A doctor’s touch – Abraham Verghese
Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes...
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Fighting a contagious cancer – Elizabeth Murchison
What is killing the Tasmanian devil? A virulent cancer is infecting them by the thousands — and unlike most cancers, it’...
Hire the hackers! – Misha Glenny
Despite multibillion-dollar investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely ignored: who are the people who...
Our failing schools. Enough is enough! – Geoffrey Canada
Why, why, why does our education system look so similar to the way it did 50 years ago? Millions of students were failing then, as t...
Teachers need real feedback – Bill Gates
Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: “satisfactory.” And with no feedback, no coaching, t...
Cloudy with a chance of joy – Gavin Pretor-Pinney
You don’t need to plan an exotic trip to find creative inspiration. Just look up, says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Clo...
The voice of the natural world – Bernie Krause
Bernie Krause has been recording wild soundscapes — the wind in the trees, the chirping of birds, the subtle sounds of insect...
Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he detail...
Sex needs a new metaphor. Here’s one … – Al Vernacchio
For some reason, says educator Al Vernacchio, the metaphors for talking about sex in the US all come from baseball — scoring,...
What’s wrong with our food system – Birke Baehr
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-s-wrong-with-our-food-system-birke-baehr 11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take...