Ted+Talks

media type="custom" key="24702406" Geraldine Hamilton: Body Parts on a Chip The number of diseases is very high and the number of cures is low. Like she said to discover and develop new drugs is very costly, it takes too long, and it fails more often than succeeds. Plus testing on animals doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get the same results in humans because we have different systems. This new chip will allow for a lot more testing on different diseases and because of all the testing we can develop more cures. Just knowing that we have this new technology to help create cures for diseases will give anyone hope.

media type="custom" key="24702376" Chris Downey: Design with the Blind in Mind I really enjoyed his story. He never blamed anyone or became depressed when he lost his sight; he kept on living his life like he could still see. Everything is a total new experience for him so it’s like living all over again. I think it would be cool if they built a place where the customer loses their sight so you have to use all your sensory elements. It would make us all more aware of our senses as well as give us insight to the life of those who are blind.

media type="custom" key="24702388" Robin Nagle: What I discovered in New York Trash 11,000 tons of trash and 2,000 tons of recyclables every single day is an astounding and quite scary number. It's amazing to see how much trash one city can make. This was a great research study on the people who clean up after us. The majority of people don’t think about whose coming to get their trash or where their trash goes as long as they get rid of it. So this was a very insightful piece on what exactly they have to do to keep our cities clean.

media type="custom" key="24702400" Jeff Speck: The Walkable City Most cities are so big there’s no possible way you could live there and not have a car or use some form of transportation that uses gasoline. The fumes that come from our cars are so harmful to the Earth that if it continues who knows what Earth will become. Having more walkable cities would be better for our environment in the long run. If we could walk more in our cities we would appreciate the things that happen in our cities on a daily basis and really see them instead of jsut passing them by. Also having more cities that are walkable could help cut down on the obesity in the U.S.