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As Director of Developmental Play & Attachment Therapies and adjunct Professor at Barry University, Janet’s career is centered on bringing

Click here for view full lesson. We hear about calories all the time: How many calories are in this cookie? How many are burned by doing 100 jumping j

Doctors had given Anita Moorjani just hours to live when she arrived at the hospital in a coma on the morning of February 2nd, 2006. Unable to move as

Little girls grow up hearing both implicit and explicit messages suggesting that the most important attribute they can strive for is beauty. A media c

Nathalie Mann was successful in her application to be part of the live Bay 17 audience at TEDxSydney, and agreed to tell her story to the rest of us p

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-some… What do Charles Darwin, Michael Jordan, and Yoda have in common? They, like many other

Liz Mullinar is the Founder of Heal For Life Foundation. In 2000 she was awarded the inaugural Australian Humanitarian of the Year Award. In 2009 she

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-wome… A handful of species on Earth share a seemingly mysterious trait: a menstrual cycle. We

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-… Our hard-wired stress response is designed to gives us the quick burst of heightened al

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/do-fad-diet… Conventional wisdom about diets, including government health recommendations, seems to

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-surpris… It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-would-… In the United States, it’s estimated that 30 percent of adults and 66 percent of adoles

Vera Gorbunova concentrates in particular her researches on the naked rat-mole, an underground rodent of East Africa who can live up to 10 times longe

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-our-… Human bodies aren’t built for extreme aging: our capacity is set at about 90 years. But

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Society today views sleep as an inconvenience, as something

According to a former Tokyo English Life Line colleague, Kathleen Pike has the “sigh factor” when she walks in, people sigh in admiration.