopalians, there's money in very close proximity.

So, just to give you an example of how they did it not Manchester United style promotion, but very Mumbai style promotion.

And as soon as she meets a half Thai, half Canadian young guy from Edinburgh, she recognizes him as kin.

So in the lower right here, you have Dolly, the first cloned sheep now happily stuffed in a museum in Edinburgh

He set up his prosaically entitled newsgroup, bankfrauds yahoo.co.uk before arriving in Britain in 2005 to take a Masters in chemical engineering at Manchester University.

A programmer in Edinburgh and a programmer in Entebbe can both get the same a copy of the same piece of software.

Because now it's become socially not acceptable not to show up to support your children at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild because people think you're bad parents.

Is that what Edinburgh and London and New York are going to look like in 2050, or is it going to be this?

So, one of my most illustrious forebears at Manchester University, Ernest Rutherford, discoverer of the atomic nucleus, once said, All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

You might not know that Conan Doyle went to medical school here in Edinburgh, and his character, Sherlock Holmes, was inspired by Sir Joseph Bell.

And that's because having a son who's unemployed in Manchester is really quite embarrassing, but having a son who's unemployed in Thailand is really viewed as quite an accomplishment.

Henry Briggs, a famous mathematician at Gresham College in London, read Napier's work in 1614, and the following year made the long journey to Edinburgh to meet Napier.

And the very next year, in 1994, we had the conference here in Edinburgh, and I had no opposition in having Tim Berners Lee as the keynote speaker.

So whether you're a yak herder living in the mountains of Chile, whether you're a stockbroker in New York City or whether you're a TEDster living in Edinburgh, the oceans matter.

When we put people under a lamp for the equivalent of about 30 minutes of sunshine in summer in Edinburgh, what we produced was, we produced a rise in circulating nitric oxide.

Incredible partnerships between the private sector, political leaders, philanthropists and amazing grassroots activists across the developing world, but also 250,000 people marched in the streets of Edinburgh outside this very building for Make Poverty History.

So if I was to ask you what the connection between a bottle of Tide detergent and sweat was, you'd probably think that's the easiest question that you're going to be asked in Edinburgh all week.

Here's a photograph of a consultation exercise in full swing in the little town of Penicuik just outside Edinburgh, and you can see the children of Penicuik celebrating the burning of the effigy of the windmill.

Well, as we gather here in Edinburgh, technocrats appointed by the U.N. and certain governments, with the best intentions, are busying themselves designing a new package of goals, and currently they're doing that through pretty much the same old

And when these individuals went and looked at who was the best protein folder in the world, it wasn't an MlT professor, it wasn't a CalTech student, it was a person from England, from Manchester, a woman who, during the day, was an executive assistant at a rehab clinic and, at night, was the world's best protein folder.