Articles tagged with: brain-friendly
7 Billion People: How Did We Get So Big So Fast?
It was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children, dramatically increasing the world population, …
23 and 1/2 hours: What is the Single Best Thing We Can Do for Our Health?
Dr. Mike Evans, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, created a video to help us learn what the best …
Best of Hans Rosling
Even the most worldly and well-traveled among us will have their perspectives shifted by Hans Rosling. A professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the …
Project Tuva
Bill Gates has bought the rights to Richard Feynman’s lectures, The Character of Physical Law, and has put them on the web with the help of the Microsoft Research team. The historic lectures with lots …
The Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
It was created by Salman Khan and provides a free online collection of more than 2,000 …
What is Intelligence?
While Jeff Hawkins was creating the Palm Pilot, launching the era of handheld computing and amassing hundreds of millions of dollars, a big part of his mind was somewhere else: His true passion is something …
