Reconsidering beauty | Jill Helms | TEDxStanford

Jill Helms is a professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Stanford School of Medicine. She leads a team of investigators, funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, who are working on accelerating tissue healing in humans by activating a patient's own stem cells at the site of an injury. The team's strategy is to "commandeer" the molecular machinery that regulates stem cell self-renewal and proliferation and, in doing so, stimulate tissue regeneration even in people whose own repair mechanisms aren't working well.

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[sue]

Wonderful talk, Jill!!! I’m in tears!!!

[cindyhalpern]

Both my brothers were in wheelchairs. Some assumed brightness is determined by mobility.
My older brother graduated from college. My younger brother made First Honors in School.
People who couldn't look beyond the wheelchair to see possibilities were the ones who were limited!

[carol-jeanteuffel]

Thank you, Jill.
For sharing your humanity and challenging us to be more.
Carol-Jean/San Luis Obispo, Ca

[sheilasanchez]

Best TEDxStanford talk this year!!!  Beautifully articulated:)

[moeneth]

amazing speech, such an inspiring for young doctors :)

[cheekymonkey]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.💝

[AyubKhan-qxsd]

well Appreciated informative knowledge with good sharing ..She is very talented in her deep understanding all about beauty and Feelings beautiful person by self the way she has expressed her beautiful thoughts intelligently . with Regards

[DaKussh]

ugliness doesn't exist, there is only exotic beauty

[pongespob]

Ever notice that TED speakers are always photogenic?

[janekofurog]

I believe the golden ratio was relatively discovered and foremost utilized by the Greeks not that only Pythagoras and that the Mona Lisa was done by Leonardo da Vinci 😅

[robertwilsoniii]

Pause at 5:50 to see the "average faces from each country."

[alandouglasbr]

that's upsetting. This is an intelligent speech, but it disencourage us to look for beauty beyond outer appearance

[_nuance]

Average attributes doesn't equal average looks. Average looking people doesn't have average attributes they have some kind of deviations from average, over or bellow.

[PaulaJosic]

I couldn't agree more, beauty isn't something that is determined by genetics :)

[erikbarrett]

I'm only crying cuz a the adrenaline

[unionicorn]

So is the moral of the story is that we should judge a book by its cover? That is a slippery slope to starting to believe in eugenics and even racial profiling. Disgraceful. Glad she turned it around at the end there.... people are too quick to judge and don’t take the time to see the beauty in every face.

[ChandIerMBing]

Yet ironically enough she kinda looks like she had plastic surgery, just guessing though I might be wrong there of course.