Listen to the Stars : Wanda L Diaz Merced at TEDx Westerford High School, Cape Town

Wanda speaks about the wonderful and rarely-practiced skill of listening to the stars. To help her audience 'see' the world as she does, she encourages them to don blindfolds and listen to clips of the sounds stars make. An amazingly inspiring talk by an incredibly driven women who, regardless of her circumstance, has done incredible things with her life.

She is a computer scientist and astrophysicist from Peurto Rico. She focuses on researching multimodal perceptualistion as a way to enrich space science data analysis techniques mainly using sound as an adjunct to visualisation.

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Intro animation by Luke Bell
Intro music by Al Bairre

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