Discovering ancient climates in oceans and ice. Recorded on the Mission Blue Voyage (conference at sea) about the future of the ocean and humankind.
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A wind story
The oil spill’s toxic trade-off from TED ideas worth spreading
Some more horror stories about the Oil Spill. From TED.com Break down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that’s grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows evidence it’s sparing some beaches only at devastating cost to the health of the deep sea.
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Houses in the Sahara desert using living bacteria
In today’s video Magnus Larsson is showing us a new kind of architecture. Using organic forms and living, growing materials to bring new life into buildings, homes and infrastructure we use in our everyday life.
He has a plan to build in the Sahara desert sands using living bacteria, creating sustainable living spaces and stopping the desert from destroying good arable land.
Teaching one child at a time
From TED.COM. Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/shukla_bose_teaching_one_child_at_a_time.html About this talk Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India’s slums by looking past the daunting statistics and focusing on treating each child as an individual. About Shukla Bose Shukla …
The magic of the placebo By Eric Mead
I have not been bloggin for a few days. Things have gone a little crazy but I am back 🙂 I watched this interesting short video on TED and I thought I would share it with you. Sugar pills, injections of nothing — studies show that, more often than you’d expect, placebos really work. At …