{"id":649849,"date":"2013-04-01T09:51:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=73964"},"modified":"2013-04-01T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T13:56:42","slug":"how-a-dead-duck-changed-the-ted-audiences-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649849","title":{"rendered":"How a dead duck changed the TED audience’s life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kees Moeliker proudly displays a dead mallard at TED. Photo: James Duncan Davidson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"KeesKees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life<\/span><\/a>In the days leading up to TED2013, we at the TED Blog revealed the best props at TEDs past<\/a> and showed you the speakers who\u2019d brought animals on stage with them<\/a>. Little did we know that, on the day two of the conference, we\u2019d meet a speaker who\u2019d combine both.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s talk<\/a>, given at TED2013, Kees Moeliker illuminates how finding a dead duck one summer day changed the course of his professional life.<\/a> It\u2019s an incredible, hilarious and unexpected story. And to highlight the importance of said duck, Moeliker physically brought it on stage with him. Dead for nearly eighteen years (Moeliker found this duck outside of the\u00a0Natural History Museum Rotterdam<\/a>, where he works,\u00a0in 1995 and had him stuffed for posterity), Moeliker took the taxidermied duck\u00a0out of a plastic bag and passed it to a brave audience member.<\/p>\n

Below, see the hilarity that ensued as this odd artifact made the rounds.<\/p>\n

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An audience member cradles the dead duck. While some in the audience appear disturbed, others glow. Photo: James Duncan Davidson<\/dd>\n

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\"Richard<\/p>\n

Richard Turere, who gave the talk “My invention that made peace with lions,”<\/a> cracks up at this surprising talk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kees Moeliker proudly displays a dead mallard at TED. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my lifeIn the days leading up to TED2013, we at the TED Blog revealed the best props at TEDs past and showed you the speakers who\u2019d brought animals on stage with them. Little did we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}