TED aligns with Monsanto, halting any talks about GMOs, 'food as medicine' or natural healing

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TED aligns with Monsanto, halting any talks about GMOs, 'food as medicine' or natural healing
Sept 18, 2013 | Natural News | Mike Adams

Allow me to be the first to announce that TED is dead. Why? Because the group that organizes so-called "TED talks" has been thoroughly hijacked by corporate junk science and now openly rejects any talks about GMOs, food as medicine, or even the subject of how food can help prevent behavioral disorders in children. All these areas of discussion are now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage.

This is openly admitted by TEDx itself in a little-known letter publicly published on December 7, 2012. Click here to view the letter.

In that letter, TED says that people who talk about GMOs are engaged in "pseudoscience." Those who discuss the healing potential of foods are spreading "health hoaxes."

The letter also advises TEDx organizers to, "reject bad science, pseudoscience and health hoaxes," meaning anyone who talks about GMOs, "food as medicine" or similar topics.

The TED organization, incredibly, believes that food cannot be medicine and does not contain medicine. Perhaps someone should educate TED about resveratrol, curcumin, phycocyanins, polyphenols and ten thousand other chemicals created by plants that have medicinal functions in the human body. To deny this is to nearly admit you believe the Earth is flat and that the sun and stars revolve around our planet. It is a sure sign of a feeble mind that cannot grasp the very simple and readily evident idea that the human body evolved in an environment full of plants with beneficial physiological effects, including many medicinal effects.

Maybe someone should remind TED that nearly 25% of all prescription medicines are in some way derived from plants, including statin drugs. Drug companies expend enormous resources searching the world's botanical treasures for amazing molecules that they can pirate from nature and alter in some way to make them patentable as a drug. Even the World Resources Institute readily admits this, while also remind us that 80 percent of the world population still relies largely on plant-based medicine.

TED apparently thinks 80 percent of the world population is purely delusional, because obviously, as TED insists, real medicine can only come from pharmacological factories spewing out deadly chemicals, right?

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042112_TED_conferences_pseudoscience_GMO.html#ixzz2fI8JCZfB

Reasons for the seasons - Rebecca Kaplan

Reasons for the seasons - Rebecca Kaplan
May 23, 2013 | TEDEducation

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/reasons-for...

Why do some regions experience full-time heat while others are reckoning with frigid temperatures and snow? And why are the seasons reversed in the two hemispheres? Rebecca Kaplan explains how the shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun and the Earth's tilt on its axis affect the amount of sunlight each region receives.

Lesson by Rebecca Kaplan, animation by Marc Christoforidis.

Euclid's puzzling parallel postulate - Jeff Dekofsky

Euclid's puzzling parallel postulate - Jeff Dekofsky
Mar 26, 2013 | TEDEducation


View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/euclid-s-pu...

Euclid, known as the "Father of Geometry," developed several of modern geometry's most enduring theorems--but what can we make of his mysterious fifth postulate, the parallel postulate? Jeff Dekofsky shows us how mathematical minds have put the postulate to the test and led to larger questions of how we understand mathematical principles.

Lesson by Jeff Dekofsky, animation by The Leading Sheep Studios.

Ron Finley: A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA

Ron Finley: A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA
Mar 10, 2013 | TEDtalksDirector

"Growing your own food is like printing money."

What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion - Conor Neill

What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion - Conor Neill
Jan 14, 2013 | TEDEducation

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-aristotle-and-joshua-bell-can-teach-us-about-p...

Imagine you are one of the world's greatest violin players, and you decide to conduct an experiment: play inside a subway station and see if anyone stops to appreciate when you are stripped of a concert hall and name recognition. Joshua Bell did this, and Conor Neill channels Aristotle to understand why the context mattered.

Lesson by Conor Neill, animation by Animationhaus.

How to find the true face of Leonardo - Siegfried Woldhek

How to find the true face of Leonardo - Siegfried Woldhek
Jan 13, 2013 | TEDEducation

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-find-the-true-face-of-leonardo-siegfried-wol...

Mona Lisa is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uses some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo.

Talk by Siegfried Woldhek.

Phenology and nature's shifting rhythms - Regina Brinker

Phenology and nature's shifting rhythms - Regina Brinker
Jan 10, 2013 | TEDEducation

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/phenology-and-nature-s-shifting-rhythms-regina-brinker

With rapidly rising global temperatures come seasonal changes. As spring comes earlier for some plant species, there are ripple effects throughout the food web. Regina Brinker explains how phenology, or the natural cycles of plants and animals, can be affected by these changes.

Lesson by Regina Brinker, animation by The Leading Sheep Studios.

The moral roots of liberals and conversatives - Jonathan Haidt

The moral roots of liberals and conversatives - Jonathan Haidt
Dec 31, 2012 | TEDEducation

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/jonathan-haidt-on-the-moral-roots-of-liberals-and-c...

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right, or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most. Jonathan Haidt studies how -- and why -- we evolved to be moral. By understanding more about our moral roots, his hope is that we can learn to be civil and open-minded.

Talk by Jonathan Haidt.

What is color? - Colm Kelleher

What is color? - Colm Kelleher
Dec 18, 2012 | TEDEducation

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-we-see-color-colm-kelleher

Have you ever wondered what color is? In this first installment of a series on light, Colm Kelleher describes the physics behind colors-- why the colors we see are related to the period of motion and the frequency of waves.

Lesson by Colm Kelleher, animation by Vitreous.

The Hidden History of Ancient America

The Hidden History of Ancient America
Nov 20, 2012 | TEDxTalks

The beautiful math of coral - Margaret Wertheim

The beautiful math of coral - Margaret Wertheim
Nov 24, 2012 | TEDEducation

Rare Particle Find May Cast Doubt on Popular Physics Theory

Rare Particle Find May Cast Doubt on Popular Physics Theory
Nov 12, 2012 | Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer

This diagram illustrates the collision of two protons inside
the Large Hadron Collider, creating a spray of other particles,
including a B_s meson (blue) that decays into two muons (purple).
CREDIT: LHCb

An extremely rare particle measurement from the world's largest atom smasher could cast doubt on a popular theory about the fundamental building blocks of the universe, including dark matter.

Physicists from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland have measured a particular type of particle transformation for the first time, and found that it happens just about as often as predicted by the dominant theory of particle physics, called the Standard Model.

The measurement is just preliminary — the researchers haven't collected enough data to be positive what they're seeing isn't just a random occurrence. Still, the fact that the initial observations correspond so well with the Standard Model predictions isn't a hopeful sign for what scientists call "new physics," such as new particles not predicted by the Standard Model.

One of the most popular theories of new physics is the idea of "supersymmetry" — that all of the known subatomic particles have "superpartner" particles that haven't yet been observed. If these superpartners exist, they could help explain some persistent physics mysteries, such as the nature of dark matter, an invisible substance thought to make up a quarter of the universe. Scientists think dark matter may in fact be composed of supersymmetric particles that haven't yet been detected.

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Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? - Jac de Haan
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What's invisible? More than you think - John Lloyd

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The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

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Photographing Modern Day Slavery

Photographing Modern Day Slavery
Aug 17, 2012 | Waking Times

Photographer Lisa Kristine has been travelling the world for the last 2 years documenting the problem of modern day slavery.  Some 27 million people are thought to be enslaved worldwide even though human slavery is illegal.  From backbreaking labor in brick factories and underground mines, to sex slavery, to textile mills and farms, Lisa tells the story of the people featured in her heart-braking photographs.

In a world where the items being produced have far more value than the people producing them, and women and children are terribly objectified, slavery is sadly a persistent horror that requires worldwide attention.  Please watch this TedX presentation and support the work of FreeTheSlaves.net.

Secrets of the Nomen: The History of Keeping Time

The History of Keeping Time
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8-minute TEDx video: economics for 100% of Earth’s inhabitants’ success

May 30, 2012: 8-minute TEDx video: economics for 100% of Earth’s inhabitants’ success - Carl Herman - Washington Blog



The Venus Project of Jacque Fresco, featured in the Zeitgeist films, documents a “resource-based economy” to optimize Earth’s resources for the success of all Earth’s inhabitants. This 8-minute video is the best I’ve found for concise and powerful communication of this possibility.

In contrast, the economy we have is by the 1% for the 1%. These are its features:

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1. What we use for money is created by 1% bank owners as a debt that must be repaid with interest. This causes increasing total debt that can never be repaid because that is what we use for money. The promotion of debt owed by the 99% to the 1% as somehow “good” for the 99% is criminal economic fraud in annual damages of trillions of dollars, harm to billions of people, and deaths to millions of people.
2. The 1% operate in cartels that collude to transfer the 99%’s wealth to themselves. This includes a war cartel that kills millions in Orwellian violation of war law (military armed attacks are Wars of Aggression in all cases except when under armed attack by another nation’s government).
3. The 1% corporate media lie and distract rather than ever expose the 1%’s crimes centering in money and war, and never seriously report on topics such as a resource-based economy in benefit for 100% of us.

The solution to get from our “debt supply” in Orwellian opposite of a money supply to a resource-based economy will likely happen through monetary and credit reform as a first step:

• Monetary reform creates debt-free money that extinguishes national debt (details here),
• allows government to become employer of last resort for infrastructure investment (hard and soft) for full-employment and optimal infrastructure,
• causes falling prices because infrastructure historically creates more value to the economy than cost.

Credit reform allows for public loans (interest directly pays for public goods/services) as another monetary tool for stable money supply (credit reform details here). An example could be 2% mortgages from a state-owned bank that would completely fund state taxes.

This brighter future is why we Occupy, and why we demand arrests of the criminal 1% that choose debt, deprivation, and War Crimes.

We invite your full participation. The choice of where you place your thoughts, words, and actions is your future. Choose wisely.

How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

Mar. 13, 2012: How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries - TEDEducation



Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.

"How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries" was animated by the TED-Ed Animation Team (Jeremiah Dickey, Biljana Labovic, Celeste Lai, Kari Mulholland and Franz Palomares)

View the full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-simple-ideas-lead-to-scientific-discoveries

Updated: Under Pressure, TED Releases 'Income Inequality' Talk

Updated: Under Pressure, TED Releases 'Income Inequality' Talk - CommonDreams.org

UPDATE: After a spirited twenty-four hour online campaign aimed at TED, which urged the group to make available a talk given in March by venture capitalist, Nick Hanauer, on the negative impacts of income inequality on the economy, the non-profit group released a statement addressing what they termed "a non story," offered their side, and posted the video.



Read statement released and transcript of video..