Articles by TED Talks
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Foresight? Foreknowledge? Conspiracy Theorist? Visionary? Prophet?
Bill Gates | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
3 April 2015: The next outbreak? We’re not ready! In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training.
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Paul Watson: “If Our Oceans Die, We Die”
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
Cap. Paul Watson is founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He is guided by a singular truth: if the oceans die, we die! Humanity and civilization cannot survive on this planet with a dead ocean, and Captain Watson leads a movement that seeks to inspire passionate people to harness their courage, imagination and resolve to defend life and biodiversity in our oceans.
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An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action
John Perkins | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not “play the game” were assassinated or overthrown. He brings us up to date about the way the economic hit man system has spread from developing countries to the US, Europe, and the rest of the world and offers a strategy for turning this around.
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TED Talks, London Business School – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Radhanath Swami has been a Bhakti Yoga practitioner for more than 40 years, and is one of today’s most beloved and respected spiritual teachers. He is a guide, community builder, activist, and acclaimed author. Rooted in his study of ancient India’s mystic devotional, Radhanath’s message is simple: by cultivating a genuine practice of service, we can become instruments of compassion and agents of sustainable change in the world.
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Stop Eating Junk News (MUST WATCH VIDEO)
Heba Aly | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Nov 16, 2017 – Over the last decade, we’ve awoken to the fact that junk food hurts us. It’s time for a similar revolution in our news consumption. Much as a nutritionist gives us tools for healthy eating, Heba gives us tools to stop consuming and supporting Junk News [different from Fake News].
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The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance
Erica Chenoweth | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Between 1900-2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns. Erica talks about her research on the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discusses the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st century. In addition to explaining why nonviolent resistance has been so effective, she also shares some lessons learned about why it sometimes fails.
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Military Robots and the Future of War
P.W. Singer |TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Video from 2009 Even More Relevant Today – Must Watch
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This Country Isn’t Just Carbon Neutral — It’s Carbon Negative
Tshering Tobgay, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country’s mission to put happiness before economic growth and set a world standard for environmental preservation.
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Yanis Varoufakis – A Modest Proposal for Transforming Europe
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Professor Varoufakis proposes a decentralized system for Europe to transform it before being crashed by the systemic crisis. He studies different possibilities and explains why his proposal may be the best option.
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The Art of Symbolism in Peace Building
Kya Kim | TED Talks - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
[Former TMS Resident Journalist], peace activist and Peace Mask Project team member Kya Kim reminds us of the powerful role of symbolism in creating change towards lasting peace. Kya and her team strive to spark this lasting peace across Japan, China and Korea with the current Peace Mast East Asia Project.
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TED Talks - Glenn Greenwald,
27 Oct 2014
In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide.”
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Edward Snowden – TED Talks,
24 Mar 2014
Mar 18, 2014 – Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. “Your rights matter,” he say, “because you never know when you’re going to need them.”
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Gun or Gandhi
Martin Arnold - TED Talks,
30 Dec 2013
Nov 25, 2013 – TRANSCEND member Martin Arnold worked at the vocational school Essen-West as a protestant vocational pastor until 2010. From 2004 to 2009 he led a project funded by the German Foundation for Peace.
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Erica Chenoweth – TED Talks,
18 Nov 2013
Between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent ones. Erica talks about her research on the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discusses the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st.
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李世默:兩種制度的傳說 – A Tale of Two Political Systems
Eric X. Li – TED Talks,
11 Nov 2013
A venture capitalist and political scientist, Eric X Li argues against the universality of political claims to “paradise on earth” both from Communism and from West electoral politics. Both have proven wrong. China adapted, whereas the West insists in a largely failed socio-political arrangement.
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The Power of Addiction and the Addiction to Power
Gabor Maté, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Canadian physician Gabor Maté is a specialist in terminal illnesses, chemical dependence, and HIV positive patients. His theme at TEDxRio+20 was addiction — from drugs to power.
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The Myth of the Rich as Job Creators (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
TED Talks, Nick Hanauer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
In the talk, Hanauer, an early investor in Amazon.com and a multimillionaire, argued that income inequality was a detraction to a healthy economy and scoffed at the familiar rightwing talking point that the wealthy are the de-facto ‘job creators’ in the marketplace. “When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it’s a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around.”
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Bunker Roy: Learning From a Barefoot Movement
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2012
In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It’s called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.
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TED Talks – Pay Attention to Nonviolence (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Julia Bacha, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2011
One Story, One Film, Many Changes: Budrus – Originally from Brazil of Lebanese descent, Julia Bacha directed and produced Budrus (2009) and wrote and co-directed the feature documentary Encounter Point (2006) . Julia is Media Director at Just Vision (justvision.org) and an award-winning filmmaker who has worked on films exhibited at the Sundance, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Dubai International Film Festivals, and broadcast on the BBC, HBO, Sundance, CBC and Al Arabiya television channels.
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Three Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Ric Elias, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2011
Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time.
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Transforming the War on Terror (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Tatsushi Arai – TED Talks,
11 Jul 2011
Tatsushi Arai is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and an associate professor of conflict transformation at SIT Graduate Institute. His current areas of interest include research in Pakistan, dialogues aimed at transforming the underlying discourse of the war on terror in the West, as well as the growing networks of organized militancy in the Afghan-Pakistan context.
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Beware Online “Filter Bubbles”
Eli Pariser – TED Talks,
6 Jun 2011
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
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Organized Crime ‘Industry’ Gone Mainstream Worldwide
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2011
From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders. His book, McMafia, is an exhaustive look at an unseen industry that Glenny believes may account for 15% of the world’s GDP. Glenny suggests that conventional law enforcement might not be able to combat a problem whose roots lie in global instability.
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Addicted to Risk (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Naomi Klein – TED Talks,
7 Mar 2011
Days before this talk [18 Jan 2011], journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP’s risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more … and too often, we’re left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein’s question: What’s the backup plan?
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A Historic Moment in the Arab World
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
Wadah Khanfar – In TED’s first talk of 2011, Al Jazeera’s director-general shares his view on the uprisings sweeping the region.
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How People Become Monsters … Or Heroes
Philip Zimbardo – TED Talks,
14 Feb 2011
Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.
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Why We Think It’s OK to Cheat and Steal (sometimes)
Dan Ariely – Ted Talks,
17 Jan 2011
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it’s OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we’re predictably irrational — and can be influenced in ways we can’t grasp.
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The Happy Planet Index
Nick Marks, TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2011
In the words of Robert F. Kennedy, why does Gross National Product “measure everything […] except that which makes life worthwhile”? Happiness and health are what we really want, but we have the perception that those things can be measured on an economic scale. If happiness is what we want most, why aren’t we measuring it directly? Good news: statistician Nic Marks does just that. Watch as Marks explains the Happy Planet Index, his alternative to GDP, and what it tells us about which countries are really the happiest.
→ read full articleEducation: Build a Tower, Build a Team
Tom Wujec – TED Talks,
22 Nov 2010
Tom Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the “marshmallow problem” — a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?
→ read full articleBring on the Learning Revolution!
TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish..
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Sugata Mitra – TED Talks,
18 Oct 2010
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
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