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Discovering ancient climates in oceans and ice. Recorded on the Mission Blue Voyage (conference at sea) about the future of the ocean and humankind.

William Kamkwamba on TEd tells an inspiring story of life: “How I harnessed the wind.”. As he mentions: “it changed his life”. Worth watching. Visit my FREE NICHE MARKET FINDER Get blog updates in your inbox

Some more horror stories about the Oil Spill. From TED.com Break down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that’s grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows evidence it’s sparing some beaches only at devastating cost to the health of the deep sea. Visit my FREE NICHE [...]

Houses in the Sahara desert using living bacteria? http://www.sandrosalsi.com/blog/3424/houses-in-the-sahara-desert-using-living-bacteria/ # TED (Ideas worth spreading) ROCKS !!! # Twitter tip (3): Free Twitter Buttons, Badges, Widget and Counters to Help You Find Followers: http://bit.ly/cPg1m7 # Twitter tip (2): Twitter Tools – Integrates your WordPress blog with Twitter and vice versa. I use to create blog posts [...]

In today’s video Magnus Larsson is showing us a new kind of architecture. Using organic forms and living, growing materials to bring new life into buildings, homes and infrastructure we use in our everyday life.

He has a plan to build in the Sahara desert sands using living bacteria, creating sustainable living spaces and stopping the desert from destroying good arable land.

From TED.COM. Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/shukla_bose_teaching_one_child_at_a_time.html About this talk Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India’s slums by looking past the daunting statistics and focusing on treating each child as an individual. About Shukla Bose Shukla [...]

I have not been bloggin for a few days. Things have gone a little crazy but I am back I watched this interesting short video on TED and I thought I would share it with you. Sugar pills, injections of nothing — studies show that, more often than you’d expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, [...]