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What really causes cancer?

http://www.ted.com/talks/mina_bissell_experiments_that_point_to_a_new_understanding_of_cancer.html

In this talk, Mina demonstrates how it was the environment around the cells (the Extra-Cellular-Matrix or ECM) that caused them to go malignant and start tumours. By placing the tumorous cells in better, calmer, more nurturing environments, the cells started behaving normally again and the cancer receded!

Skip to 9 mins 50 secs in the video to jump to the most revelatory part.

With this she's delivered a deadly blow to the "cancer gene" argument. If we really had cancer-causing genes, why does tumour only happen at one place?

It took me back to the Nature Vs Nurture explanation in ZMF. Lock a child in a classroom all day, restrict and monitor her every move, have someone else decide what's good for them and what's not, rule with an iron fist, and voila, you'll get agitated, violent children. Then find one gene that happens to be common among them, and voila, the "violent gene" has been found! Bullshit. Context matters.

Edit : This video on Cancer's forbidden cures blew my mind : So much has been deliberately hidden from the people by the pharmaceutical industry! This is criminal.
At the same time, this give a big leg-up to the traditional, herbal cures schools for healing cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWLrfNJICeM

Feedback for Univeral Subtitles Project

Background : This is an open-source project underway in Mozilla Drumbeat to create a wiki-way of adding subtitles, in any language, to any video. It addresses the long-felt need to crowd-source and make easy the taks of adding subtitles to videos worth sharing with all the people even if they're deaf or can't understand the original language.

I submitted this feedback there; posting it here for my own record as well. Basically brainstorming on ways to take the project forward - it needs some fresh work.


Check out my speech over there: http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/4R7tG8HlBO1C/
Thanks to this I could make several parts of it legible! (The audio was a bit obscure at places)


Feature Request: Please have a mode where I can simply enter the minute:seconds, enter the text, and specify either the duration or the end times, watching the video on the same page. Then in next stage I can simply make minute adjustments. (more ideas shared; expand this article to read all of them)

How India can defeat inflation and rising food prices

Read this article on Cuba's successful venture with in-city growing of food and how it became self-sufficient despite fuel shortages, trade embargoes, etc:

Peak Oil? Urban Farms? Cuba's Been There, Done It
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/08/27/CubasDoneIt/

And then watch this video, shot on a terrace in Mumbai, to see how we can convert Indian cities into self-sufficient food producers and DEFEAT inflation and rising prices!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJImcRYB_kU

Want to know more about how transformative self-help and organic living and farming can be? Take a look at the Lapodia Model, where just like Anna Hazare did, Laxman Singh from Lapodia village, Rajasthan gives a brilliant and refreshing talk on how they turned his defunct village into a model village :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3pRQk7bexs

Quoted from the article on top:

The plots were well-tended and bursting with food, there were shady spots to sit in, and none of the workers seemed too hard-pressed to stop what they were doing for a chat. One elderly farmer with a machete noticed how parched I was in the Caribbean sun and sliced me a delicious fresh coconut to drink. If this is the future of city food growing, I thought, bring it on.
"The world needs urban agriculture," Salcines said to put things in perspective.

Of course, it's not like we have much of a choice : http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Poverty_rises_as_food_prices_increase

Video: Why I advocate the Zeitgeist Movement

This Video shoot happened on day 2 of Z-Day Pune on 20 March 2011.

Thanks to Rishi for uploading this! Please visit the youtube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/rishigangoly
to see more such testimonials from ordinary people like you and me.

Want to know more about this thing? You can see short clips from the Zeitgiest movie (part 3 - moving forward) on my youtube channel :
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=56B6F90AC2A8868A

And you'll find a lot more in write-ups, content and interactivity on http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.in

And relax - it's not any cult or anything - in fact there's no formal structure at all. The essence of the movement is to move from top-down to bottom-up systems, where order and prosperity emerge naturally rather than us having to fight each other over it.

Want to catch the next event and rub shoulders with more people in the movement to transition to the next stage of mankind? Stay in touch here.

Video: Lapodia Model : not just organic farming; organic living!

This model can show the way towards the organic farming revolution that can cut out our over-dependence on petroleum-based fertilizers pesticides etc, reduce prices, increase corp yields, eliminate flood risks, and make our country healthy again! Bring it on, Lapodia!

Info: Laxman Singh from Lapodia village giving a brilliant and refreshing talk on how they turned his defunct village into a model village thanks to organic farming and sustainable community development.

Language : Hindi
Video shot during Renaissance 2011, a 3-day social entrepreneurship fest held at BITS Pilani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_India

My Contest Speeches

Expand this post to see the Videos of my contest speeches :)

Video : My crappy humorous Speech

I ain't particularly proud of this one, but hey, it's better than what You can do...

Toastmasters Videos!

Hi Friends,
I've been upto something lately.. Toastmasters.
Managed to get some videos up on youtube after lots of conversions n editing.. here's 2 of them!
Pls comment, and if you're on youtube, pls go to the original URL and rate the videos!

This is my 5th speech, the Illusion of Reality:



And this one's from our Installation ceremony.. when I was appointed VP membership of my club:



To know more about my club, check out:
http://jpkutoastmasters.bravehost.com/

What's toastmasters?? Find out on:
http://www.toastmasters.org/