This is such useful information on the development of foetuses and ultimately the next generation. Our birth and the birth of our children influences our lives. Check out Matrix Birth Reimprinting for dealing with issues around birth and pre-conception.
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The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationship being discussed.
The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
What this woman hints at falls under the subject of epigenetics. Perhaps she had never heard of it before. I certainly agree with fetal learning, but she's really missing out on a really fascinating bit of genetic science.
@FooDanger - as a fourth born your mom probably hit the stage where she realized as long as your siblings were fed and not killing each other, it was a good day. Perhaps you are very comfortable amidst chaos as a result!
Not exactly what I'd call learning. Memorizing sure, but then every time I add something to my computers hard drive, IE memory, it would then qualify as learning it. Hell any way of storing information associated with a series of reactions, simplistic stimulus and response, would then be learning. Not exactly accurate, particularly when it's "what we learn". What "we" exactly?
Excellent lecture. If you think this is interesting. You may also enjoy the documentary "Zeitgeist Moving Forward" on youtube. My favorite documentary.
People in India already know about this , Read about Abhimanyu of Mahabharata to know the extent of this type of learning..(although its mythology) but its great fun reading about him and other character's capabilities too..Also, apart from these empirical qualities( west is good at measuring them..:) ) you can develop qualities like intuition etc too.
This isn't exactly groundbreaking. People knew about congenital alcoholism in the 90s. Why would it be shocking that diet, stress, and other environmental factors influence fetal development?
My mother lived in Holland during that siege. She was born in Dukkom in 1939. I often wondered the effect of the limited diet because she mentioned it many times I grew up. Her feet are quite large for her relatively short height. I always wondered if her height was a result of this nutrient deprivation.
Yeah, it's called "Pre-Heaven" in Chinese medicine and philosophy. Nice going with rediscovering this kind of logic after several thousands of years it has been around :-P
@JosephShiovitz The Pre-Heaven stuff in Chinese medicine/philosophy has a lot to do with Bagua theory. Google "Bagua" and you'll find lots of info. The martial of of Bagua Zhang also uses this theory, but you ought to read about "Bagua" as a standalone term...
My tastes are very different from my mother's! I find most of the food she eats to be too bland or gross in other ways. & I think she was an unreliable narrator in many ways. It's good to think about and figure out how to use this to my advantage now =)
Slow, overly-punctuated presentation using too much flowery language about a ridiculous topic. It was painful to watch frankly. Stick to being a parent "Mom" and let the scientists handle it.
@faunos51 Not really. We should be able to discuss the potential learning of a fetus without impacting the abortion debate. Knowing how well a fetus can learn and is impacted by its environment is valuable knowledge for assisting those fetus's that aren't aborted to get the best possible start. I am pro-choice, very much so, and this doesn't change that all. That said I'm 8 minutes in and starting to get a little bored. So it's not the most extraordinary talk.
The sad part is this info most likely will be used for making money; evolution has done it for millions of years and we are beginning to finding out how it does little final tweaks and tunes to your body to best adapt your future habitat taking into account your genetic info, but probably there is some sort of protective mechanism to avoid over reaction to stimuli so probably there is nothing that you can put on your pregnant belly to make your kid smarter or give him any edge in life.
@carlitosvodka yeah once we figure out exactly how it works, then we can think of something that actually has any effect not like all that expensive and useless trash. Clearly is not the aim of this talk but advertisement people always find a way to twist it all to make money and they always find the fools...btw this would go in tune with Freakonomics claims regarding decisions parents make.
This was not revealing, nor interesting, nor well brought, nor is she even a relevant scientist doing research in it... We are very far from our T, E and D
First, "science reporter" isn't a credential, imo. 99% of science I read in the papers is blown out of proportion.
Second, since when can you learn diabetes and heart disease and PTSD...
Some of this is interesting, like with food tastes and such, but the rest I'm taking with a grain of salt. Seriously, PTSD markers in kids who are now maybe 10-11 years old? Doubtful.
I wonder if this also contributes to some of the 1st born, 2nd born personality stereotypes. During the 1st pregnancy women are usually learning and consuming as much new information about pregnancy and parenting (high learner) as they can. They are also exhausted and seek out more solitary time. With the 2nd born, the learning curve is considered conquered and the mom has the 1st child to take care of so is almost always in a social mode with little solitary time.
Interesting information. Not surprising. Its a shame the speaker used a script. Her use of long, perfectly punctuated sentence (our writing voice) was a real distraction in her speaking voice of the address. Does anyone at TED offer these people public speaking coaching?
I'm just an ordinary High School / Secondary School student in Singapore and have been following TED for quite awhile now . It would really be so much more interesting not to mention beneficial , to have these speech , or better yet to have them replace the reading periods during the morning hours .
I hate when the use the word scientist. It's as if she is saying only the experts in the universe are saying. Kinda stupid when all scientists are paid for by monsantos and big corporations! Fucking scientist agree that Chemical weapons from ww1 heal cancer! Scientist agree that boiling water for electricity is safe alternate energy and it's safe to create a black hole in Holland. That's like letting your kids go with CPS to a Zoo for fun.
@Mystery207 Those are the *government funded* scientists, working for the corporations. There are plenty of scientists who dissagree with those ideas.
@ToxinalX Yes! that is true but they out number them 1 million to one. Some of these fuckers want to just make money and use their innovative power for inventing panty hose that run. Or better yet the Gas engine one of the worst inventions ever made!
@Mystery207 How was the Gas engine one of the worst inventions ever made ? I know that some of what it outputs can be bad, but I really don't think there where many other solutions avaible. Please educate me! ;)
On a side note, you probably guessed it, but I'm sort of a libertarian guy. As such, I don't want the government to become too deeply involved no matter what the scientists intentions are for as long as they don't harm other people or their property. But then of course, engines do that.
@ToxinalX Check out Adolf Diesel and his mysterious disappearance. Also make note that his first engine never ran on the petroleum based Diesel. We are lucky they got greedy and let his invention be used in trains.
@595o Why don't we just cut to the chase and replace it with religion. All measurements need a consensus. There is only one way to skin a cat and plenty of ways to win a chess match but if your alone in the woods and you fart only you can smell it. I'm just being facetious now! I know that does not make any sense.
Surprisingly interesting talk, but, please, no high heels when you constantly have to peer at your notes:) Some visual media would be good too rather than reading face on the screen all the time.
The part about hungry Dutch foetuses in WW2 resonated with the first part of the film Zeitgeist: Moving Forward about Human Nature. The scientific facts presented there outstanding.
Despite her journalism background, she explained the science in a much more moving and poignant way than most researchers. This talk made me better appreciate my own mother and the wonders of pregnancy.
Why is she using stories that have a propagandal background? Talking about the Netherlands in connection with Nazi germany, as well as the emotional flamboyant aftermath of the destruction of the WTC, appears to me like she is using these findings to subconsciously influence us in a negative way. The knowledge contained within is interesting though.
@jdroker Environmental signals are not just neurological. They include chemical, gustatory, olfactory, thermal, radiational and infrasonic waves. The mechanisms for last two are unknown due to failure to locate receptor/associated pathway.
@jdroker Cells themselves have memory, and the cells will be effected by the environment they are in, even before the nervous system. One example, cells will create more or less, of certain types of cell receptors based on feedback from the current receptors.
@jdroker well technically, the moment there is an environment, there is an effect that that environment has on even a single cell. Calling that "learning" is debatable.
@jdroker I would guess 7-5 months before birth when the fetus has actually developed a nervous system as you said and actually can process the informations its given. But maybe what she's talking about is the "building process" actually examines the mothers habits and surroundings and send hormones to the baby and therefor its "built" into their brains to react and expect different things like hunger, stress etc. So maybe it starts from day 1 :)
"Primavera, also known as Allegory of Spring, is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Painted ca. 1482, the painting is described in Culture & Values (2009) as "[o]ne of the most popular paintings in Western art".[1] It is also, according to Botticelli, Primavera (1998), "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world."
"While most critics agree that the painting, depicting a group of mythological figures in a garden, is allegorical for the lush growth of Spring, other meanings have also been explored. Among them, the work is sometimes cited as illustrating the ideal of Neoplatonic love."
Depends how you define learning... I'd rather suggesting watching Moving Forward by Peter Joseph. The first chapter goes much deeper than this talk and is more enjoyable to watch too.
I had a very traumatic event after being abandoned by my child's father and my family. I believe this affected my child before he was born. It's so sad. What can be done when catastrophes strike and we are so hurt, ill, frightened or alone?
As a single mother life was very difficult then. It's important for a child to have two parents, but it's easier now that mothers are not stigmatized if they are unmarried or alone. As adults, how do we pass down a life of peace and harmony to our children?
This is really good! I can appreciate my mother for some important contributions, like the way I like healthy foods, and don't like the taste of alcohol... GREAT STUFF, thank you!
interesting ideas. (not that "new" though) but she is boring..! I'd rather read about it myself than have some journalist read about it to me. bleh.. disappointed by this TED vid :(
@conillusionist I assume you mean miserable people such as yourself. I disagree, obviously. Tools like you and everyone else ( i include myself ) make the world pretty interesting.
This whole "new research" hype is annoying. You don't need to lie by calling something "new" to make it sound more interesting. This info has been in my school's psyc curriculum for a long time.
@ElmoNotty It's safe, u dont get into the uterus unless ur massively built, but its recommended not to have sex in the last 2 months as it can cause premature birth I think, u can look it up. If your kid is born with a big dimple in his chin while u had sex and ur wife was pregnant, u know where that one came from and u can compliment urself.
interesting ideas. Too bad the baby killers just had to spew in these comments. Talk about "sensitive". God forbid we acknowledge the scientific truth regarding an unborn child and their development while in the womb.
I wonder to what extent one can condition the unborn? This really reminds me of A Brave New World, where the unborn are conditioned to like their predetermined living conditions the government had planned for them.
Oh I knew about this. When my one sister was in the womb, her mother and father always had rock music on (specifically Kiss) and once born, she had an unusual liking to the band right off the bat.
as a guy who is anti-feminist, in anticipation of the pro-life arguments. If a pregnant women is goign through immense suffering at her third trimester, it may in fact be better to abort that child if the child will have severe complications in his or her later years.
This is such useful information on the development of foetuses and ultimately the next generation. Our birth and the birth of our children influences our lives. Check out Matrix Birth Reimprinting for dealing with issues around birth and pre-conception.
indigobeing56 3 weeks ago
Whoa!
BNL07604 1 month ago
Please learn how to pronounce Mozart! It's "Moht-zart" not "mows-art"
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The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
lightandbeautiful 1 month ago
Even babies can learn to skip the intro. 0:15.
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This one just kind of sucked.
Yony42 2 months ago
What this woman hints at falls under the subject of epigenetics. Perhaps she had never heard of it before. I certainly agree with fetal learning, but she's really missing out on a really fascinating bit of genetic science.
vlakieste 2 months ago
@FooDanger - as a fourth born your mom probably hit the stage where she realized as long as your siblings were fed and not killing each other, it was a good day. Perhaps you are very comfortable amidst chaos as a result!
PoulFamily 2 months ago
when you first breath =]
GrandMasterJuan 2 months ago
Not exactly what I'd call learning. Memorizing sure, but then every time I add something to my computers hard drive, IE memory, it would then qualify as learning it. Hell any way of storing information associated with a series of reactions, simplistic stimulus and response, would then be learning. Not exactly accurate, particularly when it's "what we learn". What "we" exactly?
dookiecheez 2 months ago
she slipped up and called a 'fetus' a 'baby' one time by accident. so which is it?
micahhewlett 2 months ago
@micahhewlett Is that important?
ZUNECARDSTV 2 months ago
Hahaha, babies suck!
squirreljester2 2 months ago
Excellent lecture. If you think this is interesting. You may also enjoy the documentary "Zeitgeist Moving Forward" on youtube. My favorite documentary.
efortune357 2 months ago 2
People in India already know about this , Read about Abhimanyu of Mahabharata to know the extent of this type of learning..(although its mythology) but its great fun reading about him and other character's capabilities too..Also, apart from these empirical qualities( west is good at measuring them..:) ) you can develop qualities like intuition etc too.
virudh681987 2 months ago
Message to Annie - Tie in this research with "The Biology of Perception" by Dr. Bruce Lipton
b29349 2 months ago
This isn't exactly groundbreaking. People knew about congenital alcoholism in the 90s. Why would it be shocking that diet, stress, and other environmental factors influence fetal development?
chngnisbbgy 2 months ago
My mother lived in Holland during that siege. She was born in Dukkom in 1939. I often wondered the effect of the limited diet because she mentioned it many times I grew up. Her feet are quite large for her relatively short height. I always wondered if her height was a result of this nutrient deprivation.
linzelj 2 months ago
GENIUS !!
twistedbass15 2 months ago
Yeah, it's called "Pre-Heaven" in Chinese medicine and philosophy. Nice going with rediscovering this kind of logic after several thousands of years it has been around :-P
jonathanbluestein 2 months ago
@jonathanbluestein You could provide any sources to learn more about this? Im having trouble finding any.
JosephShiovitz 2 months ago
@JosephShiovitz The Pre-Heaven stuff in Chinese medicine/philosophy has a lot to do with Bagua theory. Google "Bagua" and you'll find lots of info. The martial of of Bagua Zhang also uses this theory, but you ought to read about "Bagua" as a standalone term...
jonathanbluestein 1 month ago
60 people are fat kids
Prestonboy13 2 months ago
So its my moms fault that i'm fat. Gotcha.
SezSays 2 months ago
My tastes are very different from my mother's! I find most of the food she eats to be too bland or gross in other ways. & I think she was an unreliable narrator in many ways. It's good to think about and figure out how to use this to my advantage now =)
CatFlashBlue 2 months ago
Why is this boring speaking womans kitchen do full of people
cuervotaylor 2 months ago
Next TED talk may wake me up.
xcualquiera 2 months ago
Slow, overly-punctuated presentation using too much flowery language about a ridiculous topic. It was painful to watch frankly. Stick to being a parent "Mom" and let the scientists handle it.
sDrift7 2 months ago 2
@sDrift7 I agree with some of your critiques, but I find the topic very interesting and enjoyed the talk despite the flower language.
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what a jew broad, she doesn't suck dick
jay19xxx 2 months ago
Hidden anti abortionist propaganda bullshit.
faunos51 2 months ago
@faunos51 Not really. We should be able to discuss the potential learning of a fetus without impacting the abortion debate. Knowing how well a fetus can learn and is impacted by its environment is valuable knowledge for assisting those fetus's that aren't aborted to get the best possible start. I am pro-choice, very much so, and this doesn't change that all. That said I'm 8 minutes in and starting to get a little bored. So it's not the most extraordinary talk.
Dalmuros1234 2 months ago
What a waste of time! I love TED, but this was terrible. Some non -scientist talking about the blatantly obvious. C'mon TED.
sonofnietzsche1 2 months ago
@sonofnietzsche1 I agree. All along I thought she was going to reveal some new discovery.
wasimsworld 2 months ago
Someone give this woman a teleprompter
JohnnyKidder 2 months ago
The sad part is this info most likely will be used for making money; evolution has done it for millions of years and we are beginning to finding out how it does little final tweaks and tunes to your body to best adapt your future habitat taking into account your genetic info, but probably there is some sort of protective mechanism to avoid over reaction to stimuli so probably there is nothing that you can put on your pregnant belly to make your kid smarter or give him any edge in life.
intestinomedicino 2 months ago 3
@intestinomedicino damn right man, well probably not possible to give him an edge right now but maybe in the future.
carlitosvodka 2 months ago
@carlitosvodka yeah once we figure out exactly how it works, then we can think of something that actually has any effect not like all that expensive and useless trash. Clearly is not the aim of this talk but advertisement people always find a way to twist it all to make money and they always find the fools...btw this would go in tune with Freakonomics claims regarding decisions parents make.
intestinomedicino 2 months ago
@intestinomedicino yeah i guess you would like it if you were on the receiving end of the benefits
carlitosvodka 2 months ago
I can't stand seeing pregnant women smoking. Just pisses me off.
MrC0MPUT3R 2 months ago 12
very interesting stuff !!
VoiceOfAleppo 2 months ago
this chick has a nice body.
shawoody 2 months ago
Just another example of the mystical nature of human existence!
rogeryang38 2 months ago
interesting thank you for sharing
Shell4445 2 months ago
Prove it, at least show some video of testing
hubertcubeart 2 months ago
damn it i am not a girl so i cant manipulate my child if i ever have one the way i want it to be..... arg
haigfeinn 2 months ago
This was not revealing, nor interesting, nor well brought, nor is she even a relevant scientist doing research in it... We are very far from our T, E and D
DSDoomslayer 2 months ago
First, "science reporter" isn't a credential, imo. 99% of science I read in the papers is blown out of proportion.
Second, since when can you learn diabetes and heart disease and PTSD...
Some of this is interesting, like with food tastes and such, but the rest I'm taking with a grain of salt. Seriously, PTSD markers in kids who are now maybe 10-11 years old? Doubtful.
KemaTheAtheist 2 months ago
if the scarcity of food during development makes you more prone to obesity and other related diseases, would having plenty have the opposite effect?
mechacuddly 2 months ago
Lol why does the way she talk make me think of the babies as aliens :)
venkatchait007 2 months ago
I wonder if this also contributes to some of the 1st born, 2nd born personality stereotypes. During the 1st pregnancy women are usually learning and consuming as much new information about pregnancy and parenting (high learner) as they can. They are also exhausted and seek out more solitary time. With the 2nd born, the learning curve is considered conquered and the mom has the 1st child to take care of so is almost always in a social mode with little solitary time.
PoulFamily 2 months ago 23
@PoulFamily interesting hypothesis, never really thought of it that way.
conillusionist 2 months ago
@PoulFamily I'm a forth born with three older brothers... am I gonna be THAT stressed when I grow up?!
FooDanger 2 months ago
Interesting Ted. The speaker needs to work on her public speaking skills though.
jayhova 2 months ago
very interesting topic, thanks TED
LeGioNoFZioN 2 months ago
I need to call my mother and give her hell! I'm a mess...
chessdude67 2 months ago 54
@chessdude67 Ditto. Hahaha.
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Interesting information. Not surprising. Its a shame the speaker used a script. Her use of long, perfectly punctuated sentence (our writing voice) was a real distraction in her speaking voice of the address. Does anyone at TED offer these people public speaking coaching?
bpneagle 2 months ago
I'm just an ordinary High School / Secondary School student in Singapore and have been following TED for quite awhile now . It would really be so much more interesting not to mention beneficial , to have these speech , or better yet to have them replace the reading periods during the morning hours .
Sixthfred 2 months ago
@Sixthfred I second that.
13lend 2 months ago
I hate when the use the word scientist. It's as if she is saying only the experts in the universe are saying. Kinda stupid when all scientists are paid for by monsantos and big corporations! Fucking scientist agree that Chemical weapons from ww1 heal cancer! Scientist agree that boiling water for electricity is safe alternate energy and it's safe to create a black hole in Holland. That's like letting your kids go with CPS to a Zoo for fun.
Mystery207 2 months ago
@Mystery207 Those are the *government funded* scientists, working for the corporations. There are plenty of scientists who dissagree with those ideas.
ToxinalX 2 months ago
@ToxinalX Yes! that is true but they out number them 1 million to one. Some of these fuckers want to just make money and use their innovative power for inventing panty hose that run. Or better yet the Gas engine one of the worst inventions ever made!
Mystery207 2 months ago
@Mystery207 How was the Gas engine one of the worst inventions ever made ? I know that some of what it outputs can be bad, but I really don't think there where many other solutions avaible. Please educate me! ;)
On a side note, you probably guessed it, but I'm sort of a libertarian guy. As such, I don't want the government to become too deeply involved no matter what the scientists intentions are for as long as they don't harm other people or their property. But then of course, engines do that.
ToxinalX 2 months ago
@ToxinalX Check out Adolf Diesel and his mysterious disappearance. Also make note that his first engine never ran on the petroleum based Diesel. We are lucky they got greedy and let his invention be used in trains.
Mystery207 2 months ago
@Mystery207 He sure seems to have dissapeared, because I can't find anything about him really... :/ Any links perhaps?
ToxinalX 2 months ago
@ToxinalX Had the name wrong It's Rudolf Diesel and you'll get plenty of links with that name. Sorry My bad.
Mystery207 2 months ago
@Mystery207 What if you redefine scientist as someone using the scientific method?
595o 2 months ago
@595o Why don't we just cut to the chase and replace it with religion. All measurements need a consensus. There is only one way to skin a cat and plenty of ways to win a chess match but if your alone in the woods and you fart only you can smell it. I'm just being facetious now! I know that does not make any sense.
Mystery207 2 months ago
@Mystery207 Relativism much?
595o 2 months ago
@595o Existential Experience through observance of grammatical data and past linguistics applied through a mathematical formula of non consensuses
Mystery207 2 months ago
Surprisingly interesting talk, but, please, no high heels when you constantly have to peer at your notes:) Some visual media would be good too rather than reading face on the screen all the time.
The part about hungry Dutch foetuses in WW2 resonated with the first part of the film Zeitgeist: Moving Forward about Human Nature. The scientific facts presented there outstanding.
ivnat77 2 months ago
Terribly Boring.
moungy 2 months ago
I think this information was very fascinating, but she sounded so.. dull.
theNeverangel 2 months ago
Wait... this would mean that Luke would have been more susceptible to the dark side...
U83RH4X0R808 2 months ago
Mozart effect rebooted? Nice job at sucking. And I'm not referring to your mother's nipples.
juditK2007 2 months ago
i wish females knew that they're not supposed to have sex while pregnant.
mindnumber9 2 months ago
It's story time!
xKurogashi 2 months ago
Wow... apparently it's super insulting to read something rather than have it memorized. Who the fuck knew?
jussts 2 months ago
I'm not a child. I don't need someone to read to me. Please, next time, don't read verbatim from a piece of paper.
eagleeye1975 2 months ago
reading out a presentation !! bad idea.
yourtube20061 2 months ago
Despite her journalism background, she explained the science in a much more moving and poignant way than most researchers. This talk made me better appreciate my own mother and the wonders of pregnancy.
lleverfreell 2 months ago 3
Why is she using stories that have a propagandal background? Talking about the Netherlands in connection with Nazi germany, as well as the emotional flamboyant aftermath of the destruction of the WTC, appears to me like she is using these findings to subconsciously influence us in a negative way. The knowledge contained within is interesting though.
amaasbier 2 months ago
it all makes sense now.
watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
SuperAtheist 2 months ago
She's just reading a mostly memorized speech. Sorry, I hate that.
jgbloyd 2 months ago
well, maybe when the nervous system is developed enough, but not the whoooole nine months.
jdroker 2 months ago 17
@jdroker And you are foetal origins expert, huh?
patilsaurabhr 2 months ago
@patilsaurabhr Are you?
jdroker 2 months ago
@jdroker Environmental signals are not just neurological. They include chemical, gustatory, olfactory, thermal, radiational and infrasonic waves. The mechanisms for last two are unknown due to failure to locate receptor/associated pathway.
patilsaurabhr 2 months ago
@patilsaurabhr Well perhaps you may refere me to some place where I can read more about it.
jdroker 2 months ago
@patilsaurabhr Never mind I found a text about it, you're right.
jdroker 2 months ago
@jdroker Cells themselves have memory, and the cells will be effected by the environment they are in, even before the nervous system. One example, cells will create more or less, of certain types of cell receptors based on feedback from the current receptors.
Kastner86 2 months ago
@jdroker well technically, the moment there is an environment, there is an effect that that environment has on even a single cell. Calling that "learning" is debatable.
thinkahol 2 months ago
@jdroker I would guess 7-5 months before birth when the fetus has actually developed a nervous system as you said and actually can process the informations its given. But maybe what she's talking about is the "building process" actually examines the mothers habits and surroundings and send hormones to the baby and therefor its "built" into their brains to react and expect different things like hunger, stress etc. So maybe it starts from day 1 :)
Aminfo2u 2 months ago
my existence counters all her points she made
seigfreeg 2 months ago
Janeane Garofalo
carterCMG 2 months ago 2
some of this was featured on an episode of QI a couple weeks ago. Pretty intriguing stuff, but not as shocking as the start made it seem.
Dixavd 2 months ago
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superoriginalname 2 months ago
see epigenetics
theoneintheyellowhat 2 months ago
My pregnant with me mom, must have read a lot of porno
DanielManahan 2 months ago
Why is she reading the whole thing...? A TED speaker should be more well prepared.
aquamus 2 months ago 2
What I learned Before I was Born.
DONT DIS DA TECHNO MUSIC.
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
"Primavera, also known as Allegory of Spring, is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Painted ca. 1482, the painting is described in Culture & Values (2009) as "[o]ne of the most popular paintings in Western art".[1] It is also, according to Botticelli, Primavera (1998), "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world."
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
"While most critics agree that the painting, depicting a group of mythological figures in a garden, is allegorical for the lush growth of Spring, other meanings have also been explored. Among them, the work is sometimes cited as illustrating the ideal of Neoplatonic love."
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
Shiloh, is so great, Love them!
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
This will be mistafieds (Tommy) Last Youtube Epic Ownage!
Many of you all should have understood what this woman was saying o back in the 90s, before the internet took off.
I did!
Music Rules!
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
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Shiloh - Primavera (Luke Chable's Return of the 3am Drop Remix)
/watch?v=mcm15zEhJB8
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
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Tommy is here, to do what human beings should have done over 100 years ago.
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
Chris Anderson: How YouTube is driving innovation
/watch?v=LnQcCgS7aPQ
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
Never show ones Poker face, and hey, who said it was for me?
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
The world is what you make of it.
nccmrm97 2 months ago
@nccmrm97
What if earth is not my world?
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
@LUVYOUSTILL I did not mention the earth.
nccmrm97 2 months ago
@nccmrm97
Then were are we?
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
@LUVYOUSTILL Your world is your world.
nccmrm97 2 months ago
@nccmrm97
Maybe. Maybe not. I dont believe as many of you do online here.
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
@nccmrm97
It's ok thou, one day you all will get it.
Just stop being affraid to communcate and be honest with each other online.
It is ok people.
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
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@LUVYOUSTILL "one day you all will get it." - Fuck off you condescending cunt.
TheSpankymonkey 2 months ago
@nccmrm97
The Cosmos is much bigger then a world.
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The Greatest Speech Ever Made
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EternalApologies 2 months ago
Wow we can so feel your energy and enthusiasm..
bhamel2000 2 months ago
Hello
LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
My wife went on a House binge during pregnancy, now my baby boy loves teardrop by massive attack.
Fading1 2 months ago
Since when did janeane garofalo know so much about babies?
Kirbynessness 2 months ago
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LUVYOUSTILL 2 months ago
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Q- When does learning begin?
A- Who cares?!!
tdreamgmail 2 months ago
Depends how you define learning... I'd rather suggesting watching Moving Forward by Peter Joseph. The first chapter goes much deeper than this talk and is more enjoyable to watch too.
Esrhan 2 months ago
Babys SUCK!
OmnicideX 2 months ago
Motz-art, Annie, not Moez-art. Interesting with thousands of implications.
BrotherWoody1 2 months ago
Took until 2:30 for her to finish prefacing her idea. Took me about half a second to read the title and not need that preface.
LuckyMarketGameplay 2 months ago 22
@LuckyMarketGameplay exactly. And it's not that a whole lot of information followed the introduction
ennot 2 months ago
I had a very traumatic event after being abandoned by my child's father and my family. I believe this affected my child before he was born. It's so sad. What can be done when catastrophes strike and we are so hurt, ill, frightened or alone?
As a single mother life was very difficult then. It's important for a child to have two parents, but it's easier now that mothers are not stigmatized if they are unmarried or alone. As adults, how do we pass down a life of peace and harmony to our children?
CommentsSurvey 2 months ago
This is really good! I can appreciate my mother for some important contributions, like the way I like healthy foods, and don't like the taste of alcohol... GREAT STUFF, thank you!
DanielLionheart1 2 months ago
interesting ideas. (not that "new" though) but she is boring..! I'd rather read about it myself than have some journalist read about it to me. bleh.. disappointed by this TED vid :(
mamemimoma 2 months ago
@mamemimoma I really agree. She speaks much too slow.
DarkAura971 2 months ago
Excellent overview of the topic :)
@conillusionist I assume you mean miserable people such as yourself. I disagree, obviously. Tools like you and everyone else ( i include myself ) make the world pretty interesting.
098anne 2 months ago
Topic/Theme is damn good !
But for a better presentation one should be more lively with emotions rather than reading something which have been written on a paper....!
dukesphiltre 2 months ago 2
This whole "new research" hype is annoying. You don't need to lie by calling something "new" to make it sound more interesting. This info has been in my school's psyc curriculum for a long time.
Slashtap3 2 months ago
so... Can we have sex during pregnancy? or how it'd effect the baby later? @@
ElmoNotty 2 months ago
@ElmoNotty It's safe, u dont get into the uterus unless ur massively built, but its recommended not to have sex in the last 2 months as it can cause premature birth I think, u can look it up. If your kid is born with a big dimple in his chin while u had sex and ur wife was pregnant, u know where that one came from and u can compliment urself.
BrutusAlbion 2 months ago
@BrutusAlbion i ment as will it affect baby's personality later on?XD like the taste or hearing examples mentioned in the video
ElmoNotty 2 months ago
@ElmoNotty Yes you can. The baby is above the cervix, while penile penetration is only in the vagina. This doesn't hurt the baby.
stainglassfox 2 months ago
Marketing is going ape shit over this. Ads for the unborn will be the next big thing.
Viktor0viktor0viktor 2 months ago
too long :P
OCUBOX 2 months ago
What is this marker of PTSD she's talking about?
mylene0wnt 2 months ago
@mylene0wnt Cortisol, from what I could find. See Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume 1071, Issue 1, pages 454–458, July 2006.
etacitsongorp 2 months ago
@etacitsongorp thank you for the reference of the article!
mylene0wnt 2 months ago
dem high heels
arthur78 2 months ago 3
very interesting...
Rileyportbay 2 months ago
interesting ideas. Too bad the baby killers just had to spew in these comments. Talk about "sensitive". God forbid we acknowledge the scientific truth regarding an unborn child and their development while in the womb.
pfzx3 2 months ago
Journalist is not equal to scientist, too much bullshit and anecdotes
qttytn 2 months ago
I wonder to what extent one can condition the unborn? This really reminds me of A Brave New World, where the unborn are conditioned to like their predetermined living conditions the government had planned for them.
justicetrooper 2 months ago
please don't let journalists speak about technology and science. Not on TED. They just don't have anything original to say about science.
This person can't even talk about this stuff - she needs to read it to us.
ennot 2 months ago 24
@ennot
unfortunately, this does sound more like a book report
mellamosean 2 months ago
Oh I knew about this. When my one sister was in the womb, her mother and father always had rock music on (specifically Kiss) and once born, she had an unusual liking to the band right off the bat.
brainstew0 2 months ago 2
as a guy who is anti-feminist, in anticipation of the pro-life arguments. If a pregnant women is goign through immense suffering at her third trimester, it may in fact be better to abort that child if the child will have severe complications in his or her later years.
conillusionist 2 months ago
I knew I should have taken French at second trimester...
sc247 2 months ago 10
Nazi AND 9/11 anecdotes. A bit much?
TheGerogero 2 months ago
Interesting, but dragged on for a bit too much
frunchzz 2 months ago
Learning starts as soon as there are any brain cells.
Nothing new here, now move along...
Ilamarea 2 months ago 5
@Ilamarea Never mind thought, this is amazing and you should watch it all.
Ilamarea 2 months ago
2:53 stumbling around my dear? who told you you have to wear high heels for a ted talk.
georgemargaris 2 months ago 4
Good Stuff, Great Talk!
zombiesmasher 2 months ago
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timelordcreation 2 months ago
0:15
MGordge 2 months ago 79
third/
slaughtz 2 months ago
In before irrelevant abortion argument.
AmusingYeti 2 months ago 80
0:15 for those of you too lazy to watch the intro
ckellingc 2 months ago