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Monica Araya: How cities are detoxing transportation

People around the world are demanding clean air -- and cities are starting to respond, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. She takes us on a world tour of urban areas that are working to fully electrify their transportation systems over the next decade, shifting to emission-free motorcycles, cars, buses, ferries and beyond. See what a fu...
https://www.ted.com/talks/monica_araya_how_cities_are_detoxing_transportation

Boniface Mwangi | TED Speaker

Boniface Mwangi is an award-winning Kenyan photographer, artist and activist. He is a TED Fellow.
https://www.ted.com/speakers/boniface_mwangi

James Hodge: Esports, virtual Formula 1 and the new era of play

As the line between the physical and digital worlds blur, so does the line between real-world and virtual sports. Reframing our understanding of competition, data-driven technologist James Hodge explains how far esports (like virtual Formula 1 race car driving) have come in replicating the conditions of physical sports, making elite competition ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_hodge_esports_virtual_formula_1_and_the_new_era_of_play

Leslie Morgan Steiner | TED Speaker

Leslie Morgan Steiner is a writer and outspoken advocate for survivors of domestic violence -- which includes herself.
Writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/leslie_morgan_steiner

TED News in Brief: Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post, Alex Odundo plans a makerspace in Kenya

Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot of fascinating TED-related news items. Here, some highlights. Jeff Bezos, the co-founder of Amazon (watch his TED Talk), made waves on Monday when it was announced that he will buy The Washington Post for $250 million. “The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its ow...
Posted August 7, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/08/07/ted-news-in-brief-jeff-bezos-buys-the-washington-post-alex-odundo-plans-a-makerspace-in-kenya

Minda Dentler | TED Speaker

A record-setting triathlete, Minda Dentler is a polio survivor committed to inspiring people to move beyond their fear of failure and achieve their goals.
Athlete, activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/minda_dentler

Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI

What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more -- all by themselves. Take a tour of the Augmented Age with futurist Maurice Conti and preview a time when rob...
https://www.ted.com/talks/maurice_conti_the_incredible_inventions_of_intuitive_ai

Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality

Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both....
https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality

Dave Meslin | TED Speaker

Dave Meslin is a "professional rabble-rouser." Based in Toronto, he works to make local issues engaging and even fun to get involved in.
Artist and organizer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dave_meslin

Samy Nour Younes | TED Speaker

Samy Nour Younes is a trans actor and activist who highlights the diversity of the trans experience -- not just in their struggles, but also in their triumphs.
Actor, activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/samy_nour_younes

Nagin Cox | TED Speaker

Nagin Cox explores Mars as part of the team that operates NASA's rovers.
Spacecraft operations engineer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nagin_cox

Sheetal DeCaria | TED Speaker

Sheetal DeCaria MD is double-board certified in anesthesia and pain management by the American Board of Anesthesiology.
Pain physician and author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sheetal_decaria

Kate Stone | TED Speaker

At Novalia, Kate Stone and her team use ordinary printing presses to manufacture interactive electronics, which combine touch-sensitive ink technology and printed circuits into unique and cost-effective products.
Shepherd of electrons
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kate_stone

David R. Liu | TED Speaker

David R. Liu leads a research group that combines chemistry and evolutionary techniques to create revolutionary new medicines.
Chemical biologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_liu

Wanda Irving: How the US medical community fails Black mothers

In the US, Black women are nearly 300 percent more likely to die as a result of childbirth than white women. Sharing appalling statistics on maternal mortality as well as her own tragic story of loss, Wanda Irving explains how racism and bias in health care minimizes and dismisses Black women's pain -- and makes a personal plea for leaders in th...
https://www.ted.com/talks/wanda_irving_how_the_us_medical_community_fails_black_mothers

Susan Solomon | TED Speaker

Susan Solomon's work focused on supporting human stem cell research, aiming to cure major diseases and empower more personalized medicine.
Stem cell research advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/susan_solomon

David Lammy: Climate justice can't happen without racial justice

Why has there been so little mention of saving Black lives from the climate emergency? For too long, racial justice efforts have been distinguished from climate justice work, says David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, England. In a stirring talk about building a new movement to care for the planet, Lammy calls for inclusion and suppor...
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_lammy_climate_justice_can_t_happen_without_racial_justice

Miao Wang, Alok Sharma and Nigel Topping: The race to net-zero emissions by 2050 is on. Can we count you in?

In this rousing call to action, three participants of the Race To Zero -- a global campaign for cities, businesses, investors and individuals to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 -- discuss how we can move forward with speed and urgency to create a more fair, healthy and sustainable world. Watch as Miao Wang, United Nations Young Champio...
https://www.ted.com/talks/miao_wang_alok_sharma_and_nigel_topping_the_race_to_net_zero_emissions_by_2050_is_on_can_we_count_you_in

Zainab Salbi | TED Speaker

Iraqi-born Zainab Salbi founded and runs Women for Women International, and has dedicated her life to helping women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives and communities.
Activist and social entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/zainab_salbi

Bryce Dallas Howard | TED Speaker

Bryce Dallas Howard is an actor, director, writer and producer with a deep love of the craft of storytelling.
Multi-hyphenate creator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/bryce_dallas_howard

5 fascinating cars of the future

It’s 2012. And many of us no doubt imagined that flying cars would be all the rage by now. While that hasn’t happened yet, some major driving innovations are on their way down the pipeline. In a new TEDTalk, Chris Gerdes of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (awesomely abbreviated as CARS) explains that he and his team are busy ...
Posted July 11, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/5-fascinating-cars-of-the-future

4 big questions about the race to Mars

Should we be putting humans on Mars? A panel of space experts brings up the big questions we need to ask before we blast off. Mars! It’s a planet we humans have been eyeing with intent since we first looked upward. Someday, the Red Planet might become a place to house Earth's expanding population ... it could be a lucrative place to mine natura...
Posted April 12, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/4-big-questions-about-the-race-to-mars

Kwame Owusu-Kesse: 5 needs that any COVID-19 response should meet

Crisis interventions often focus on a single aspect of a big, complicated problem, failing to address the broader social and economic context. Kwame Owusu-Kesse describes how the Harlem Children's Zone is taking a more holistic approach to the pandemic, weaving together a network of services to help communities recover and rebuild. Learn more ab...
https://www.ted.com/talks/kwame_owusu_kesse_5_needs_that_any_covid_19_response_should_meet

Dorothy Roberts | TED Speaker

Global scholar, University of Pennsylvania civil rights sociologist and law professor Dorothy Roberts exposes the myths of race-­based medicine.
Professor, author and social justice advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dorothy_roberts

Elizabeth Howell: How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy

Shocking, but true: the United States has the highest rate of deaths for new mothers of any developed country -- and 60 percent of them are preventable. With clarity and urgency, physician Elizabeth Howell explains the causes of maternal mortality and shares ways for hospitals and doctors to make pregnancy safer for women before, during and afte...
https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_howell_how_we_can_improve_maternal_healthcare_before_during_and_after_pregnancy

Eric Dyer | TED Speaker

Eric Dyer is an artist and educator who brings animation into the physical world with his sequential images, sculptures and installations.
Artist, educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/eric_dyer

Rich Benjamin: My road trip through the whitest towns in America

As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in. In this funny, honest, human talk, he shares what he learned as a black man in Whitopia.
https://www.ted.com/talks/rich_benjamin_my_road_trip_through_the_whitest_towns_in_america

David R. Williams: How racism makes us sick

Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like income and education to reveal how factors like implicit bias, residential segregation and negative stereotypes create and sustain inequality. In this eye-opening talk, W...
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_r_williams_how_racism_makes_us_sick

Margaret Bourdeaux | TED Speaker

Margaret Bourdeaux investigates the best ways to protect, recover and reconstruct health systems and institutions disrupted by war or disaster.
Physician, global health policy analyst
https://www.ted.com/speakers/margaret_bourdeaux

Carolyn Jones | TED Speaker

Carolyn Jones creates projects that point our attention towards issues of global concern.
Photographic ethnographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/carolyn_jones
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