TED: Can kids teach themselves?

Another great talk from TED that looks at how the human brain in built to learn.

Exploring the ocean’s hidden worlds from the comfort of your classroom

In a TED talk from March 2008 Robert Ballard paints the argument for increased exploration of the oceans here on planet Earth. 75% of the planet is covered in water, but we have mapped and explored a surprisingly small amount of it. He makes the point that we have maps of Venus and Mars but [...]