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TEDxAzusaPacificUniversity: INSPIRING IDEAS AND MEANING - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxAzusaPacificUniversity is an independently organized TED event that brings together the smartest thinkers, best ideas, and greatest teachers based on the theme Inspiring Ideas and Meaning. A half-dayTEDxAzusaPacificUniversity affords APU students, faculty and staff the opportunity to deepen community engagement with values, character, ethics...
Event details: Azusa, California, United States · April 7, 2015
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/14392

Sarah Corbett | TED Speaker

Sarah Corbett does activism in a quiet, humble and intriguing way using handicrafts.
Craftivist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_corbett

Angelo Vermeulen | TED Speaker

Angelo Vermeulen wears many hats, including one as a crew commander for NASA, another as an artist and community organizer.
Space researcher, biologist, artist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/angelo_vermeulen

His Holiness Pope Francis: Why the only future worth building includes everyone

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 don't, the spiritual leader provides illuminating commentary on the world as we c...
https://www.ted.com/talks/his_holiness_pope_francis_why_the_only_future_worth_building_includes_everyone

TEDxRajarambapuIT - an independently organized event

About this event: Owing to the warmth of gratification, we often forget to take a glance at the soft strings of questions, the strings which have not been pulled yet, but if, then in the pursuit of those unanswered questions a beautiful thought evolves, a thought no matter how little or large, a thought which will touch the ethics of people.Making a powerful perc...
Event details: Uran Islampur, Maharashtra, India · September 24, 2017
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/23216

Barton Seaver | TED Speaker

Barton Seaver is an advocate of sustainable seafood and a chef in Washington DC. His work tells the story of our common resources through the communion we all share – dinner.
Chef
https://www.ted.com/speakers/barton_seaver

Nita Farahany | TED Speaker

Nita A. Farahany is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of biosciences and emerging technologies, particularly those related to neuroscience and behavioral genetics.
Legal scholar, ethicist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nita_farahany

TEDxYouth@Payyambalam - an independently organized event

About this event: We're at the intersection of it all, the T-junction of faith and scepticism, the convergence of local ideas and substantial realities, and the seams of dreams untold and unheard, all to watch the metamorphosis of a town, a community and it's people. At TEDxYouth@Payyambalam, we hope to unearth the stories behind this shift of paradigm, to educ...
Event details: Burnacherry Kannur, Kerala, India · July 12, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/32025

TEDxInjibara: Morality and Ethics - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxInjibara is open for all people living in Injibara. The event is held in English and is a great opportunity to speak English with Ethiopians as well as foreigners! Each month we have a new theme that is relevant to the lives we live.
Event details: Injibara, Āmara, Ethiopia · July 19, 2014
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/12639

Valarie Kaur | TED Speaker

Valarie Kaur is a social justice activist, lawyer, filmmaker, innovator, mother and Sikh American thought leader who founded the Revolutionary Love Project -- a movement that envisions a world where love is a public ethic.
Activist, lawyer, filmmaker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/valarie_kaur

TEDxUofTSalon - an independently organized event

About this event: Synthesis: How innovation becomes reality, from the lab bench to the store shelf. It can be easy to take for granted the myriad of products that improve our lives dramatically. However, the journey from a laboratory experiment to a real-world solution is often long and complicated. Along the path, businesses and scientists need to grapple with ...
Event details: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada · January 29, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/32133

Video: How I used TED Conversations to engage my classroom

In this short talk from TEDxCooperUnion, bioengineer (and TED Fellow) Nina Tandon talks about her experiment in using TED Conversations as a teaching tool in a tissue engineering class -- inspiring students to ask bigger questions online, and engage with a broad community to create wide-ranging discussions about biology, ethics, perception an...
Posted June 19, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/06/19/video-how-i-used-ted-conversations-to-engage-my-classroom

Tania Simoncelli | TED Speaker

Tania Simoncelli advises the White House on science and technology policy.
Policy expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tania_simoncelli

TEDxStMarysUniversityTwickenham: TEDxStMarysUniversityTwickenham 20210514 - an independently organized event

About this event: St Mary's University is delighted to announce TEDxStMarysUniversity - an afternoon and evening of enlightening and exciting 18-minute talks. As well as questions around whether the traditional university is dead, we'll be discussing the ethics of vaccine passports, climate change and whether psychoanalysis can teach us about online misogyny. I...
Event details: London, London, City of, United Kingdom · May 20, 2021
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/39726

Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives

Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop -- but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution to the problem: the Medicines Patent Pool.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_t_hoen_pool_medical_patents_save_lives

TEDxULB - an independently organized event

About this event: Each year we are gathering our university community around speakers and generating new connections and ideas. This year, TEDxULB is exploring the possibility of human beings. We will question what it means to be human and what it will mean in the future. From medicine to technology, through ethics and art, you will meet amazing speakers and mind...
Event details: Ixelles, Bruxelles-Capitale, Région de (fr), Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (nl), Belgium · May 4, 2016
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/18050

20+ resources for better giving and living a more altruistic life

Every day, most of us do something morally indefensible -- we go about our lives without sending help to the 6.9 million children under the age of 5 who will die this year from poverty-related disease. In today’s talk, philosopher Peter Singer makes the case that ignoring these kids is as inhumane as ignoring a child who's been hit by a car on...
Posted May 20, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/05/20/20-resources-for-better-giving-and-living-a-more-altruistic-life

TEDxYouth@EnglishCollege - an independently organized event

About this event: "Children of today are the leaders of tomorrow" - Nelson Mandela The future is an inevitability which we all face. Its uncertainty is daunting to many, but as we move forward we must face these issues head-first with optimism and acceptance. With this, TEDxYouth@EnglishCollege 2017 presents 12 talented speakers, all tackling the concept of "Str...
Event details: Dubai, Dubayy, United Arab Emirates · April 16, 2017
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/22394

TEDxEmory - an independently organized event

About this event: Featured speakers include: Leah Ward Sears - Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia Thad Starner - Founder of contextual computing group, Technical Lead/Manager of Google’s Project Glass Paul Wolpe - Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics and Director of Center for Ethics at Emory Camara Jones - Senior Fellow at ...
Event details: Atlanta, Georgia, United States · April 12, 2014
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/12117

Jennifer Kahn: Gene editing can now change an entire species -- forever

CRISPR gene drives allow scientists to change sequences of DNA and guarantee that the resulting edited genetic trait is inherited by future generations, opening up the possibility of altering entire species forever. More than anything, the technology has led to questions: How will this new power affect humanity? What are we going to use it to ch...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_kahn_gene_editing_can_now_change_an_entire_species_forever

Do-it-yourself biotech: Ellen Jorgensen at TEDGlobal 2012

"It's a great time to be a molecular biologist," says Ellen Jorgensen, a biologist who founded Genspace, a do-it-yourself genetics lab. By end of the year, for less than €1,000 you'll be able to sequence a human genome in less than a day. But, she asks: "Who gets to do it?" We know and trust the professionals -- are they the only ones all...
Posted June 26, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/06/26/do-it-yourself-biotech-ellen-jorgensen-at-tedglobal-2012

"As a species, we have a moral obligation to enhance ourselves"

Should parents be able to select their children’s talents and personalities? Whatever your opinion, it is precisely the kind of question that Julian Savulescu wants you to take seriously. A professor of practical ethics at the University of Oxford, Savulescu thinks deeply about the ethics of the biological enhancement of the human race. In hi...
Posted February 19, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/the-ethics-of-genetically-enhanced-monkey-slaves

TEDxKilimani: Morality, ethics & human behaviour - an independently organized event

About this event: This event is a forum to spark creative engagement between people who want to challenge their fundamental beliefs and explore new ways of thinking. A gathering for curious minds.
Event details: Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya · March 3, 2011
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2322

The mind of a murderer, saving the earth’s soil and how we might be shaping human evolution

The stars of your favorite TED Talks have been busy over the past week. Below, a few newsy highlights. Inside the mind of a murderer. What makes murderers do what they do? A BBC piece revealed that some murderers have reduced activity in their prefrontal cortex, which controls emotional impulses, and over-activity in their amygdala, which gen...
Posted March 27, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/03/27/the-mind-of-a-murderer-saving-the-earths-soil-and-how-we-might-be-shaping-human-evolution

TEDxCarmelHighSchool - an independently organized event

About this event: Carmel High School students hosted the third annual TEDxCarmelHighSchool on October 10, 2015 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Eleven Fifty Academy. Inspired by the idea of “where you least expect it,” speakers shared ideas about music, ethics, failure, economics, social change, and more. Speakers included innovators from the Indianapolis area ...
Event details: Carmel, Indiana, United States · October 10, 2015
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/16606

New writing from Casey Gerald, Stephen Hawking's final book and more TED news

[embed]https://www.ted.com/talks/casey_gerald_the_gospel_of_doubt[/embed] The TED community is brimming with new books and projects. Below, a selection of highlights. A powerful story of an American odyssey. Writer and business leader Casey Gerald has published a new memoir on his journey through American life. Titled There Will Be No Mira...
Posted October 29, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/10/29/new-writing-from-casey-gerald-stephen-hawkings-final-book-and-more-ted-news

2015 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners include two TED Fellows: Patrick Awuah and LaToya Ruby Frazier

The MacArthur Foundation revealed its list of 2015 Fellows this morning. Twenty-four people received the “genius grant,” a $625,000 no-strings-attached stipend -- and two of them are TED Fellows: Patrick Awuah and LaToya Ruby Frazier. Patrick Awuah founded Ashesi University, a college in his home country of Ghana dedicated to educating Af...
Posted September 29, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/09/29/2015-macarthur-genius-grant-winners-include-two-ted-fellows-patrick-awuah-and-latoya-ruby-frasier

TEDxĐaKao - an independently organized event

About this event: At TEDxĐaKao: “Delayed Gratification”, speakers are coming from diverse backgrounds will share their subtle and meaningful idea of the process of resisting the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later reward. You will discover the value towards building your life value, observe and discover a diverse range of the meaning of r...
Event details: Ho Chi Minh city, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · August 30, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/35492

TEDxVienna: TEDxVienna 20211023 - an independently organized event

About this event: UNTOLD is a conference about ideas that leave us speechless. Some ideas tell the same tale, others tell a different story. A few might just help us tell things apart. But truth be told, only time will tell which ones do. This year's event will tell you a thing or two about UNTOLD ideas that need to be shared. 2 half-day chapters of peeking thr...
Event details: Vienna, Wien, Austria · October 22, 2021
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/37755

TEDxGWHSchool - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxGWHSchool was a TEDxYouth event hosted in the Greenwood High International School campus on March 12th, 2016 for 100 high schoolers attending schools across Bengaluru city. Our theme, ‘Transcending Synapses’ is based on the idea that there's always a discord surrounding another people’s opinion, their ideas, their experiences and their cult...
Event details: Bangalore, Karnataka, India · March 11, 2016
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/17698
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