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THOUGHT   Cognitive maps Your - Sense of direction?	Maps DESIGN 'True South'
Ancient maps - periplus EDUCATION for All	Maps - Power   Our - Sense of direction?

Previously: 'thought' : 'education' : 'design' : 'cognitive map'

My source:  https://x.com/NobelPrize/status/2098073718371262921?s=20 and @TED_ED

TEDxNHS #1 – Why teaching a man how to fish won’t solve food poverty

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Friedrich	1845
Engels  “social murder ...	... meeting too early a death."

My source:

Friedrich Engels described “social murder” in 1845 as meeting too early a death. We have reached the widened inequality tipping point & life expectancy in the UK is falling. Are we ok with food banks? complicit to social murder? Join us tonight @TEDxNHS to examine solutions. pic.twitter.com/a4ivC0LKoy

— Jemma Gilbert 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her) (@Jemima_G) March 23, 2021

https://www.tedxnhs.com/tedxnhs-unlocked/

Over Here 2: Smart Thinking or Who do you think you are?

Of all the things that tend to merge, overlap, then appear discrete only to dissolve again we can see illness, health and well-being. To these we can add - self-help, intelligent self-help, various forms of literacy (3R's, emotional, economic, information, visual, health) and self-care.

I am sure that Hodges' model can help improve health literacy and general reflective abilities. There are some really difficult-to-reach audiences, clients and communities out there. The challenge is not just spreading the word:

A crude but generally accurate definition of what makes a smart thinking book is anything you could easily imagine being the subject of a TED talk. The recipe is to find a leading expert and get him (alas, still more often than her) to write about an idea in his field that is interesting to a wider audience and which he believes - or at least claims - can help us change our lives for the better. It has been called intelligent self-help, but since most potential readers would not appreciate the implied association with the dumber varieties, "smart thinking" has a certain advantage. ... FT Weekend. p.8

- but demonstration too.

My source: Julian Baggini, Wisdom set to work, Life & Arts, Financial Times. March 8-9, 2014, p.8.

TED: Nic Marks - The Happy Planet Index

As a brief exercise you might wish to take the five positive things that Nic Marks mentions and map them in terms of h2cm.

Additional links:

New Economics Forum

Foresight: BIS

TED Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo and other links

Here are some links as we head for the weekend....

TED CONFERENCE - Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

(Thanks to David McKendrick at Open Software Library for this item)

Internet Maps [c/o the MAPPING-CYBERSPACE list]

Voyager - (so just how far can you run in 30 years?)

LearnByDoing with Pam McLean who led me to -

Worknets wiki

Regenerosity - Community-Building through Active Participation

Next time - Lemon Washing-Up Liquid....

Health: myths about the developing world (Amazing graphics) TEDTalks, with Hans Rosling

Another video presentation from TED 2006 - this time global health and visualization. We often assume there is no data for analyses...

Brilliant! 20 minutes well spent.

Multi-touch interface demo 10mins TED2006

If you have not already seen it - check out this video demo of a hands-on interface from TED2006 - Technology, Entertainment, Design conference in February featuring:

Jeff Han

I came across it c/o the Instructional Technology Forum. Enjoy.

TED2007 watch that space!