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BESQUARE is a beautiful site containing videos from all those cool conferences and talks that you can never get to!

October 3, 2012 Education, Talk

A very interesting TED Talk from Christopher McDougall about barefoot running and his theories on the evolution of man and our abilities to run. He also talks about how wearing shoes makes use heal strike which is far less efficient. The mechanism he refers to is call POSE Running and can be seen here.

February 7, 2011 Talk

I watched The Beautiful Truth documentary about Max Gerson and his alternative approach to cancer treatment. I got the pointer onto it from Glenn who is the cameraman on Diggnation. Anyway, there is a lot of interesting information in the documentary including some of Weston Price‘s research about nutritional impact. Also some interesting cases were highlighted around mercury fillings and there potential dangers. It is interesting if you combine this information with the Blue Zone work.Trailer for The Beautiful Truth:Blue

January 22, 2011 Life, Talk

Kevin Rose has launched a newsletter called Foundation which aims at conducting interviews of entrepreneurs, product reviews, providing access to beta’s and more. This newsletter is available for $3 per month or alternatively you can see the interviews for free a week later on Revision3, youtube or his own site.The first interview is with Jack Dorsey who invented Twitter. He discusses how he got into the project and his love for maps, cities and dispatching. Well worth a look.

January 4, 2011 Business, Talk

I have just watched an interesting ted talk from Barry Schwartz around rules and incentives and how they impact peoples output. As Schwartz discusses, this is not a new discovery however he explains some cases where allowing individual thinking can cause a dramatic improvements in peoples lives. I first discovered Schwartz from his book The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More which investigates why too much choice leaves us unsatisfied with our selection.

January 4, 2011 Education, Talk

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