Health — Wednesday, January 18, 2012 13:40
The Flavorists – Creating Cravings and ???
Hands-On — Wednesday, December 7, 2011 12:00
Massive-scale online collaboration
Green Living — Sunday, October 9, 2011 10:58
Permaculture Solutions: “The Growing Edge”
Hands-On — Saturday, December 3, 2011 17:22
Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
Culture — Tuesday, October 25, 2011 17:46
Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain
Health — Thursday, October 6, 2011 14:56
Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science
Culture — Thursday, April 21, 2011 18:25
Wrongologist Kathryn Schulz on being wrong
Hands-On — Monday, May 9, 2011 0:00
The future of Silk, nature’s most elegant fabric
Green Living - Oct 9, 2011 - 0 Comments
Permaculture Solutions: “The Growing Edge”
In this short clip from, “Permaculture: The Growing Edge”, permaculture designer and teacher Starhawk talks to mycologist Paul Stamets and microbiologist Dr. Elaine Ingham about the permaculture solutions they’re developing as an antidote to environmental despair. Paul Stamets shows how the solutions to many of the issues that we face today related to pollution and…
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Mike Biddle: We know how to recycle plastic
Discarded plastic, too often, ends up buried or burned, not recycled (it’s just too complicated). But Mike Biddle has found a way to close the loop. Throwing water bottles into the recycling bin doesn’t begin to address the massive quantity of post consumer plastic that ends up in landfills and the ocean. Because it’s so…
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Hands-On - Dec 7, 2011 - 0 Comments
Massive-scale online collaboration
Luis von Ahn builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone. Ahn is an associate professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and he’s at the forefront of the crowd sourcing craze. His work takes advantage of the ever growing Web-connected population to acheive collaboration in…
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Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
This short TED video is an amazing and inspirational example of open-source community-driven DIY (do-it-yourself) innovation and co-creation in gardening. If you live in an apartment, window farming makes great use of the sun’s productive energy. Britta Riley designs and builds urban farms and other participatory artworks that explore the city. She is an artist and…
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Not Two is Peace; World-Friend Adi Da
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True Balsamic vinegars are hard to find
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Mike Biddle: We know how to recycle plastic
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Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue
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Jeremy Gilley: One day of peace everywhere
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Robyn O’Brien sheds light on the food industry
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Bioluminescence: Language of light in deep oceans
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Quantum Jazz Biology, Medicine & Art
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Cuban Native Vida Guerra shows her support for PETA
