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How To Live To Be 100+

Good points in this Dan Buettner’s talk from TED 2009
Some pointers on how to make systemic change to cities and food choices to enhance health.

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Life and Exotic Chemistry – The Big Hisotry

Very impressive talk in the last TED. All of history (as we think we know it).

Main points I’ve noticed:

  • DNA – learning from errors in its copies!
  • In the past 4b years we was it time after time.
  • 2b years ago – it started…
  • Our language is what gave us our power and our history.
  • Collective learning.
  • Farming was energy bonanza.
  • 7B people are one huge brain today.
  • Goldilocks condition are in danger.
  • The big history show us the challenges and dangers we are facing
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What If Compassion Was Fun And Profitable?

Great TED talk about compassion in Google. It shows the happiest man in the world (for real) and how ‘level 5’ leaders (humble + ambition) can create a huge change in life.

I liked the fact that Chade-Meng Tan talked about ‘search inside yourself’ (after all, he is from the search giant).

His  main steps are: Search inside yourself: Attention -> quality mind (=clear) -> self knowledge -> Focus on happiness (of the other).

‘if you want others to be happy, proactive compassion. if you want to be happy, proactive compassion.’ – Dalai Lama

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How A Hedge Fund Analyst Is Changing The World (For Good This Time)

Salman Khan (yep – this is the hedge fund analyst we are talking about here) is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy

  • Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a FREE world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
  • It now consists of self-paced software and, with over 1 million unique students per month, the most-used educational video repository on the Internet.
  • All 2000+ video tutorials, covering everything from basic addition to advanced calculus, physics, chemistry and biology, have been made by Salman.

Here is a talk he gave last week at TED 2011… enjoy.

I hope to have time in the next tow months to take some videos and translate them.

Here is another great video that show what is about and why Bill Gates is funding parts of it.

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