Tue, May 22, 2012

Ted Talks Around the Web

 

Ted Talks: Dan Buettner on How to Live to Be 100+

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.

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Ted Talks: How Could a Loving God Cause Horrible Natural Disasters?

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

In the days following the tragic South Asian tsunami of 2004, the Rev. Tom Honey pondered the question, “How could a loving God have done this?” Here is his answer.

Tom Honey, Canon Pastor of Exeter Cathedral, in the UK, is unafraid to take on some of religion’s tougher issues.


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How to Grow Human Organs (Watch Ted Talk Video)

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

Anthony Atala’s state-of-the-art lab grows human organs — from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that “prints” human…

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