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More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's ...
If you haven't seen this video, it is an incredible data visualization to explain the correlation between income and life expectancy. He uses temporal and spatial markers to show changes from 1810 to the present. If you discuss it in your course, this would help to explain the epidemiological transition. Via Seth Dixon, luiy, Kenneth Mikkelsen Delete the scoop?
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Could you have predicted the success of the web, tablets and smartphones, privatized space travel, the rise of terrorism, or the myriad of small changes that impact how you live today?
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There will be change – sometime dramatic change – in our future, and there is.....hope. Via Kenneth Mikkelsen Delete the scoop?
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About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people tog... Delete the scoop?
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Many institutions we take for granted are designed from a basis of mistrust. Skip school too often? Go to jail. Run that red light, even when nobody is aroun... Delete the scoop?
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Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of stan... Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks When Colin Stokes’ 3-year-old son caught a glimpse of Star Wars, he was instantly obsessed. But what messages did he absorb from the sci-fi classic? Delete the scoop?
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Speaker Bios: Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir, and currently serves as the CEO of Addepar, an emerging leader in private wealth management technology. Rosco... Delete the scoop?
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Knowledge is an island. As this island grows, Dartmouth physicist-philosopher Marcelo Gleise says, the border of what we do not know also grows. So the history of knowledge will always be incomplete. Via Erika Harrison Delete the scoop?
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In this 10 part series from The Open University, Professor Russell Stannard OBE delves into subjects ranging from free will and determinism, to space and t Via FastTFriend Delete the scoop?
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In this new RSA Animate, renowned experimental psychologist Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite me... Delete the scoop?
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Biological Anthropologist Helen Fisher studies the brain in love and shares with us her newest research about why we love who we love. What is TEDx? In the s... 
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Maria Konnikova reveals how Sherlock Holmes can teach us to optimise not only our own everyday existence, but our broader contributions to society and the li... Via CogBooks Delete the scoop?
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Various scholars have tried to explain consciousness in long articles and books, but one neuroscience pioneer has just released an unusual video blog to get the ... Delete the scoop?
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Jef Staes is an expert on innovation and change. He is also a keynote speaker and author. (http://www.jefstaes.com) Connect via http://www.twitter.com/jefsta... 
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"Entrepreneurship shouldn't just be an after-school club" Inventor & futurist, Ray Kurzweil on DNA, 3D printed buildings, prediction accuracy, adjusting to c... Delete the scoop?
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The hottest new field in biotech is synthetic biology: Scientists can now re-program life at the cellular level, just like a computer program. Syn-bio experts (also known as bio-hackers) are re-programming the DNA in viruses and creating novel life forms that can replicate and grow just like natural single cell organisms. Via Szabolcs Kósa, Robert 
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TED Talks As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. Delete the scoop?
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Animation describing the Universal Principles of Persuasion based on the research of Dr. Robert Cialdini, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing, Ari... Delete the scoop?
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Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, authors of the HBR article "The Wise Leader," explain how the best executives strive for the common good. Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks Brains are ubiquitous in modern marketing: Headlines proclaim cheese sandwiches help with decision-making, while a “neuro” drink claims to reduce stress. Delete the scoop?
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