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Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 8 Comments: 0 Raw: Alligator on Fairway at Zurich Classic Raw: Alligator on Fairway at Zurich Classic Spectators and at least one marshal at the Zurich Classic were startled when an alligator, estimated to be about 12 feet, spent some of the afternoon sunning itself on the left side of the 12th fairway. (April 26) Apr 27, 2013 12:02 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: Ok Hits: 82 Comments: 0 Roboy Roboy Researchers in Zurich began building the most advanced humanoid robot back in June, and hope to have Roboy finished in March. User: Curtius Feb 14, 2013 2:35 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: No Votes Hits: 119 Comments: 0 Boy: Boy: "Little Numbers": Sxsw 2013 Showcasing Artist BOY - a contagious confection that has spread across the internet like wildfire. The Hamburg-based duo gets your toes tapping, mind playing, feet moving, emotions travelling, head thinking, hips jerking. But above all, they make music that brings a smile to your face. Imagine a mix of the art school elegance of Phoenix, the lively melodics of Feist and the emotional depth of Bon Iver. But to draw such comparisons is superficial and not especially helpful because what you miss is the originality of the BOY concept and the charisma of its two performers. The BOY phenomenon began this summer with their first single \'Little Numbers\'. Now, having conquered their native Germany and Switzerland, they are shipping their sharp brand of pop to the rest of Europe. BOY are both girls. Valeska Steiner sang in several bands in her native Switzerland before moving to Germany, where Sonja Glass grew up, playing the cello in classical orchestras as a child, and later working as a bass player for several pop bands. The duo met when Valeska won a place at a prestigious summer holiday music workshop in Hamburg. There she met Sonja, who had recently returned from a spell studying bass guitar in Holland. BOY\'s debut album, "Mutual Friends", is an autobiographical affair. "It\'s about arrivals and new beginnings," says Valeska, whose songs are written and sung in English. "About hopes and dreams and aspirations. We want to make music that\'s positive and hopeful," explains Valeska,. "There is more to music than heartbreak and loss," agrees Sonja. "This is the Beginning" provides the springboard into the album. "Drive Darling" is inspired by Valeska leaving behind friends and family in Zurich. "And no rear view could picture what we leave behind. Drive, darling, drive." As the tempo rises and the driving sound of guitars push to the fore, the future seems to begin with a smile as a feeling of optimism prevails. In complete contrast however, "Waitress" explores the melancholy story of a barmaid stuck in time and wondering when her life is going to start: "While daylight is fading, while traders are trading, while the jukebox is playing, while lovers are dating, the waitress is waiting." You can hear the empathy in Valeska's voice on the album's last track, "July", a fitting end to the album, it closes the circle of venturing out into the world by bringing you, at last, back home. The dozen songs on "Mutual Friends", painstakingly recorded over a two-and-a-half year period at the 12 square meter home studio of producer and multi-instrumentalist Philipp Steinke in Berlin, have gone through many transformations since they were written. "We made about 10 versions of most of the songs," says Sonja. "So they have evolved over the course of time. And some of them have ended up sounding completely different from the way they began." BOY played most instruments on the record themselves. Only in some cases, such as drumming duties, a rotating roster of friends jumped in to play, among them Phoenix's live drummer Thomas Hedlund. Their irresistible debut single "Little Numbers", which has sparked countless YouTube tributes, is something of a straggler, being the last recorded from the sessions. But this is arguably precisely why the track is imbued with such a rambunctious drive and dizzying joyousness; it is the product of studio playtime, the long-awaited period where musicians can relax and have fun knowing -- wrongly as the case may be -- that all the work is done. The colourful video, shot on the streets of Barcelona last summer, has already clocked up nearly two millions YouTube hits since it was uploaded in July. And the song swiftly spawned countless tributes from fans posting their own versions. BOY's "Mutual Friends" is an intoxicating mixture to lift even the dullest day out of the doldrums and the direct result of the refreshingly lively and humorous personalities of Valeska and Sonja. BOY sing smart, sharply-observed songs with hooks you can\'t get out of your head and lyrics that come from the heart. With its irresistibly breezy optimism, it\'s one of those out-of-nowhere pop hits that gets into your head and won\'t go away. BOY's songs reveal inventive twists, adding subtle experimental touches to a conventional pop palette of guitar, piano drums and bass. User: TheNextDylan Feb 13, 2013 11:47 PM
Unmoderated Tag: TEDTalks Rating: No Votes Hits: 66 Comments: 0 Ted Talks: James B. Glattfelder: Who Controls the World? Ted Talks: James B. Glattfelder: Who Controls the World? James Glattfelder studies complexity: how an interconnected system -- say, a swarm of birds -- is more than the sum of its parts. And complexity theory, it turns out, can reveal a lot about how the economy works. Glattfelder shares a groundbreaking study of how control flows through the global economy, and how concentration of power in the hands of a shockingly small number leaves us all vulnerable. (Filmed at TEDxZurich.) Feb 13, 2013 9:00 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Celebrities Rating: Good Hits: 150 Comments: 0 I Knew You Were Trouble I Knew You Were Trouble WOTE's new EP R.E.V.O. available here: http://smarturl.it/revo-ep WOTE merch available here: http://bit.ly/xZolh7 Walk off the Earth hooked up with KRNFX for this 'a cappella - Beatbox' version of Taylor Swift's hit "I Knew You Were Trouble". Every sound in this video is made by a human mouth! WOTE TOUR DATES AND TICKET LINKS: January 17 -- Detroit, MI http://goo.gl/ScL4J March 20 -- Vienna, AT http://goo.gl/27MCd March 21 -- Budapest, HU http://goo.gl/GyitO March 22 -- Munich, DE http://goo.gl/2dL0T March 23 -- Zurich, CH http://goo.gl/W8AYf March 24 -- Saarbrucken, DE http://goo.gl/AZSzs March 26 -- Hamburg, DE http://goo.gl/70ioj March 27 -- Muenster, DE http://goo.gl/hOYgb March 28 -- Leipzig, DE http://goo.gl/I8xwO March 29 -- Berlin, DE http://goo.gl/5ABP5 March 30 -- Amsterdam, NL http://goo.gl/ev8Dq March 31 -- Antwerp, BE http://goo.gl/fxWjX April 2 -- Paris, FR http://goo.gl/1gVWN April 3 -- Nottingham, GB http://goo.gl/jioxW April 4 -- Newcastle, GB http://goo.gl/VU8ck April 5 -- Dublin, IE http://goo.gl/SBxhR April 6 -- London, GB http://goo.gl/ZBaFd April 7 -- Cologne, DE http://goo.gl/j0QrY Check out KRNFX Add us on FaceBook: WOTE - http://www.facebook.com/walkofftheearth KRNFX - http://www.facebook.com/krnfx Follow us on Twitter: WOTE - http://www.twitter.com/walkofftheearth KRNFX - http://www.twitter.com/krnfx Check out KRNFX on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/krnfxtv You won't be disappointed! WOTE User: lyzard Jan 7, 2013 12:15 PM
Unmoderated Tag: TEDTalks Rating: No Votes Hits: 83 Comments: 0 Ted Talks: Ellen 't Hoen: Pool Medical Patents, Save Lives Ted Talks: Ellen 't Hoen: Pool Medical Patents, Save Lives Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop -- but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution to the problem: the Medicines Patent Pool. (Filmed at TEDxZurich.) Dec 10, 2012 10:01 AM
Headline Tag: Japan Rating: Amazing Hits: 2090 Comments: 4 Where the Hell is Matt? 2012 Where the Hell is Matt? 2012 The cities that didn't make it into the final cut will be in the outtakes video that we're putting up soon! Jun 20, 2012 11:33 PM
Headline Tag: Automobile Rating: Amazing Hits: 953 Comments: 1 Wood Stove Sedan Wood Stove Sedan Cooling the mother of invention, is said Pascal Prokop and acted. The Zurich has also installed an oven in his car, which the authorities have officially allowed. Now his old combination of two smoke pipes. User: Pantufas Feb 14, 2012 4:33 PM
Unmoderated Tag: How To Rating: No Votes Hits: 218 Comments: 0 Ted Talks: Sebastian Wernicke: 1000 TEDTalks, 6 Words Ted Talks: Sebastian Wernicke: 1000 TEDTalks, 6 Words Sebastian Wernicke thinks every TEDTalk can be summarized in six words. At TEDxZurich, he shows how to do just that -- and less. Jan 6, 2012 4:04 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Celebrities Rating: No Votes Hits: 283 Comments: 0 ShowBiz Minute: Jackson, Polanski, Dwts ShowBiz Minute: Jackson, Polanski, Dwts Jackson's voice echoes through Los Angeles court; Roman Polanski arrives at Zurich film festival; Another celebrity says 'arrivederci' to 'Dancing.' (Sept. 28) Sep 28, 2011 6:01 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 1353 Comments: 4 ERIS: World's 1st Realistic Milky Way Simulation ERIS: World's 1st Realistic Milky Way Simulation For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now astrophysicists from the University of Zurich present the world's first realistic simulation of the formation of our home galaxy together with astronomers from the University of California at Santa Cruz. The new results were partly calculated on the computer of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) and show, for instance, that there has to be stars on the outer edge of the Milky Way. See also the interview with Lucio Mayer from the University of Zurich explaining the relevance of this research work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYtBQR2oI4U User: spam_vigilante Sep 1, 2011 10:56 AM
Permanent Tag: Short Films Rating: Good Hits: 295 Comments: 0 Alena's Journey Alena's Journey Alena, an inhibited, thirty-year old accountant from Sarajevo has a plane to catch in the afternoon to Zurich. Her boss and strict father do everything they can to prevent her from attending a four-month business course. Meanness at the workplace and the cruel secrets of the Balkan war come to the surface while in the meantime Alena bravely struggles to achieve her goal. User: hasitottfa Feb 2, 2011 8:41 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Non Sequitur Rating: Amazing Hits: 286 Comments: 0 Impossibility Challenger 2009 Impossibility Challenger 2009 Every year the "Impossibility Challenger" Games take place in Germany in the small village of Dachau near Munich. People from all over Europe participate. Some go for a personal record, others are setting Guinness or World Records. But they have one goal in common: they all get joy by participating and transcending themselves. The games are hosted by the Sri Chinmoy Centres who also organize several Self-Transcendence Ultra Sports Races like the 24-Hour Race in Basel, the Zurich Lake Marathon Swim or the 3100 Mile Race in Queens, NY. Soundtrack by Parichayaka Hammerl, camera: JVC GY-HM100, 720/50P. User: Strafuzzi May 27, 2010 8:25 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Tech Geeks Rating: Amazing Hits: 502 Comments: 0 The Google Holodeck The Google Holodeck I filmed this great toy while I was on vacation in California - I had spent a few days at the Googleplex campus in Mountain View, and found the Holodeck there. I hooked up with the team that built it and we agreed that I will go and build one for the Zurich office where I work :-) It's one of my few HD uploads, but it's worth the view. Thanks to Sebastien Tellier for the great music track. Note: the views in this video are entirely personal, not the Holodeck team's, and not Google's. It's merely a fun representation of what one can do with Google Earth and a few big screens. User: BattleShip_Ron Sep 10, 2009 9:36 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Games Rating: Amazing Hits: 497 Comments: 0 Covert Front 3 Covert Front 3 In Covert Front 3 our top secret agent Kara finds herself in a train station in Zurich with new orders - to apprehend the mysterious scientist Karl von Toten. But who is that watching her from across the station? Kara will have to use all of her cunning to bring in the rogue scientist and avoid meeting a grim end herself. User: noiamtheone Jul 17, 2009 4:36 AM
 
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