Bill Gates – how do you make education better?

Bill Gates, philantropist :)
“A goal I had there was to draw more people in to work on those problems, because I think there are some very important problems that don’t get worked on naturally. That is, the market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the governments to do the right things. And [...]

The Power of Time Orientation – Philip Zimbardo @ TED

Philip Zimbardo: “Now lets tempt four-year-olds, giving them a treat. They can have one marshmallow now. But if they wait until the experimenter comes back, they can have two. Of course it pays, if you like marshmallows, to wait. What happens is 2/3rds of the kids give in to temptation. They cannot wait. [...]

Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom on TED.com

Barry Schwartz: “And, perhaps most important, as teachers, we should strive to be the ordinary heroes, the moral exemplars, to the people we mentor. And there are a few things that we have to remember as teachers.

One is that we are always teaching. Someone is always watching. The camera is always on.
[...]they have come to [...]

Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.?

Good Will Hunting
written by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck

You can see the text version here.
And if you haven’t seen the whole movie yet, I think you certainly should. Good fun, great quality. Enjoy.

Evil International Bankers are Running The World

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Fuel fear & war with oil. The electric car worked – 1996. No pollution, cheaper, fiable. So General Motors replaced it with… the Hummer. And put the poor PR guy make his job. Better check out what the guys at the end of the movie did:

Neural plasticity

Similarly, the cerebral regions of the blind people change when they compensate the lack of vision with the tactile sense.

“Mind’s Eye – A painting by Turkish artist Esref Armagan (left), blind since birth. Scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess have studied Armagan to see how his visual cortex functions when painting.” [...]