Forum - Sixty Second Idea to Improve the World

Forum - Sixty Second Idea to Improve the World episodes:

• 02.29.2016

  Give up shoes and go barefoot

  Antony Gormley instructs us all to give up shoes and go barefoot. At a time of global warming, with naked feet you can actually feel it. He has gone barefoot for a year and says that if you dispense with...

  
• 02.29.2016

  Fast for one day a week!

  Frances Ashcroft wants us to fast once a week. In the face of a global obesity epidemic with the resulting increase in diabetes, fasting would help us regulate our appetite and allow us to live longer. Fasting is cheap,...

  
• 02.29.2016

  Women to talk first

  Silja Omarsdottir suggests that for one day a year, no man is allowed to talk in a meeting before having heard a woman's opinion first. Silja says that a woman tends to wait her turn to speak, but a...

  
• 02.29.2016

  Replace schoolbooks with objects

  Underwater archaeologist Peter Campbell suggests getting rid of school books and instead giving students a Rosetta stone, a Roman spear, or moon rock. The most popular exhibits in the British Museum are those that allow people to touch historical artefacts....

  
• 02.29.2016

  Turn off the lights

  There should be one day a year when everyone switches off all lights on earth to create complete darkness, suggests astronomer Anna Frebel. This would allow us to marvel at the wonder of the universe, appreciate the stars and the...

  
• 02.26.2016

  Sleep Vertically!

  Structural Engineer Hanif Kara believes that if we could find a way of adapting the human body to sleep vertically, we would eliminate a lot of the world’s pressing problems. A single adult takes about 7 m2 of bedroom space...