Dan Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of Stumbling on Happiness. In this memorable talk, filmed at TED2004, he demonstrates just how poor we humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 22:02)
With limited choices artifical happiness can be very benifical.
Jack Canfield explains the benefits of planing you day the night before. Very simple technique to decrease stress and achieve more.
Stephen Petranek reveals the question that occupies scientists at the end of the day. How might the world end? He lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle accelerator gone wild?
Most interesting is the decrease in the earth’s magnetic field that has allowed in more radiation. If the magnetic field has decreased strength by 5% this might partly account for the recent increasing of temperature?
In a sobering 3-minute talk, Dr. Dean Ornish tracks the dramatic spread of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease around the globe — as people outside the US start to eat, live and die like Americans do. “This may be the first generation in which our kids live a shorter lifespan than we do,” Ornish says. The good news? These trends are preventable and even reversible through diet and exercise.
According to Dr. Ornish “Cardiovascular diseases kill more people each year than in the US. And worldwide than all other illnesses combined… Of these 95% are preventable and reversible.”
Imagine if we never discovered the benefits of stevia because it became extinct?