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refugees want empowerment not handouts robert hakiza
Bookmarked 419 weeks ago the prevailing image of where refugees live is of temporary camps in isolated areas -- but in reality nearly 60 percent of them worldwide end up in urban areas ted fellow robert hakiza takes us inside the lives of urban refugees -- and shows us how organizations like the one that he started can provide them with the skills they need to ultimately become self-sufficient |
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ted turner: rupert murdoch is 039going to have to step down039 video
Bookmarked 754 weeks ago ted turner took some shots at his longtime rival rupert murdoch during an interview with bloomberg on tuesday turner spoke about the phone hacking scandal that is still swirling around murdoch |
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how i039m bringing queer pride to my rural village katlego kolanyane-kesupile
Bookmarked 403 weeks ago in a poetic personal talk ted fellow katlego kolanyane-kesupile examines the connection between her modern queer lifestyle and her childhood upbringing in a rural village in botswana |
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medical tech designed to meet africa039s needs soyapi mumba
Bookmarked 425 weeks ago in sub-saharan africa power outages low technology penetration slow internet and understaffed hospitals plague health care systems to make progress on these problems in malwai ted fellow soyapi mumba and his team created a new system from scratch -- from the software that powers their electronic health records to the infrastructure used to support it in this quick hopeful talk mumba shares how his jack-of-all-trades mindset can help reshape health care in low-resource environments |
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lessons from a solar storm chaser miho janvier
Bookmarked 429 weeks ago space physicist miho janvier studies solar storms: giant clouds of particles that escape from the sun and can disrupt life on earth while also producing amazing auroras how do you study the atmosphere on the sun which burns at temperatures of up to around 10 million degrees kelvin with math join the ted fellow as she shares her work trying to better understand how the sun affects us here on earth |
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the new generation of computers is programming itself sebastian thrun and chris anderson
Bookmarked 431 weeks ago educator and entrepreneur sebastian thrun wants us to use ai to free humanity of repetitive work and unleash our creativity in an inspiring informative conversation with ted curator chris anderson thrun discusses the progress of deep learning why we shouldn039t fear runaway ai and how society will be better off if dull tedious work is done with the help of machines |
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the new generation of computers is programming itself sebastian thrun and chris anderson
Bookmarked 430 weeks ago educator and entrepreneur sebastian thrun wants us to use ai to free humanity of repetitive work and unleash our creativity in an inspiring informative conversation with ted curator chris anderson thrun discusses the progress of deep learning why we shouldn039t fear runaway ai and how society will be better off if dull tedious work is done with the help of machines |
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why the only future worth building includes everyone his holiness pope francis
Bookmarked 462 weeks ago a single individual is enough for hope to exist and that individual can be you says his holiness pope francis in this searing ted talk delivered directly from vatican city in a hopeful message to people of all faiths to those who have power as well as those who don039t the spiritual leader provides illuminating commentary on the world as we currently find it and calls for equality solidarity and tenderness to prevail |
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no one should die because they live too far from a doctor raj panjabi
Bookmarked 457 weeks ago illness is universal -- but access to care is not physician raj panjabi has a bold vision to bring health care to everyone everywhere with the 2017 ted prize panjabi is building the community health academy a global platform that aims to modernize how community health workers learn vital skills creating jobs along the way |
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ted cruz refuses to endorse trump at rnc
Bookmarked 502 weeks ago ted cruz refused to endorse the gop nominee donald trump at the rnc and even though he got booed he sounded like he had no regrets the day after |
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my quest for the worst secret menu item - youtube
Bookmarked 158 weeks ago in this video follow my quest to find the worst secret menu item that may or may not exist the dark council will never stop our journey all my socials: ht |
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a breakthrough device that combines mind and machine arnav kapur
Bookmarked 355 weeks ago try talking to yourself without opening your mouth by simply saying words internally what if you could search the internet like that -- and get an answer back in the first live public demo of his new technology ted fellow arnav kapur introduces alterego: a wearable ai device with the potential to let you silently talk to and get information from a computer system like a voice inside your head learn more about how the device works and the far-reaching implications of this new kind of human-computer interaction |
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the key to a better malaria vaccine faith osier
Bookmarked 383 weeks ago the malaria vaccine was invented more than a century ago -- yet each year hundreds of thousands of people still die from the disease how can we improve this vital vaccine in this informative talk immunologist and ted fellow faith osier shows how she039s combining cutting-edge technology with century-old insights in the hopes of creating a new vaccine that eradicates malaria once and for all |
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how fungi recognize and infect plants mennat el ghalid
Bookmarked 414 weeks ago each year the world loses enough food to feed half a billion people to fungi the most destructive pathogens of plants mycologist and ted fellow mennat el ghalid explains how a breakthrough in our understanding of the molecular signals fungi use to attack plants could disrupt the interaction -- and save our crops |
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a radical plan to end plastic waste andrew forrest
Bookmarked 334 weeks ago plastic is an incredible substance for the economy -- and the worst substance possible for the environment says entrepreneur andrew forrest in a conversation meant to spark debate forrest and head of ted chris anderson discuss an ambitious plan to get the world039s biggest companies to fund an environmental revolution -- and transition industry towards getting all of its plastic from recycled materials not from fossil fuels |