| PREVIOUS PINC'S: PICTURES |
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Can you explain 13,7 billion years of history in 20 minutes? Christopher Lloyd could! We will never forget his talk! |
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Swiss scientific photographer Martin Oeggerli is a Micronaut, exploring inner space. At PINC.11 he showed us his spectacular photo's of the microcosm! He enlarges his images up to 500,000:1. |
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For some years now, we have the great PINC-book-exchange, which is a big success and already resulted in several unexpected contacts! |
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At the end of PINC.10, a smashing performance of the Jazz Juniors (the band consists of children aged 9 till 14). A standing ovation! |
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You can talk, but don't say anything, you can hear and not listen, you can look but don't see... Professor James Elkins told us 'How to Use Your Eyes'. |
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Astronomer and Alien researcher Seth Shostak is leading the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. How does live begin and evolve? Does live exists in the universe? Only a few people in the audience believed in the existence of aliens. |
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A small group of Estonians had an amazing plan! Google Earth enabled them to go for it... Cleaning up Estonia with over 50,000 volunteers. Tiina Urm, founding member of the "Let’s Do It!" campaign, told her amazing story at PINC.10. |
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Emiel de Jong and Noël van Santen (Cabaret Schudden): the great opening of PINC.10 with their Playmobil-act! |
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A treasure box of spices, specially created as a gift for the attendees of the PINC.11 Conference. |
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Ben Underwood is blind as of the age of two. He finds his way by clicking with his tongue (echo-location), just like bats and dolphins do and has a 'normal' life. He wants to become an inventor, actor, writer and game-designer. |
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Magician Hans Klok, surprised the audience with his unannounced 8-minutes performance at the opening of PINC.9! |
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Chemist and inspirator of the Cradle to Cradle-principle, professor Michael Braungart, talked about his concept of 'remaking the way we make things'. |
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Baroness Susan Greenfield (PINC.7) was probably the fastest-speaking woman that PINC had ever seen, but what an amazingly intelligent story about brains she had to tell! |
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Iranian graphic designer Reza Abedini at PINC.7 in May 2006. In December, he received the Prince Claus Award for his modern visual work, rooted in age-old Iranian traditions. |
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Ex-Microsoft executive John Wood started Room to Read, giving children in poor countries an opportunity to learn to read. |
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Video artist and composer Jaap Drupsteen, who previously gained renown as the designer of the Dutch guilder banknotes, gave a presentation on interactive assignments. |
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If you don’t speak for 17 years, you must be a rather special person. John Francis made his entrance playing a banjo. |
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Aureo DeFreitas flew in all the way from Brazil, and surprised us by bringing along the Amazon Youth Cello Choir, who all love the cello thanks to him. |
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Ted Scapa is an artist, illustrator, cartoonist, TV-personality, publisher, and much, much more. His mind knows no boundaries. |
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A classical intermezzo by Sterre Konijn en Nora Fischer, winners of the Prinses Christina Concours. |
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Our well-stocked and highly-successful PINC bookstore serves brain food to our guests. We work year-round to guarantee our guests an outstanding collection of books. |
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Comedian Ursus Wehrli doesn’t like the unorganized paintings of Klee, Picasso, Magritte, and Mirö. He has his own hilarious way of bringing some order to their world-famous paintings. |
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Dutch author A.L. Snijders (PINC.8) is famous for his very short stories. His characteristic voice added an extra dimension when he read for our guests. |
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Professor Chris McManus surprised the audience with a presentation full of typical English humor about the asymmetry in brains, bodies and cultures. |
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Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister, who lives in New York, presented his “Things I have learned in my life so far.” |
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Dutch entertainer Erik van Muiswinkel opened PINC.8 in May 2007. |
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Every year, the PINC guests are presented with an unexpected gift. This wooden Anubis was specially designed for PINC by British artist Paul Spooner. |
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Roxanne Cody left her well-paid financial job in Manhattan to start her own bookshop, which became a huge success. |
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René Mioch, film critic and producer, revealed that Robert de Niro is a very different person in real life than the characters he portrays in films. |
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After spending 32 years at the NASA (project leader Sojourner Rover), Donna Shirley is now director of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. |
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Peter van Lindonk welcomes visitors at a PINC Conference in Zeist. |
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Lunch at PINC - time to talk, visit our special bookshop, and meet old friends, speakers and new friends. |
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Porta Alpina is the unbelievable project of Marc Cathomen and Arthur Loretz. They want to use the emergency elevator of the longest Swiss tunnel to connect the Surselva region with the world. |
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PINC.4 featured a hilarious presentation by the design brothers Daniël and Markus Freitag from Switzerland, who produce bags from recycled material. |
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Everybody knows the Lonely Planet Guides. Founder Tony Wheeler (PINC.4) shared his success story with us. |
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Kevin Warwick, Prof. of Cybernetics, England. Implanted a microchip in his arm that automatically opens doors and switches on lights, among other things. |
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A most unexpected performance by Heinrich Lüber at PINC.6. |
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This ‘one room’ hotel overlooking a lake in Sweden is one of the inventions of Mikael Genberg. He is now working on a ‘Swedish’ house on the moon. |
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Photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher spoke about the many different ceremonies they had encountered and photographed in their beloved Africa. They published several books on Africa. |
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Frederik Eijkman and his wife left their “old life” in the Netherlands and went to Kenya, where they do fantastic social work with kids and HIV-mothers. |
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World Champion Whistler (2004 and 2005) Geert Chatrou can blow out popular melodies, as well as Vivaldi and the US national anthem. |
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The Swiss biologist David Bittner spent two months in the Alaskan wilderness, accompanied by grizzly bears only. |
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