Hans Rosling on global population growth | Video on TED.com

Hans Rosling on global population growth | Video on TED.com


The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth.

Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex | Video on TED.com

Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex | Video on TED.com

decline of violence

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html

Steven Pinker's books have been like bombs tossed into the eternal nature-versus-nurture debate. Pinker asserts that not only are human minds predisposed to certain kinds of learning, such as language, but that from birth our minds -- the patterns in which our brain cells fire -- predispose us each to think and behave differently.

His deep studies of language have led him to insights into the way that humans form thoughts and engage our world. He argues that humans have evolved to share a faculty for language, the same way a spider evolved to spin a web. We aren't born with “blank slates” to be shaped entirely by our parents and environment, he argues in books including The Language Instinct; How the Mind Works; and The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.

In 2003, Harvard recruited Pinker for its psychology department from MIT. Time magazine named Pinker one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004. His latest book is The Stuff of Thought, previewed at TEDGlobal 2005. He is working on a new book that studies violence.

Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness | Video on TED.com

Srikumar S. Rao conceived Creativity and Personal Mastery, a pioneering course that is one of the highest rated at Columbia Business School, London Business School and the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.


Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness | Video on TED.com

rotting of the human mind

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_randi.html

Randi has pursued "psychic" spoonbenders, exposed the dirty tricks of faith healers, investigated homeopathic water "with a memory," and generally been a thorn in the sides of those who try to pull the wool over the public's eyes in the name of the supernatural. He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including a MacArthur "genius" grant in 1986. He's the author of numerous books, including The Truth About Uri Geller, The Faith Healers, Flim-Flam!, and An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural.

允許全球各地災後的救難使用者共同標註地圖的軟體。

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/lalitesh_katragadda_making_maps_to_fight_disaster_build_economies.html

政府拥有更少的权利，同时人民借助新兴科技则拥有更多的权利

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/chi_hans/david_cameron.html


英国保守党领袖说 -- 政府拥有更少的权利，同时人民借助新兴科技则拥有更多的权利

Robert F. Kennedy on what GNP means.

Below is a quote from Bobby Kennedy on what the Gross National Product means and more importantly what it does not mean. He would have a made a fine economist...

"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."

Robert F. Kennedy Address, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968