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Just about worthy ideas, deep conversations, interesting questions. About learning, listening, thinking and mind growing. About empowering people.

An idea worth spreading

Any idea to improve on something, however little, the human condition, quality of life and protecting the planet. An idea for a better education.

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• TEDCred score: +8.50 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

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  A reply on Conversation: Who has made a difference in your learning ability and creativity? Share your personal education failures, milestones, and successes...

  1 day ago: Nice and intensely real your description of life.

• A reply on Conversation: Drinking Cow/Buffalo or any animal's Milk is Ethical ?

  1 day ago: No, Adesh, I never told that, I don't think so, it's difficult to know if it's or not. I respect deeply all the living creatures.
  Greets.

• A comment on Conversation: Smoking and illegal drugs are down, Obesity is up. (USA) Is there a correlation?

  1 day ago: May be there's a common place: the lack of satisfaction or the need of wellnes as a human condition. In my opinion, when we eat frenetically or smoke or consume drugs, something is not working into us, we urgently need help. Not many peiople eats too much or smokes too much, etc., as a logical consecuence of being vivious, but as the external face of a inner problem. We all should offer our best and balanced help if we know somebody needs it.

• A reply on Conversation: Drinking Cow/Buffalo or any animal's Milk is Ethical ?

  1 day ago: Yes, I totally agree with you. What I'd like to remark is that I see as very positive the contemplation of any question or issue from several point of views. That's - I think- what enriches us.
  Thanks again for your question, I consider it very interesting.
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  A comment on Conversation: Drinking Cow/Buffalo or any animal's Milk is Ethical ?

  1 day ago: I do not know very well if something that does not harm the animal, like drinking their milk, can be studied from the ethical point of view or not. I suppose yes. However, many other things can happen that, in different proportions, they are more or less harmful, and about which we do not have much control.
  
  The parasitic insect that blood drawn to a cow and injects bacteria into her, is better or worse? When one cut flowers (who says that the plants do not feel, how we know it?) to decorate our homes, it is indifferent or is bad? And when we walk a stroll and crush to death dozens of ants or other small insects which we cannot see, perhaps we should be looking better down?
  
  I do not know it. There are things that happen in a certain way, and what little we can do to change them. And if we could do something, and it spread massively, the world could change, I do not know whether for better or for worse.
  
  All the questions are interesting, the answers are, because the ideas that underlie, the arguments that move them, teach us something all that possibly had not even thought.
  
  Sir, yours is a good question, anyway.
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  A comment on Conversation: what kinds of things can a community do to protect and nurture its young people?

  1 day ago: I think that the education of children and young people in our society is one of the most important issues that must deal with the activities of a community. Not always properly take care of this, but we must remember that it is at stake the future, and much more. In my opinion, some of the things that we should particularly take care of the education of children, are:
  
  -Teach children to search for information that, at each time, they need, simplify it, rating it and to obtain their own conclusions.
  -Teach them to present these conclusions to others (parents, teachers, colleagues, etc.) clear, synthetic and orderly.
  -Teach them the value of physical exercise and sport, and loving Nature.
  -Teach them the value of reading and the pursuit of knowledge.
  -Teach respect for others, solidarity, teach them also to appreciate the beauty, peace, compassion, love for healthy life habits, and taking care of personal and collective health.
  -Teach them patience, hope, optimism.
  -Teach them the value of positive leisure and rest.
  - And teach them to do all this fun and making learning and the practice of wisdom rather serious but fun.
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  A reply on Conversation: In TED do we really give "thumbs up" when it is "argued well"? Or do we give "Thumbs up" when "we agree with it"?

  4 days ago: Colleen, Thanks from those of us who aren't too good with the language.

• A comment on Talk: David Bolinsky: Visualizing the wonder of a living cell

  Jun 10 2013: Wonderful video! Who told that amazing places for discovering were over? What we need is to know how to look for!

• A comment on Conversation: Supongo que todo aquel que tenga verdadera impunidad para transgredir alguna ley, si le aporta algún beneficio, lo va a hacer

  May 31 2013: Pancho, no siempre las personas buscan maximizar el beneficio; tampoco sucede que si el sistema no castiga a los infractores, de forma automática todo el mundo piense que puede infringir las normas. Existe en el ser humano una noción de lo que es bueno y malo o justo e injusto, y, a veces, el ser humano escucha esa voz porque escucharla le hace sentirse bien, y no escucharla, le hace sentirse mal.
  
  Pancho, not always people seek to maximize profit; It also happens that if the system does not punish lawbreakers, not automatically everybody thinks its easy violate the rules. Exists in the human being a notion of what is good and evil or right and wrong, and, sometimes, human beings listen to that voice because listening to it makes you feel good, and not listen to it, makes you feel bad.
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  A comment on Conversation: Do you believe TED is elitist and exclusive?

  May 31 2013: I don`t know very well if TED is elitist and/or exclusive.
  But what I know, and I know it very well is that TED has given me the opportunity of listen about new ideas, view new perspectives, know different ways of life, watching amazing images, and, at least for me, TED has been and now is an open window to a world I like and where I feel comfortable.
  Thanks, TED.