- -: Iain Hutchison: Saving faces
February 23, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Facial surgeon Iain Hutchison works with people whose faces have been severely disfigured. By pushing to improve surgical techniques, he helps to improve their lives; and by commissioning their portraits, he celebrates their humanity. NOTE: This talk contains images of disfigur...
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- -: Kym Douglas Gets Gorgeous for Fall!
August 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)She only uses ingredients from around the house to look beautiful, so long as you don't mind looking a little nuts, Kym has a great new batch of tips, and gets a little forward with her dummy.
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- -: Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
November 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at...
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- -: TEDxBasqueCountry - Walter Gauvrit - David Chateau-Gaitou - Les Pavés de Lomé
November 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Des myriades de sachets plastiques utilisés comme emballage envahissent les paysages urbains des grandes villes africaines, et tout particulièrement dans la ville côtière de Lomé (TOGO). Ils représentent l'une des formes de pollution visible la plus prégnante, avec des conséquences catastrophique...
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- -: 50 Ways to Save the Ocean - David Helvarg
September 18, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=145 Environmental activist David Helvarg talks about his book, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, and explains how small, individual acts of conservation can work towards environmental preservation. ----- David Helvarg presents "50 Ways to Save...
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- -: Plastic Surgery or "Cosmetic Darwinism?" - Andi Zeisler
September 27, 2006 (over 17 years ago)Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=349 Bitch Magazine editor Andi Zeisler offers a critical commentary on cosmetic surgery in a reading from her article, "Plastic Passion: Tori Spelling's Breasts and Other Results of Cosmetic Darwinism." ----- Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisle...
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- -: Is Recycling a Waste of Time?
November 26, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/27/Battle_of_Ideas_Recycling_is_a_Waste_of_Time German journalist and commentator Thomas Deichman argues that most modern recycling methods are a waste of time and money. ----- "Recycling is a Waste of Time" at the 2007 Battle of Ideas conference hoste...
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- -: Can Recycling Prevent Malaria? - Wangari Maathai
June 29, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/21/Wangari_Maathai_The_Challenge_for_Africa Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai argues that a community-based approach may succeed in reducing waste while also curbing the spread of malaria. She explains that mosquitoes often breed in pools formed in litter a...
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- -: FORA.tv Interviews Radiohead's Thom Yorke @ COP15
December 23, 2009 (over 14 years ago)FORA.tv's Stuart Schulzke interviews Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke at the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen. Although Yorke criticizes the political atmosphere, he remains optimistic that domestic pressures will force world leaders to forge worthwhile policies. "If it's full of shit, we're go...
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- -: A Plastic Revolution: de Rothschild Sails the Plastiki
September 23, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/29/David_de_Rothschild_The_Plastiki_Expedition British adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild discusses the revolutionary material his team designed for the Plastiki, a boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles that he sailed from San Francisco ...
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