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Weekly dose of TED – Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the shark

Posted on March 25, 2011March 25, 2011 By Andrew Thaler
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All this month we’ve be showing talks about how nature and evolution have inspired technology and design. I’d like to end with this talk by Jim Toomey, about how the nature simply inspires us as human beings. What stories have the oceans shared with you?

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