This TED Talk is about inventor Saul Griffith’s idea to use giant kite wind turbines to create energy. Watch it now:
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Collection of Talks for Inspirational Self-Improvement
Nobody is perfect and everybody can improve their life, the hard part is doing it. Lucky for us Select Courses has a list of 100 talks for self-improvement on topics like how to better respect the environment to relationships and society.
These days, it’s hard to get motivated enough for anything. The economy is down, your savings–if you had any to start with–have probably dwindled, and it’s still easy to get depressed about the housing market, the environment, foreign policy, and even the possibility of sending your kids to college. But that’s exactly why we need inspiration and mood boosters at any cost. Luckily for you, these are free.
20 Amazing Facts About Happiness
Family Health Guide has compiled a neat list of twenty facts about happiness, here’s some good ones:
5) People who rate in the upper reaches of happiness on psychological tests develop about 50% more antibodies than average in response to flu vaccines.
6) According to researchers at The World Database of Happiness at Erasmus University in Holland, Denmark is officially the happiest nation in the world, followed closely by Malta, Switzerland, Iceland, Ireland and Canada.
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13) Having 100-200 belly laughs a day is the equivalent of a high impact workout, burning off up to 500 calories.