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The moon's path is full of thorns: Fellows Friday with Johnson Urama

Nigerian astronomer Johnson Urama wants to promote the future of astronomy in Africa by looking deep into history. With his African Cultural Astronomy Project, he is gathering the lost ancient astronomical traditions and stories of indigenous Africa, hoping to show modern Africans that the science of the skies is relevant to their past, presen...

Posted November 1, 2013

What advice do you wish you'd gotten when you graduated from college? 25 TED speakers answer.

Whether you put on your cap and gown last week -- or last century -- these honest answers can give you some insight and guidance. "If you don't know what you want to do with the rest of your life, you're not a failure. Give yourself time and get yourself experience to figure things out." -- Angela Duckworth (TED Talk: Grit -- the power of pass...

Posted May 22, 2018

TEDxNorthbrookLibrary - an independently organized event

About this event: Our December TEDx event (as voted by you!) is "Celebrating Diversity" Post Event Recap: After a brief introductory TEDx video, three TED Talks were screened: -Documentary Filmmakers Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols, "This is what LGBT Life is like Around the World" -Investment Expert Mellody Hobson, "Color Blind or Color Brave?" -Comedian, Journ...

Event details: Northbrook, Illinois, United States · December 16, 2015

Beyoncé samples Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TEDx message on surprise album

Beyoncé must love surprises. Because late last night, she unexpectedly dropped her fifth studio album, Beyoncé, on iTunes. It's what she's calling a "visual album," and it features 14 songs and 17 music videos -- including a song about her daughter, Blue Ivy, and guest appearances from husband Jay-Z, pals Justin Timberlake and Frank Ocean and...

Posted December 13, 2013

Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls: Leymah Gbowee at TED2012

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Leymah Gbowee is a 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Today, she speaks around the world, and people ask about her drive, challenges, moments, and regrets. In 1998 she was a single mother of 4. Three months after her fourth child's birth, she went to do work as a research assistant in a small village in north...

Posted March 2, 2012

Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?

As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.

Kailash Satyarthi: How to make peace? Get angry

How did a young man born into a high caste in India come to free 83,000 children from slavery? Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi offers a surprising piece of advice to anyone who wants to change the world for the better: Get angry at injustice. In this powerful talk, he shows how a lifetime of peace-making sprang from a lifetime of ou...

Words of wisdom from mothers, recorded at StoryCorps

When someone makes a StoryCorps interview, they'll usually talk about the most important people in their lives, remember the best and worst moments they've lived through, and pass on wisdom they've gleaned over the years. So it comes as no surprise that memories of parents are often the star of the show. Our facilitators tell us that even pe...

Posted May 6, 2015

Jon Ronson: When online shaming goes too far

Twitter gives a voice to the voiceless, a way to speak up and hit back at perceived injustice. But sometimes, says Jon Ronson, things go too far. In a jaw-dropping story of how one un-funny tweet ruined a woman's life and career, Ronson shows how online commenters can end up behaving like a baying mob -- and says it's time to rethink how we inte...

Peter Saul: Let's talk about dying

We can't control if we'll die, but we can "occupy death," in the words of Peter Saul, an emergency doctor. He asks us to think about the end of our lives -- and to question the modern model of slow, intubated death in hospital. Two big questions can help you start this tough conversation.

3 lessons about what really matters in life, learned in the pandemic

The last 6 months have been like no other. Since March 2020, every person on the planet has had their life shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic in some way. In the midst of the hardship and challenges, there's been the sense among many people that this period has helped us evaluate our lives and focus on what's truly important. And maybe, just ...

Posted September 10, 2020

Robert Full: Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity

Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what's necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals' tricks.

Black Lives Matter: A playlist of powerful StoryCorps interviews

Ghetto Life 101 changed my life. I started working on this radio documentary 25 years ago — I gave tape recorders to two kids growing up in the Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago, one of the most notorious public housing projects in America, and asked them to document a week in their lives. LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman were 13 and 14 years old a...

Posted August 26, 2015

Sarah Jones: A one-woman global village

In this hilariously lively performance, actress Sarah Jones channels an opinionated elderly Jewish woman, a fast-talking Dominican college student and more, giving TED2009 just a sample of her spectacular character range.

David Brooks: The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live

Our society is in the midst of a social crisis, says op-ed columnist and author David Brooks: we're trapped in a valley of isolation and fragmentation. How do we find our way out? Based on his travels across the United States -- and his meetings with a range of exceptional people known as "weavers" -- Brooks lays out his vision for a cultural re...

César Hidalgo: A bold idea to replace politicians

César Hidalgo has a radical suggestion for fixing our broken political system: automate it! In this provocative talk, he outlines a bold idea to bypass politicians by empowering citizens to create personalized AI representatives that participate directly in democratic decisions. Explore a new way to make collective decisions and expand your unde...

ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!

For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan walks through a simple lesson in recognizing the ideas behind the characters and their meaning -- building from a few simple forms to more complex concepts. Call it ...

Elizabeth Gilbert: It's OK to feel overwhelmed. Here's what to do next

If you're feeling anxious or fearful during the coronavirus pandemic, you're not alone. Offering hope and understanding, author Elizabeth Gilbert reflects on how to stay present, accept grief when it comes and trust in the strength of the human spirit. "Resilience is our shared genetic inheritance," she says. (This virtual conversation is part o...

Why women still get killed for love

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, who won the 2016 Oscar for Best Documentary Short, explains why she feels it's her duty to focus on topics others shy away from ... like honor killings. Film has a way of revealing the soul of each person you see onscreen, giving a human face to issues that might otherwise only be expressed as a headline or a statistic. I...

Posted March 15, 2016

Conversations with People Who Hate Me: The Trans Ban

Tyler Gilmore is a veteran of the Marines who vocally expressed his support for the trans ban. In this episode Dylan connects him to Maddie Makara, a veteran who served for 16 years and recently came out as a trans woman (Audio Only).

TEDxTauranga - an independently organized event

About this event: It started with a shady looking character wondering onto stage… he's our stand-in MC for the day? He clears the stage for our mihi from Pahu Akuhata, our respected local Kaumatua from Ngati Ranginui and Kapahaka performance from Arataki School. The bright smiling faces and thumping feet build energy in the room and we're all focused for the day...

Event details: Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand · August 19, 2016

Thinking about life after death: Q&A with Daniel Ogilvie

Daniel Ogilvie was shocked when his 4-year-old daughter ran out of her bedroom screaming, "I don't want to be a thing that dies." But every child goes through this moment of recognizing their mortality. A Rutgers University professor who has studied philosophy for the past 25 years, Ogilvie has become fascinated with our beliefs about death ...

Posted July 12, 2012

James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'

It's called the "Flynn effect" -- the fact that each generation scores higher on an IQ test than the generation before it. Are we actually getting smarter, or just thinking differently? In this fast-paced spin through the cognitive history of the 20th century, moral philosopher James Flynn suggests that changes in the way we think have had surpr...

Beware of "Feminism Lite"

Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls out Feminism Lite -- "a hollow, appeasing and bankrupt idea." A few years ago, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend and new mother, asking her how she could raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Adichie's new book, Dear Iljeawele, is her response, and it contain...

Posted March 7, 2017

When education is not a given: 10 inspiring talks

From age 6 through age 11, Shabana Basij-Rasikh risked her life to go to school. The Taliban had banned girls in Afghanistan from studying at universities and other educational institutions and, thus, Basij-Rasikh dressed as a boy, posing as an escort for her older sister. Together, the two would place their books in grocery bags and sneak off t...

Posted February 11, 2013

Anita Collins: The benefits of music education

In this talk, musician and educator Anita Collins makes a passionate case for music education as an indispensable part of school curricula, describing how learning to play music is the neurological equivalent of a full-body workout.

Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby

Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied closely: atrazine, a herbicide used on corn. (Hayes, an expert on amphibians, is a critic of atrazine, which displays a disturbing effect on ...

A personal playlist from Shah Rukh Khan: 8 unforgettable TED Talks

Just in time for the second season of TED Talks India, Bollywood actor, producer and series host Shah Rukh Khan selects 8 talks that have inspired him and tells us why. Nearly two years ago, TED launched its first-ever TV series in India: TED Talks India: Nayi Soch (New Thinking). Filmed in Hindi, hosted by actor and producer Shah Rukh Khan, an...

Posted November 8, 2019

Jim Hagemann Snabe: Dreams and details for a decarbonized future

As chairman of the world's largest maritime shipping company, Jim Hagemann Snabe thinks a lot about how goods get where they need to go and the impact their journey has on the planet. Leading the effort to decarbonize shipping by 2050, he shares a plan to convert green electricity into green liquid fuel to power vessels in a process called "powe...

Juno Mac: The laws that sex workers really want

Everyone has an opinion about how to legislate sex work (whether to legalize it, ban it or even tax it) ... but what do workers themselves think would work best? Activist Juno Mac explains four legal models that are being used around the world and shows us the model that she believes will work best to keep sex workers safe and offer greater self...

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