A sampling of tweets from yesterday’s TEDxCambridge. We had an audience of nearly 300 in the auditorium and more than 20,000 tuning in on the webcast!
We spread ideas:
@tinochow: If we were to design a problem that no one cares about, it would look like Global Warming – Dan Ariely #TEDxC
@omangen: Dan Ariely: We’re a lot more like Homer Simpson than we’d like to admit, but we can do something about it. #tedxc
@tinochow: Edgar Blanco showing us how a single banana is grown, processed, transported an everything in between – 120g of CO2 #TEDxC
@renewacycle: David Gracer takes the stage “we should be eating more bugs that we are” #TEDxC. Large percentage of biomass on the Earth = insects
@mamashayna: on orange juice: “we take if for granted that we have the right to know what’s in our food, but the reality is, we know very little”
@cagraber: Alissa Hamilton: If we demanded as little information from politicians as we do from food providers, democracy would be a sham. #TedXC
@crack9: filmmaker richard chisolm thinks #legal accountability is necessary for reforming school food #TEDxC
@amytraverso: #TEDxC Richard Chisolm: Many lessons of Jamie Oliver’s show are born out by Baltimore experience: bureaucrats resist. Kids eat junk w/o help
@iqdudette: David Waters: first TED talk today to make me cry. Food was the only medicine for AIDS in the 80s. #tedxc community servings is AMAZING
@ALynn27 Looking for exact word. Jen made me think about missing my farming roots. Nostalgic.
@tagz23: Want a job at Burger King? Get rejected by McDonald’s 8 times.
@TEDx: Glynn Lloyd @TEDxCambridge: community development is a design problem. How can we design our communities to be self sufficient? #TEDxC
@CambridgeCarrie: Francisco Migoya: “Vegetarians are people too” RE: a french toast maple chocolate bar samples made w/o requisite bacon <gasp> #TEDxC
@iqdudette: Oh baby! Don Katz talkin’ neuroscience + taste. Sweet is yummy, bitter is yucky for evolutionary reasons, but can be ’switched’ #tedxc
@matthewsaiia: #TEDxC @TEDxCambridge education can free us from recipes – Alt
@tinochow: How to cook the perfect steak at home – put steak take 130 degree waterbath in a cooler 
Kenji Alt #TEDxC
@cheesematt: “I have to tell you all a secret: Chefs really don’t know what were doing”. – Wiley Dufresne
@tedsv: A passionate Chandler Burr -”a spectacular scent ..one of the most limpid, lovely, fruity, light neoclassical, post-modern perfumes”
@antoinette_b: Mixologist John Gersten, Drink, Boston: Bartenders don’t serve cocktails… bartenders serve people.
@TEDx: What do you do to feed your soul? And what happens when your soul isn’t fed? #TEDxC
We ventured out into the final frontier:
@ALynn27: #TEDxC Bugs are the meat of the future… Or maybe just in my immediate future for today.
@naannkerrie: ate some crickets tonight at #TEDxc – fried with ginger rolled up in a leaf and also baked into bread. Next big protein craze?
@cagraber: #TedXC – Ayr Muir of @cloverfoodtruck says fast food can be tasty, fresh, healthy, inexpensive. Theirs certainly is!
@mamashayna: picked up some ‘bacon+maple=love’ chocolate & tried fresh baked protein-full bread w/insects in the batter at tedx today
@Bacon_FTW F. Migoya: “foie gras, grapes, maple chocolate, bacon, french toast, etc. made into #chocolate“ #TEDxC Why not? http://bit.ly/bAtQgO
@c_leschin: Just had a eucalyptus & foie gras truffle. Weird & delicious at the same time! #TEDxC
@amytraverso: Just had my first taste of Miracle Fruit via mBerry:http://bit.ly/pi1Av Makes sour lime slice taste like sweet limeade. #TEDxC
@katiekeen: Food consumed so far at #tedxc: Wheelers vegan espresso bonbon, Tantric samosa. Next up, voltage coffee (hopefully).
@zebakhan: am considering entomophagy via insect ground bread.. Baby steps#TEDxC
kevinkliu: finally home after #tedxc – best maple-bacon chocolate bar, craft beer, lime slice, catapillars, maple syrup, & latte in my life – good day!
All and all, it was a *great* day:
@matthewsaiia: Can’t sleep, head is still swimming in all that was great about @TEDxCambridge.
@nsinha: #TEDxC = life-changing.
For a another way to view the Twitter conversation around the event, check out tweeb.us, a cool startup by a MIT lab alum Marc Davis.
