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It’s striking that you can put a bunch of young kids from different backgrounds into a room and they’ll find ways to happily play whether they speak the same language or not. [...]

As children we all have dreams.  What we’d like to be and do when we grow up.  Doesn’t matter whether we come from a first world country or a slum in Nairobi [...]

Almost all innovation be it business, science or medicine comes from outside our narrow specialisation. Fleming who discovered penicillin by accident and observation as did Jenner who discovered milkmaids who’d had cowpox [...]

Raghava KK has been drawing cartoons from the age of 5.  In this TED talk he charts his journey through 5 phases of his artistic career. It’s different, and well worth watching. [...]

Political Cartoons have a unique way of pointing out the absurd.  Religious cartoons have caused widespread mayhem and deaths.  Others have been used as weapons against the other side. Cartoons are a [...]

Did you know economists value the world’s coral reefs in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year?  Coral reefs aren’t valuable just for their tourist attraction.  Besides providing protection from storm [...]

What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. The Harvard [...]

Most people when asked will say they want to live healthy lives.  But they don’t take consistent steps to achieving this.  The most obvious being diet.  Not dieting, but diet. In this [...]

In an increasingly frenetic world, the need to take time out and just be still has never been greater.  We’re constantly bombarded with “stuff” that “demands” our attention.  But we never get [...]

Negotiation and conflict are a part of life.  Small conflicts can escalate into large ones, often spanning generations.  So could there be a better way of negotiating and possibly solving these no [...]

We’ve all heard that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could take over a lot of white collar professional jobs.  So could an AI robot pass  the entrance exams of Japan’s top university, The University [...]

I’m sure we’re all familiar with the “orphanage model” so prevalent in developing countries like Cambodia and Vietnam.  Lots of us financially contribute to their upkeep firmly believing it’s in the best [...]

What is the consciousness?  Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience - and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world [...]

We probably all know someone with Alzheimer’s.  It’s a horrible disease that currently has no cure.  But what if you could prevent it or at least slow down or remove the symptoms? [...]

A lot of our contemporaries are looking at retirement living options.  Many choose retirement villages for the sense of security and community.  You can live in your own place, but share meals [...]

Can democracy exist without trust?  And is it the best form of government? We certainly believe it in the West.  But looking at voting patterns, you’d have to surmise that lots of [...]

When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Eric’s story highlights the risks inherent in medical specialisation [...]

There is a direct correlation between a full stomach and academic performance.  Former Whitehouse chef Sam Kass relates how schools in America are feeding their students in an effort to help them [...]

Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible — but because it doesn’t look appealing.  Over the last 3 – 4 years there’s been a big push [...]

2041 will be a pivotal year for our planet. That year will mark the end of a 50-year agreement to keep Antarctica, the Earth’s last pristine continent, free of exploitation. Explorer Robert [...]

Could the washing machine be the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution? Hans Rosling, professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, expounds why in this very funny, and enlightening talk on [...]

How much sleep do you get and how does it affect you?  Most of us don’t get anywhere near enough and the effects can be quite dire.  Everything from obesity, high stress, [...]

Every big city suffers horrendous traffic congestion.  Government’s solution – build more roads or enlarge existing ones!  But what if you completely rethought the problem using biology? Nature, through evolution always finds [...]

Companies are losing control. What happens on Wall Street no longer stays on Wall Street. What happens in Vegas ends up on YouTube. This short TED talk by Tim Leberecht on “3 [...]

Last week’s TED talk examined the dichotomy between business and charity.  How we expect business to make a profit, while charities have to scrape by.  And why we should change our thinking [...]

We constantly hear about how technology is going to displace workers and take our jobs. And while to some extent this is true, here's a paradox you don't hear much about: Despite [...]

Did you know Apple owes its success to VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet system?  Conceived and designed by Dan Bricklin in 1979, spreadsheets have revolutionised business computing. In this TED Talk, Dan [...]