So, if you haven't ever heard of TED.com, go there NOW. Unless you're at work. Or somewhere else where you can't watch videos/don't have sound on your computer. TED is a series of conferences that hosts experts in range of fields to give engaging lectures on important discoveries, inventions, and ideas. Tickets to these conferences cost a pretty penny, but the good people at TED are kind enough to post'em all online for FREE!
Here are a few new ones worth checking out:
Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land minds: The title kind of says it all. He also taught rats to detect tuberculosis in a matter of seconds using a basic reward system with the over-sized rodents.
Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?: Don't be grossed out! He gives a very compelling argument about why we should start considering incorporating insects into our diet. A few of the highlights, we already eat about 500g of insects every year unknowingly in our food, production of animal meat requires 10kg of resources to produce 1 kg of meat while with insects it will yield 9 kg of food, the health benefits of eating insects are essentially the same as eating meat, and locusts are "the shrimp of the land."
I would highly suggest that the next time you have 20 minutes to kill and you find yourself on Facebook or YouTube why not check out a Ted Talk instead?
