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Tell Them I Built This: Transforming Schools, Communities, and Lives With Design-Based Education

Pilloton, Emily (2013-04-24)

'Tell Them I Built This' dramatically shows how creativity, critical thinking, citizenship, and dirt-under-your-fingernails construction can radically transform both high school education and the local community where the ...
Weekday Vegetarian: Finally, a Palatable Solution

Hill, Graham; Estes, Alex (Ted Conferences, 2011)

A vegetarian diet can markedly improve your health and fitness, but what if you still love munching into a juicy burger every now and again? Graham Hill has a powerful and simple solution: Become a weekday vegetarian. Don't ...
What's Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems

Shaikh, Alanna (Ted Conferences, 2012)

In the past half-century, we’ve changed the way we collectively view the health of the 7 billion people who occupy this planet. Health issues were once seen as an isolated national or regional problem; now they are a global ...
When I'm 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension, and What Happens if it Succeeds

Duncan, David E. (Ted Conferences, 2012)

How long do you want to live, and why? That's a question that has intrigued humans for eons, and now advanced science and new levels of high-tech have allowed us to live longer and longer and longer — but at what cost? In ...
The Whole Fish: How Adventurous Eating of Seafood Can Make You Healthier, Sexier, and Help Save the Ocean

Finn, Maria (Ted Conferences, 2012)

Seafood is one of the healthiest foods you can eat, but the choices we make when we enjoy it are not just sensory — they also play a part in a large and interconnected system that involves the whole earth's well-being. In ...