Beginning with a provocation from Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard) this session of the April 7-9, 2011conference "Science...
Beginning with a provocation from Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard) this session of the April 7-9, 2011conference "Science and Technology Studies: The Next Twenty,"d...
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet bahara recently said "What might be most astonishing (and...
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet bahara recently said "What might be most astonishing (and disappointing) is that some of the most ...
The future of solar power is here! We know you’ve heard that a lot, and each time the text is bolder and headlines...
The future of solar power is here! We know you’ve heard that a lot, and each time the text is bolder and headlines are louder. But physicist Sam Stranks is r...
Jaimie Cloud is passionate about inspiring young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and...
Jaimie Cloud is passionate about inspiring young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way. She shares new ideas to create conditions for life-long Education for Sustainability. Please click 'Like', leave a Comment, Subscribe to the TEDx Talks YouTube channel, and SHARE on Facebook. Thank you! Jaimie is the founder of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education in New York City, and pioneer in the field of Education for Sustainability (EfS). She writes and publishes extensively, and consults, coaches and teaches in schools around the country and across the world. She has developed exemplary curriculum courses of study, and has produced a set of EfS Standards and Performance Indicators that schools are using to innovate their own curricula to educate for sustainability.
Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings...
Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school classrooms (and, sometimes, to the TED stage.) Prepare to be amazed as he hooks up the Mimosa pudica, a plant whose leaves close when touched, and the Venus flytrap to an EKG to show us how plants use electrical signals to convey information, prompt movement and even count.
