Recent legislations in Europe, USA and Canada prevent people from smoking in public places, which makes it possible for the first time to actually see on a wide scale what the effect of second hand smoke can be on health…
Here is a lovely example of a brilliant idea that help us rethink our approach to education. The town of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the place where this unusual partnership takes place…
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I do not generally like to relay bad news of any sort, and this is certainly not the subject of this blog. However once in a while it is good to face the reality of the world in which we live, specially when it is exposed by professionals who have acquired a great deal of knowledge about this subject. The following video gives a deep insight into the corruption of this world.
Here is a disturbing video about people using the power of their brain to heal their body.
We are educating children for a world that doesn’t exist yet. And in our rapidly changing global setting we cannot say what the world will be when our children will have to face it 40 years form now. Therefore the most important feature an education must have is making children adaptable and creative.
Our civilisation is facing some of the biggest challenges in the whole history of mankind. The only way we can possibly get out of the vicious cycle we seem to be in is by thinking out of the box and thinking creatively…
Willie Smits set out with a mission to save orang-utans some years ago. Facing tremendous degradation of their natural habitats, those intelligent animals on the verge of extinction are being killed for food, traded as pets or simply failing to thrive as their home gets degraded.
In the following video, you will see how the process of saving these creatures led him on to restoring the rainforest, creating job, preventing the creation of yet another desert and giving people and the nature a chance to develop together in harmony.
Paul Stamets makes an amazing presentation on an organism that is more often than not totally ignored: mycelium – the fruit of which are mushroom.
Believe it or not this is a serious scientific subject, studied by universities and hospitals around the world. You can get a good introduction by watching the videos below.
I like Hans Rosling. The following presentations are properly jaw-dropping. He takes the old myths about poverty in the world and shine a new light on them.
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