Monday, April 15, 2013

A playlist of amazing ideas

TED has a playlist of amazing new ideas Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong Charity is low because it's discriminated compared to for-profit enterprises Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change Desertification can be fought by moving large herds over the deserted areas. Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice Too many choices produce paralysis and worst satisfaction. Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset The world has advanced significantly in the last 60 years, except the bottom billion. Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes Emily Oster flips our thinking on AIDS in Africa Low life expectancy leads to riskier behaviour, education is not enough. Bjorn Lomborg: Global priorities bigger than climate change How do we prioritize the global problems? Most effient: Malaria, Free trade(cut subsidies), Malnutrition(Micro-nutrients),Control HIV Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse The entropy which make the universe is just a random fluctuation in the multiverse.

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