Random Talks

Dr. Robin Goland challenges us to see something in a whole new way. Robin is a medical doctor leading the charge to cure diabetes. Her work combines r

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-your-… Imagine the brain could reboot, updating its damaged cells with new, improved units. Th

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

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

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Could you imagine that our brain cells are able, after a jou

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-polarit… Water is both essential and unique. Many of its particular qualities stem from the fact

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

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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/how-blood-p… If you lined up all the blood vessels in your body, they’d be 60 thousand miles long. A

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High heels: the modern foot binding practice? A medical and social point of view.

Gary Edwards is friends with 82 clowns. He founded Zdravotní klaun (Health Clown) in the Czech Republic in 2001 and for several years funded it with h

Secondary Sugar kills? Wait, secondary sugar is the one that’s hidden and added to foods you wouldn’t suspect, so kids and parents get addicted. A hor

Jack Andraka was named the Gordon E. Moore Award winner at Intel ISEF 2012 (basically the Olympics for high school science research) for his novel, no

Professor Doctor Ben Witteman is gastrointestinal liver physician at Gelderse Vallei Hospital and associate professor Nutrition and gut health in inte