From TED.com Stop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined — and it’s mostly preventable. Dr. Dean Ornish explains how changing our eating habits will save lives. Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He’s […]
Fighting a contagious cancer
– Elizabeth Murchison
March 2, 2014 By
From TED.com What is killing the Tasmanian devil? A virulent cancer is infecting them by the thousands — and unlike most cancers, it’s contagious. Researcher Elizabeth Murchison tells us how she’s fighting to save the Taz, and what she’s learning about all cancers from this unusual strain. Contains disturbing images of facial cancer. Elizabeth Murchison studies […]
How to Win Friends & Influence People
– Dale Carnegie
February 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have…and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you!Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies. Dale Carnegie’s first book is a timeless bestseller, […]
Flow, the secret to happiness
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
January 3, 2014 By
From TED.com Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of “flow.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has contributed pioneering work to our understanding of happiness, creativity, human fulfillment and the notion of […]
We need to feed the whole world
– Louise Fresco
December 22, 2013 By
From TED.com Louise Fresco shows us why we should celebrate mass-produced, supermarket-style white bread. She says environmentally sound mass production will feed the world, yet leave a role for small bakeries and traditional methods. A powerful thinker and globe-trotting advisor on sustainability, Louise Fresco says it’s time to think of food as a topic of social […]
