Jamie is taking this initiative to the next level.  On May 19th, the world celebrates Food Revolution Day.  Over 400 public events take place around the world.

Here’s a short video from Jamie explaining why and what Food Revolution Day is:

Food Revolution Day is a chance for people who love food to come together to share information, talents and resources; to pass on their knowledge and highlight the world’s food issues. All around the globe, people will work together to make a difference. Food Revolution Day is about connecting with your community through events at schools, restaurants, local businesses, dinner parties and farmers’ markets. We want to inspire change in people’s food habits and to promote the mission for better food and education for everyone.

Find a Food Revolution Day near you or host your own!  Sterling Health’s Amy Robinson will be at TEDxBayArea’s Food Rev Day celebration.  If you’re in San Fran we invite you to come by and join the conversation.  And did we mention there will be food?  Lots and lots of food.

How do we know what happens in the brain?

Technology and a little color turn out to be a great place to start.  Thanks to advancements in staining and imaging technoques, neuroscientists can make neurons show and glow.  Harvard researcher Jeff Lichtman has even modified a mouse to have a rainbow brain.   Today’s 5 minute TEDTalk by Carl Schoonover takes us on a brief journey through history before looking into the future of how we see what makes you who you are: the brain.

There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using gorgeous imagery, neuroscientist and TED Fellow Carl Schoonover shows the tools that let us see inside our brains.

Carl Schoonover is a neuroscientist and one of the founders of NeuWrite, a collaboration between writers and neuroscientist.

 

Anatomical landmarks are paired with embedded education, instructive and training information.  BioDigital Human is the most intuitive way to organize and navigate medical information.

Check out the video below. Whether you’re a med student or just curious about how the body works, BioDigital Human provides a comprehensive set of educational resources.

Use the toolbar, pictured below, to select functions.  Zoom, rotate, take snapshots and switch views.  You can even use a “dissect” feature to click and remove structures, allowing you to view underlying muscle layers, organs and other tissues.

Try it out.  You might learn something!

(HUNTSVILLE, Al) On Saturday morning, April 28 from 8:00 – 9:30 a.m., Huntsville Botanical
Garden will host Alabama’s Largest Yoga Class led by Katherine Orton as part of the Healthy
Huntsville initiative in partnership with Sterling Health. Best of all, the class is absolutely FREE!

Enjoy one of  Huntsville’s most beautiful locations as you relax and stretch your body.  Katherine leads you in a morning yoga routine that will leave you full of energy for your Saturday and Panoply weekend.

This event is beginner level and family friendly.  Complimentary snacks and beverages will be served after the class.

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The greatest value of TEDMED – “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design – is the people. Talking to strangers is encouraged, if not mandatory. TEDMED fuels my optimism that the coming years will be beyond imagination. Ideas happen here.

For example, over the past day and a half we learned about BioDigital Human, a free 3D anatomy tool created by NYU Medical School. Think of it as Google Body on steroids.

HBO announced The Weight of ,the Nation, a landmark hybrid 4 part documentary and public health program airing May 14-15, which aims to build a culture around living well. Check out the trailer and consider hosting a screening.

Cookie Monster made and appearance with ultra marathoner Scott Jurek. Yes, I do mean the blue creature from Sesame Street. U.S. Chief Technolgy Officer Todd Park shared visions of health collaborations and enlightened us with real progress toward overhauling healthcare from a volume-based pay-for-service system into a prevention-centric pay-for-value ecosystem. Innov8 in Cincinatti showcases this crowd-sourced idea vision in action. Albert-Lásló Barabasi , the creator of the crucial scientific concept scale-free networks, shared the paradigm-shifting idea of the creating a map or “instruction chart” for the immensely complex systems present in biological systems. The future starts today.

The key to solving big problems seems to rest in sharing ideas. Radical openness and uninhibited brainstorming not only create opportunities out of obstacles, but also facilitate the development great minds. Minds, after all, are the most valuable human asset. Fueled by the interactive experience of life we give rise to ideas and collaborations; actions and implementations. Scale the innovation created by TEDMED presenters into a social context and mankind’s capacity to change the world seems limitless. It doesn’t have to stop at TEDMED. It is actually just the beginning. Sterling Health invites you to share your big questions (the best questions lead to more questions). How would you change the world? Why do you care? What would you ask a TEDMED attendee?

Albert Einstein brilliantly stated that “imagination is a preview of life’s coming attractions.” We must dream the future before we can create it. Join the conversation and help create a healthier, happier world.

The next time you run your fingers through your hair, remember:

“Have you ever wondered why every person is unique? Could it be because our brains are wired differently? Our goal is to test this hypothesis by developing and applying technologies for finding connectomes, maps of connections between neurons.”

Neuroscientists at MIT, Harvard and several other Universities have come together to launch Wired Differently.  The project is described as a “‘citizen science’ community to test the hypothesis that the uniqueness of a person, from memories to mental disorders, lies in his or her connectome.”   This wonderful crowd-sourced project will empower anyone with an internet connection to help the world’s top neuroscientists organize hundreds of terabytes of data. You will even be able to play from an iPhone.

We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do — Drew Berry wants to change that. At TEDxSydney he shows his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within our own cells.

Drew Berry creates stunning and scientifically accurate animations to illustrate how the molecules in our cell move and interact.

via TED.com