Archives for October 2019

Sir David Attenborough says avoiding waste is the one thing we can all do to help save the planet.

Read more: https://wef.ch/2R7TjdI #nature #wef19

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Plastic bags aren’t as bad as you think… their design was to help save the planet

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TED Talk “What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness” -Robert Waldinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI

What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, …

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Incroyablob !
750 million years older than dinosaurs “The slime mold is also believed to be capable of solving problems, such as finding the shortest way to exit a labyrinth and anticipating changes in its environment, according to scientific researchers at the Zoological Park.”

It is bright yellow, can creep along at a speed of up to 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) per hour, can solve problems even though it doesn’t have a brain and can heal itself if it is cut in two.

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Fast Fwd Festival of learning this Saturday. Here’s a 50% promo code DAVELIM50 at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fastfwd-festival-unlocking-the-human-potential-tickets-70139486091
See you on Saturday!

Welcome back to NewCampus’s FastFwd Festival, Singapore’s largest life-long learning conference. This October, we’ll be exploring the fascinating theme around Unlocking the Human Potential.We have enormous potential, much of it is unrealised and unknown. This conference will explore how our physical…

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The problem, the couple said, was that the poor get admired or pitied. They are also not considered knowledgeable, and that there is nothing interesting about their economic existence.

The world’s most-feted economist couple have dedicated their life to fighting poverty.

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We still have a lot to learn about climate change, about why it’s happening and what that means. But one thing is clear: It’s real, alright. These talks provide a primer on the issue of our times.

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“Mazzucato’s most enduring memories of her childhood is watching her father Ernesto, a nuclear fusion physicist at Princeton University, yelling at the news. She would say, “Dad, that’s just information,” to which he would reply: “That’s not information, that’s just what they’re trying to make you believe.” “A critical eye was the first thing my dad instilled in me, mainly just from watching him swear at the TV,”

Mariana Mazzucato has demonstrated that the real driver of innovation isn’t lone geniuses but state investment. Now she’s working with the UK government, EU and UN to apply her moonshot approach to the world’s biggest challenges

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What’s deeply at stake

In this powerful, personal talk, author and academic Juan Enriquez shares stories from inside the immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border, bringing this often-abstract debate back down to earth — and showing what you can do every day to create a sense of belonging for immigrants. “This isn’t abo…

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