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Archives for July 2014

The best gift I ever survived
– Stacey Kramer

From TED.com Stacey Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an unwanted experience — frightening, traumatic, costly — can turn out to be a priceless gift. Stacey Kramer has traveled the United States and the world helping to create names and brands for growing companies. Why you should listen Co-founder of Brandplay, a […]

What if our healthcare system kept us healthy?
– Rebecca Onie

From TED.com Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that — and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated […]

Shower the People
by James Taylor

“shower the people we love, with love” So very often, we hold back, not expressing ourselves and fearful of rejection if we actually express our feelings openly and honestly to  people we care about. We feel vulnerable and exposed to speak from the heart. Being stoic and silent is considered to be strength by some, even […]

Nelson Mandela

By the time of his death, Nelson Mandela had come to be widely considered “the father of the nation” within South Africa, and “the founding father of democracy”, being seen as “the national liberator, the Savior, its Washington and Lincoln rolled into one”. Mandela’s biographer Anthony Sampson commented that even during his life, a myth […]

What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe
– Ben Goldacre

From TED.com When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers in the dark. In this impassioned talk, Ben Goldacre explains why these unreported instances of negative data […]

The All-Dancing Funny, Amazing,
Christopher Walken

The Christopher Walken we all know from over 100 movies, and TV shows and the numerous stage shows and plays  (including The Deer Hunter, Annie Hall, The Prophecy trilogy, The Dogs of War, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Catch Me If You Can and others which have […]

The difference between winning and succeeding
– John Wooden

From TED.com With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father’s wisdom. John Wooden, affectionately known as Coach, led UCLA to record wins that are still unmatched […]

Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer
– Mina Bissell”

From TED.com For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea — that a cancer cell doesn’t automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on surrounding cells (its microenvironment) for cues on how to develop. She shares the two key experiments that proved the prevailing wisdom about cancer growth was wrong.   Mina Bissell studies how […]

J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet,philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language […]

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream, really do come true… [CREDIT: Found on FLICKR > ]

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