Cheryl Martin

  5 KEY PRINCIPLES OF CREATIVITY BY MARK BATEY TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” It supports independent organizers who want to create a TED-like event in their own community. Mark Batey is a highly published researcher in creativity. In his talk, Mark defines the subtle difference between creativity and innovation. He then proceeds to break down the 5 key principles which underlie these 2 phenomena. These principles have been applied and have changed the lives of thousands of children, students and executives. The purpose of this is to create awareness; and give the world a clearer idea of how to implement the principles in order to explore new ideas and innovations and how to use the technology Creativity can come in many forms, and creativity can be achieved, through acquiring different methods. But for those that seem to procrastinate on things, this process of being creative doesn’t come in easy. Well, here to help all those ...

  How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel Rodin Lyasoff in the late 90s was studying aerospace and many people told him, Aerospace is boring, everything in aerospace has already been done. He felt that they were a little bit off the mark. And in fact, I think the next decade is going to be another golden age for aviation. For one thing, and this is where he got excited, flight is about to get a lot more personal. In the last century, large commercial airplanes have connected cities across the globe. And 100 years ago, it would have been unthinkable for all of us to fly here from around the world for a five-day conference. But it did, and most probably without a second thought. And that's a remarkable achievement for humanity. But on a day-to-day basis, we still spend a lot of time in cars or actively trying to avoid it. Some of my best friends live in San Francisco, He lived in Mountain View, about 40 miles away. We're all busy. At the end of the day, we...

 HOW BOREDOM CAN LEAD TO YOUR MOST BRILLANT IDEAS In today’s technology-filled world, it’s rare that you ever experience true boredom. But experiencing boredom may actually help a person succeed, according to TED Talk speaker and podcast host Manoush Zomorodi and the scientists she’s spoken with over the years. In her 2017 TED Talk titled “How Boredom Can Lead to Your Most Brilliant Ideas,” Zomorodi explains the connection between boredom, creativity and innovation. In her quest to find out what happens to our brains when we’re bored, Zomorodi reached out to neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. “It turns out that when you get bored, you ignite a network in your brain called the ‘default mode,’” she says in her speech. Although our body goes on autopilot while doing mundane tasks like folding laundry or walking into the office, our brains are hard at work. Boredom researcher Sandi Mann breaks down how this works in an audio message. “Once you start daydreaming and allow your...

  The Invention of a Gel which stops bleeding instantly Joe Landolina is a young, full time student at New York University, at age 17 he invented of a gel that can instantly stop traumatic bleeding — without the need to apply pressure. He created a gel that forms a clot within ten seconds and permanently heals the wound within few minutes. The gel is made up of tiny individual plant polymers; the gel is injected into the wound site. Once it hits the damaged tissue, whether it's open skin or a biopsied soft organ like livers, kidneys, spleens — the gel instantly forms a mesh-like structure, this simply means that the gel will make a very strong adhesive that hold the wound on the skin together. In simple word, when applied to an open wound, Veti-Gel bonds to the surrounding flesh, forming a tight seal. Not only does the gel initiate the blood clotting process, it also speeds healing . On the other hand the mesh like a matrix structure helps the body produce fibrin at the w...

A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami Manu Prakash an Indian bio engineer a student of from Stanford University who was on mission to bring radical new technology to global health, once he traveled to a mosquito-infested rainforest in Thailand a couple of years ago, there he visited a clinic where there were $100,000 microscope that sat idle in a locked room. It was then Prakash realized that what global health workers really need is a low cost, simple-to-use, portable microscope that could be arranged in the field to diagnose disease and decided to develop one himself. As a result he developed a Foldscope - a ‘use and throwaway’ microscope that Prakash made out of thick, waterproof paper and a glass, polymer lens that’s the size of a large grain of sand. While it can be used by simply holding the device up to the sun or a light bulb, there’s also a version illuminated by tiny LEDs powered by an inexpensive watch battery. The framework of the Foldscope is printed onto a sh...