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Susan Pinker: The secret to living longer may be your social life

The Italian island of Sardinia has more than six times as many centenarians as the mainland and ten times as many as North America. Why? According to psychologist Susan Pinker, it's not a sunny disposition or a low-fat, gluten-free diet that keeps the islanders healthy -- it's their emphasis on close personal relationships and face-to-face inter...
https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_pinker_the_secret_to_living_longer_may_be_your_social_life

Monika Bulaj | TED Speaker

Monika Bulaj’s stunning, painting-like photographs blur religious and cultural divisions, exploding stereotypes. She is a TED Fellow.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/monika_bulaj

Playlist: The most popular talks of 2019 (19 talks)

Which TED Talks were watched most in 2019? These talks reflect a year defined by fighting for what's right, believing in the good despite all the bad, supporting others and yourself -- and hoping for the best in the decade to come.
Curated by TED · 19 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/the_most_popular_talks_of_2019

Samantha Nutt | TED Speaker

Samantha Nutt envisions a world where no child knows war.
Doctor, writer and humanitarian
https://www.ted.com/speakers/samantha_nutt

TEDxJuba: New Nation, New Ideas - an independently organized event

About this event: The TEDx event, entitled “New Nation, New Ideas”, will take place for the first time in South Sudan. TEDxJuba will mark the one year anniversary of the country’s independence (9 July 2012) by showcasing a growing community of innovators and encouraging direct south-south collaboration and knowledge sharing. TEDxJuba will contribute to the growth...
Event details: Juba, South Sudan · July 13, 2012
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/6219

TEDxKhartoumSalon - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxKhartoumSalon V.2 is around Creating communities & Networking through TEDx . 15 passionate TEDxers were gathered at Mujjadidon training center and enjoyed the 2 hours together. We'd a discussion around the TEDx Summit, future of TEDx in Sudan and passing the torch to another organizers.
Event details: Khartoum, Sudan · October 13, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/10669

Playlist: Photojournalism -- close up and personal (16 talks)

These photographers capture beautiful and sometimes sobering images, using their art to help fight for social justice.
Curated by TED · 16 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/close_up_and_personal

Playlist: Way, way out there (17 talks)

Travel across the universe (or is it universes?) to see stunning images of Saturn's rings, hear haunting sounds from distant black holes and catch an infectious sense of wonder about galaxies far, far away.
Curated by TED · 17 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/way_way_out_there

At TEDWomen, a visit with the Alliance for Artisans

On a gorgeous San Francisco night, the TEDWomen community gathered to kick off our 2016 conference, “It’s About Time,” with an evening of global food, music and connection around ideas. On the terrace of the City View at Metreon, overlooking Yerba Buena Gardens, a dozen artisan groups have gathered from around the world to show off gorgeous wa...
Posted October 26, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/10/26/at-tedwomen-a-visit-with-the-alliance-for-artisans

Playlist: When you need to take an intellectual snack break (21 talks)

A selection of fascinating TED Talks for when you need to feed your intellectual curiosity (in 10 minutes or less).
Curated by TED · 21 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/when_you_need_to_take_an_intellectual_snack_break

Andrew Mwenda | TED Speaker

Journalist Andrew Mwenda has spent his career fighting for free speech and economic empowerment throughout Africa. He argues that aid makes objects of the poor -- they become passive recipients of charity rather than active participants in their own economic betterment.
Journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/andrew_mwenda

How do we stop the spread of Ebola? A Q&A at TEDGlobal 2014

Ten years ago, epidemiologist Chikwe Ihekweazu helped fight an outbreak in South Sudan. This TED Fellow now runs the health consultancy EpiAFRIC, writes about public health issues in his native Nigeria, and is soon to start a four-week rotation on the ground fighting the Ebola epidemic. So as the outbreak continues, he sat down for a Q&A...
Posted October 10, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/10/10/chikwe-ihekweazu-on-the-ebola-epidemic

TED Fellow Naomi Natale lays One Million Bones on the National Mall

This weekend, thousands gathered in Washington, DC, to help lay one million handmade representations of human bones -- 1,018,260 bones, to be exact -- on the National Mall. This breathtaking installation created a haunting river of bones leading to the US Capitol, and represents the culmination of a nearly five-year social activism project imagi...
Posted June 9, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/09/ted-fellow-naomi-natale-lays-one-millon-bones-on-the-national-mall

Rahwa Ghirmatzion | TED Speaker

Rahwa Ghirmatzion is executive director of People United for Sustainable Housing, a membership-based community organization committed to social and climate justice.
Social and climate justice advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rahwa_ghirmatzion

Susan M. Reverby: Ugly History: The US syphilis experiment

Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service launched an experiment to investigate, recruiting 600 Black men to take part. But the study was centered on a lie: the men wouldn't actually receive treatmen...
https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_m_reverby_ugly_history_the_us_syphilis_experiment

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos

Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.
https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_the_gentle_genius_of_bonobos

TEDxKhartoum: Who We Are - an independently organized event

About this event: Pictures of the event can be found on Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/TEDxKhartoum An article on TEDxKhartoum in the Sudan Vision newspaper (English). http://www.sudanvisiondaily.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=73769 TEDx Africa Organizers Interview: Anwar Dafa-Alla of TEDxKhartoum http://tedx.tumblr.com/post/58...
Event details: Khartoum, Sudan · April 30, 2011
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1576

Checking in with Susan David

Fear, boredom, grief, confusion—we're all feeling ... a lot right now. How do we cope with our heightened emotions during this global pandemic? Susan David—a psychologist at Harvard Medical School—is here to offer us strategies. This show is an urgent response to an urgent moment—a support system, toolkit, and understanding voice during a time o...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/checking-in

Philippa Neave | TED Speaker

Philippa Neave is senior advisor on the UN's Lexicon of Electoral Terminology.
Electoral consultant
https://www.ted.com/speakers/philippa_neave

Susan Colantuono | TED Speaker

Susan Colantuono is the CEO and founder of Leading Women.
Leadership expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/susan_colantuono

Luma Mufleh | TED Speaker

Luma Mufleh does something revolutionary: she coaches soccer. A Jordanian immigrant and Muslim of Syrian descent, Mufleh is determined to empower refugee children everywhere.
Refugee activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/luma_mufleh

Susan Graham | TED Speaker

Susan Graham works to restore biodiversity to Earth's natural ecosystems.
Environmentalist, entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/susan_graham

Meet the TED Fellows

The 500+ TED Fellows are making headlines in over 100 countries for their incredible work in all fields. This year's TED Fellows cohort represents 14 countries across five continents -- including, for the first time, Angola, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. Each TED Fellow was selected for their remarkable achievements, the potential impact of their w...
https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-fellows-program/meet-the-ted-fellows

One Million Bones on the National Mall, all countable in this gigapixel image

In the image above, one million handmade bones -- made by schoolchildren and artists around the world -- have been methodically laid across the National Mall in Washington, DC, from the US Capitol building all the way to the Washington Monument. The culmination of a five-year project from TED Fellow Naomi Natale (read our interview with her abou...
Posted June 27, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/27/one-million-bones-on-the-national-mall-all-countable-in-this-gigapixel-image

Language heroes: Meet the TED Translators we invited to TEDGlobal 2017

At TED, speakers aren't the only celebrities; some of the biggest heroes sit in the audience. Case in point: Our volunteer TED Translators, who donate their free time to translate TED Talks into their local languages, making the talks accessible to millions of people every day. Ahead of TEDGlobal 2017 in Tanzania, we invited these translator...
Posted August 27, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/08/27/language-heroes-meet-the-ted-translators-we-invited-to-tedglobal-2017

Susan Blackmore | TED Speaker

Susan Blackmore studies memes -- those self-replicating "life forms" that spread themselves via human consciousness. We're now headed, she believes, toward a new form of meme, spread by the technology we've created.
Memeticist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/susan_blackmore

Interesting: The languages Google Translate doesn't translate yet

From the Atlantic, this fascinating essay on Google Translate at an interesting point in its growth: Last week Google Translate announced that it now has more than 200 million monthly users. As Alexis Madrigal noted, this means that Google is now translating as much in a day as all professional human translators combined complete in a year --...
Posted May 6, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/05/06/interesting-the-languages-google-translate-doesnt-translate-yet

TEDxGeziraUniversity - an independently organized event

About this event: So many Global societies have so much problems related self disappointment, and they have much soles of negative thinking, and the Sudanese community is one of them, in spite of that negative reality so many people fight this negativity , and became the people of excellence , in this event we highlight those people, to become as we hope the ligh...
Event details: Wad Madani, Al Jazīrah, Sudan · January 20, 2016
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/16644

Susan David | TED Speaker

Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan David studies emotional agility: the psychology of how we can use emotion to bring forward our best selves in all aspects of how we love, live, parent and lead.
Psychologist, researcher, author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/susan_david

TEDxAlMorada - an independently organized event

About this event:
Event details: khartoum, Sudan · May 1, 2015
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/15290
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