Professor Sajay Samuel's proposal to reduce the burden of student loans is part of his larger preoccupation with thinking beyond the conventional categories of economics and ecology.

Have you wondered why politicians aren't what they used to be, why governments seem unable to solve real problems? Economist Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece, says that it's because you can be in politics today but not be in power -- because real power now belongs to those who control the economy. He believes that the ...

Cindy Gallop has turned her illustrious advertising career into a lifelong pursuit of changing the world, her way -- one daring project after another.

TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous studies eye health -- and builds accessible new tools to bring eye care to more people.

Tea Uglow leads part of Google's Creative Lab specializing in work with cultural organizations, artists, writers and producers on experiments using digital technology at the boundaries of traditional cultural practice.

Niels van Namen leads the global CEVA Healthcare team as the Executive Vice President for Healthcare in BD.

Linda Hill studies collective genius -- the way great companies, and great leaders, empower creativity from many.

Chance Coughenour is recreating heritage and culture that's been lost throughout the world.

As Asian economies and governments continue to gain power, the West needs to find ways to adapt to the new global order, says author and diplomat Kishore Mahbubani. In an insightful look at international politics, Mahbubani shares a three-part strategy that Western governments can use to recover power and improve relations with the rest of the w...

Jason Yang is recognized for his versatility on multiple instruments as well as his abilities in composing and producing.

Marco Alverà is an Italian/American businessman and CEO of Snam, Europe’s largest natural gas utility.

In May 1940, with the German army ready to occupy Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was faced with a difficult choice: stand on the sidelines or join the Allied forces fighting the Nazis. After witnessing the devastation across Europe, she travelled to England to learn the art of espionage. Shrabani Basu details how a pacifist turned spy helped build the ...

Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater installations offer views of another world, where the artistic efforts of man meet the vivifying power of nature.

Kathy Nicholson Hull founded the first freestanding pediatric palliative care center in the US.

Driven by a belief in fairness, Simone George is a human rights lawyer and activist.

As the child of an Afghan mother and Pakistani father raised in Norway, Deeyah Khan knows what it's like to be a young person stuck between your community and your country. In this powerful, emotional talk, the filmmaker unearths the rejection and isolation felt by many Muslim kids growing up in the West -- and the deadly consequences of not emb...

Photographer Tomm Christiansen has spent months documenting everyday life for inhabitants of "The Jungle" refugee camp in Calais. By September 2015, some 5,000 people were living in a sprawling encampment just outside the French port city of Calais. The camp is in essence a dead-end for migrants who have traversed continental Europe, hoping to ...

Alex Edmans uses rigorous academic research to influence real-life business practices -- in particular, how companies can pursue purpose as well as profit.

As the leader of the Imaging Team on the Cassini mission to Saturn, Carolyn Porco interprets and shares the pictures coming back from this fascinating planet, its rings and its moons.

About this event: Modelo de conferências aclamado no mundo todo, TEDx, ganha sua segunda edição em Passo Fundo A conhecida série de conferências surgida nos EUA há quase três décadas, TED (em português: Tecnologia, Entretenimento, Design), ganhará seu segundo evento TEDx em Passo Fundo. Tendo como base o sucesso de sua última edição, realizada em 2015, a organi...

A million refugees arrived in Europe this year, says Alexander Betts, and "our response, frankly, has been pathetic." Betts studies forced migration, the impossible choice for families between the camps, urban poverty and dangerous illegal journeys to safety. In this insightful talk, he offers four ways to change the way we treat refugees, so th...

Ivan Coyote believes that a good story can help inspire us to invent a better future.

As a pioneer in critical race theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw helped open the discussion of the double bind faced by victims of simultaneous racial and gender prejudice.

Dessa is an internationally touring rapper, singer and writer who built a career by defying genre conventions and audience expectations.

We are embarrassingly unaware of how divided our societies are, and Brexit grew out of a deep, unexamined divide between those that fear globalization and those that embrace it, says social scientist Alexander Betts. How do we now address that fear as well as growing disillusionment with the political establishment, while refusing to give in to ...

Americanization and globalization have basically been the same thing for the last several generations. But the US's view of the world -- and the world's view of the US -- is changing. In a fast-paced tour of the current state of international politics, Ian Bremmer discusses the challenges of a world where no single country or alliance can meet t...

Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it.

About this event: Data: 26 de Novembro Horário: 13h00 - 22h00 Endereço: MASP Av Paulista, 1578 Descrição do evento TEDxSãoPaulo traz ao palco ideias sobre empreendedorismo, intrapreendedorismo, eupreendedorismo. TEDxSãoPaulo é um evento que depende da co-criação e da participação de muitas pessoas e organizações para existir! Como você pode contribuir? ...

Is there life beyond Earth? Join NASA's director of planetary science James Green for a survey of the places in our solar system that are most likely to harbor alien life.

Could there be intelligent life on other planets? This question has piqued imagination and curiosity for decades. Explore the answer with the Drake Equation -- a mathematical formula that calculates the possibility of undiscovered life. [Directed by Jeremiah Dickey, narrated by Jill Tarter].