More from TED.com  We measure progress, country by country, using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Michael Green suggests we try something new: measuring what really matters to citizens, things like education, rights, happiness, progress -- using a tool called the Social Progress Index. With charm and wit, he shows how this new tool reveals a dramatic reordering of nations. What country is a "social progress superpower"? Watch »  Antibiotic drugs save lives. But we simply use them too much — and often for non-lifesaving purposes, like (mis)treating the flu and even raising cheaper chickens. Result: the drugs stop working for everyone. Ramanan Laxminarayan calls on all of us, patients and doctors alike, to think of antibiotics -- and their ongoing effectiveness -- as a finite resource, and to think twice before we tap into it. It’s a sobering look at how global medical trends can strike home. Watch » |  Wouldn’t you want to know if your doctor was a paid spokesman for a drug company? Or held personal beliefs incompatible with the treatment you want? Right now, in the US at least, your doctor simply doesn’t have to tell you about that. And when physician Leana Wen asked her fellow doctors to open up, the reaction she got was … unsettling. Watch »  Vincent Moon travels the world with a backpack, a laptop and a camera, filming astonishing music and ritual the world rarely sees -- from a powerful Sufi ritual in Chechnya to an ayahuasca journey in Peru. He hopes his films can help people see their own cultures in a new way, to make young people say: "Whoa, my grandfather is as cool as Beyoncé." Followed by a mesmerizing performance by jazz icon Naná Vasconcelos. Watch » | |
