Monthly Archives: May 2020

Genius Is Not about Excelling at Something—It’s about Doing Things Differently Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- We want our surgeons to be excellent. We want our classical music performers to be excellent. But do we really want excellence everywhere? This is the provocative […]

Nicole Eisenberg has seen first hand the challenges women face trying to enter male dominated professions. Unlike the broader healthcare environment, surgical specialties often remain closed off and women trying to enter them are often subject to unique pressures, harassment, and discrimination. In sharing her experiences, Nicole encourages women to push back against challenging institutional policies […]

La cei 8 ani ai săi, Robert ne inspiră și ne amintește că joaca înseamnă învățare și că orice loc e bun pentru învățare. Și-a găsit vocea înăuntrul propriului sistem și a inimii sale, unde ar trebui să o căutăm și noi. Prin acest discurs, ne încurajează să ne depășim limitele pentru a face lumea […]

Latika Nath is a conservational ecologist and a wildlife photographer. She was awarded the title of ‘The Tiger Princess’ by National Geographic in 2001 which featured her work. She is the first woman biologist in India with a doctorate on tigers. She has spent over twenty-five years working for the conservation of cats. She is […]

Klemens Rahardja is an entrepreneur, having founded numerous platforms such as The Entrepreneurs Society, HelloGram and BPI Groups. The Entrepreneurs Society caters for the growing market of aspiring young entrepreneurs in our country, by providing a platform for them to gather and professional guidance to prosper. The title of his talk is “The 3 Essences […]

The talk is about Aarohi’s round the world mission on an ultra light aircraft, describing her journey, hardship and how she achieved her dream. At age 23, she became the first woman in the world to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a LSA. Aarohi launched the world’s first all-woman team to circumnavigate the Earth […]

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Privacy isn’t dead, but face surveillance technology might kill it, says civil rights advocate Kade Crockford. In an eye-opening talk, Kade outlines the startling reasons why this invasive technology — powered by often-flawed facial recognition databases that track […]

NOTE FROM TED: TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdf When thinking of artificial exoskeletons, images of bulky complicated machines often come to mind. But Sofie Woge shows us a minimalistic, wearable and commercially viable version of this kind of technology. Sofie […]

Remy Buser holds a MSc in Chemistry form EPFL and a PhD in Biochemistry from ETH Zurich. He worked as a scientific advisor for the Swiss Parliament, where he advised Member of the Parliament on environmental bills. Combining politics and science, he co-founded Bloom Biorenewables Ltd, a company developing a unique alternative to petroleum from […]

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Health care workers are under more stress than ever before. How can they protect their mental health while handling new and complex pressures? TED Fellow Laurel Braitman shows how writing and sharing personal stories helps physicians, nurses, medical […]

What happens with a human in detention, removed of their freedom and former identity? How is it that people who were among ‘us’ suddenly become ‘them’, as if they are something alien? And how do these terms prevent us from critically examining the issue of detention? Ilvija Pūce explores the dehumanization that occurs in closed […]

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. How can we return to work without spurring a second surge of coronavirus infection? Biologist Uri Alon shares a thought-provoking strategy: four days at work followed by 10 days of lockdown, a cycle that would exploit a weakness […]

Imogen Malpas is the winner of TEDxOxford 2020’s student speaker competition and currently studying at the University of Oxford. In her talk she will explore time-space synaesthesia, where people can see time as a shape, and will discuss how we can all access this mysterious, almost sci-fi world where people can taste music, smell words […]

Introducing TED’s newest podcast: Pindrop, hosted by Saleem Reshamwala. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: https://link.chtbl.com/Pindrop Let’s say you go into labor in the back of a taxi. The traffic is so bad you don’t know if you’ll make it to the hospital on time. You make the obvious call to the local radio station […]

Jeremy Park in love with dance at an extremely young age, shows us the secrets dance can teach us off of the dance floor. Between his fluid and fun motions, we get a deeper look into how dance can change your life. Hailing from Raleigh, Jeremy is studying computer science with a minor in Spanish. […]

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. By some estimates, work-related stress drains the US economy of nearly 300 billion dollars a year — and it can hurt your productivity and personal health too, says wellness advocate Rob Cooke. He shares some strategies to help […]