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www.ted.com Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he’s drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
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www.ted.com In this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification — and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the marshmallow.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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Why can’t stuff be sold in cardboard boxes again? Everything is packaged in huge amounts of plastic!
I actually don’t firmly believe it’s impossible to clean up the waste, or at list a good potion of it. Millions of people around the world are willing to help voluntarily. We should start by removing the larger items. The biggest difficulties are due to the fact that the garbage goes up and down the whole water column for miles. Also, the garbage breaks down into tiny fragments, this poses a major challenge.
@ktougodno The wish is the father of the thought. You WISH it was fake.
Maybe invent a large slow robot with a long arm, that drives along the beach picking up foreign objects like plastic? It’s a tedious and frustrating task (like washing something that gets dirty again in 5 mins), perfect for a machine.
@ktougodno
I assume you meant the large plastic bottle field filling the whole picture. The two other images following that seems plausible, Ive seen garbage in such amounts were I live.
“here imaged by TED presenter Chris Jordan” it says underneath. This was a photshop to underline a point. Like a picture of a gazillion oil barrels next to a skyscraper to show consumption.
This is just pathetic.
The reality of what is being done to our world makes me sick. In our oceans the trash floats around in a patch twice the size of Texas going far beneath the water, mutating the species it doesn’t kill.
Even though I do believe that oceans are being polluted, but those photographs are fake. Look at the lined grid how the caps are placed. Total fake. Another Illuminati boo-boo they think we are total dorks. Hey there, on the top of the pyramid-do better job than this or 3D animations produced by Al Gorelione-Global Warming Pope.
I think straining ocean waters for plastic should be done. it can’t be any worse than throwing plastic away in the ocean. We should try.
Decent presentation of a big problem, but offers no steps towards a solution. All he says is to stop doing it.
Throughout history the nations have been ruining the earth by their incessant warfare and bad management. Since 1914, however, this ruination has escalated to an alarming degree. The air we breathe and the water we drink are contaminated. Industrial wastes threaten life on land and in the sea.Happily, Jehovah will bring to ruin those ruining the earth; he will execute judgment on those proud, godless humans who are responsible for earths sorry state.
Throughout history the nations have been ruining the earth by their incessant warfare and bad management. Since 1914, however, this ruination has escalated to an alarming degree. The air we breathe and the water we drink are contaminated. Industrial wastes threaten life on land and in the sea.Happily, Jehovah will bring to ruin those ruining the earth; he will execute judgment on those proud, godless humans who are responsible for earths sorry state.
Throughout history the nations have been ruining the earth by their incessant warfare and bad management. Since 1914, however, this ruination has escalated to an alarming degree. The air we breathe and the water we drink are contaminated. Industrial wastes threaten life on land and in the sea.Happily, Jehovah will bring to ruin those ruining the earth; he will execute judgment on those proud, godless humans who are responsible for earths sorry state.
We just need to be more aware of our choices. I live by the ocean and pick up trash on the beach everyday. It is annoying, but I won’t stop until there is no more trash to pick up. Leah O.
El consumo vertiginoso del ser humano está superando las peores pesadillas de saturación del planeta con materiales ajenos a su naturaleza, creados por el hombre, sin medir las consecuencias.
Obliguemos a reciclar, el plástico está matando nuestros animales!
Debemos exigir a las autoridades que obliguen a las corporaciones que utilizan plástico para la venta de sus productos que creen la logística necesaria para recibir nuevamente esos envases y hacerlos llegar a las fábricas para su reciclado.
El consumo indiscriminado de productos envasados en todo tipo de plástico en el momento actual ya deja de ser un elemento de confort para convertirse en un arma mortal para la fauna marina y las aves.
Why don’t you kill yourself?
He actually does not seem optimistic at all. It is quite heart breaking.
we already are being killed off
this is maddness, we need to be killed off
Plastics will be the end of humans.
lets not just blame this on those that live by the pacific ocean. if its not going in the ocean, it’s destroying land environments by going in some LANDFILL. being that the world is only 30% land, this is going to fill up fast. everyone needs to take the blame and then take action!
Thanks for making my point for me. And you don’t have to respond. I already know that you won’t get it……………
i don’t think you can blame one country or just people living around the pacific ocean. this is everyone’s problem if we are to assign blame lets start with those that profit from the plastics industry.
i think i ate the marshmallow right away when i was a kid…
that girl is like huffing the marshmallow. hilarious
Very funny — deferred fatification
God would have eaten it.
Well, there are more coke consumers in the US and in Europe than in Colombia.
It’s not too late to educate those Wall Street Sharks. Just don’t use their brand of money, and don’t do business with anyone else who does.
Sure, this will take time, but that is what “delayed gratification” is all about.
this could help parents in parenting actually.
it’d tell you what your child is lacking and not :D
this is cruel :)
it’s ignoring too many variables such as prior parental guidance
YEAH
What is the vocal performance at the end of this video? I’d like the whole thing = ]
Bryan and Gabriela ,I want share this video with you.;Think about it.;….
OOOOPS i SPELLED IT WRONG, anyways come see the OTHER VERSION OF the marshmallow video, it is Funny!
Check out this other version of “dont eat the marshmellow” it is funny it is don’t eat the marshmellow until you are married making fun of abstinence only education, teaching abstinence is GREAT but as the only choice, that is not education
It was new – 40 years ago – because it hadn’t been scientifically proven before.
What’s with the trippy stuff at the end?
My parents always bought identical snacks for my brother and me. My brother would always ask me to share mine with him first, with the promise that he would share his with me late. Of course, he would then eat his in secret.
If we were in this experiment together, I’d end up eating half a marshmallow while he has two and a half.
I would have passed with flying colours, marshmallows always made me feel sick, now chocolate on the other hand, I would have failed, or maybe not because if there was the promise of double the chocolate, it’s hard to say, I’ll have to try it on my own kids.
that little chica huffing her marshmallow around 4 min. was pretty funny
what a load of bogus. This has nothing to do with real scientific research.
“this applies to everything.” this applies to children and marshmallows. A marshmallow is nothing but a marshmallow and it doesn’t matter if you get two or one you’re still going to want another and another and they’re free and children know this. real gratification never comes from a man dealing you marshmallows with life lessons inside. gratification is something you make yourself, and yes, even kids know this.
True. But it’s just a factor that is possibly more significant than at first thought maybe. So it’s just an experiment that leads to certain results.
Succes or any goal in life are a product of many different factors. One out of place can be recovered by others, too many out of place can result in not achieving this goal.
LOL love the video. and great scientific study!
LOL!
Wish those sharks in the Wall Street had learned this wisdom before the economy collapsed.
Thats funny. But i would like to see some facts about the children and their parents. Like a home income. I think that most of the “succesful” kids probibly had parents with a higher income than the “unsuccesful”. For two resons. Parents with a high paying job usually have more time to raise their kids. And they also have the money to put their children through college. Just a thought.
Sorry for the broken english. Its bin a while since iv’e used english.