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Infographic: The reality of violence against women

Often, discussions about equality center around leaning in, or whether or not the glass ceiling has got cracks in it. But for many women, the focus is on surviving everyday violence, assault and rape -- a daily struggle that plays a part in keeping a billion people locked into poverty. Gary Haugen (TED Talk: The hidden reason for poverty the wor...
Posted July 21, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/infographic-the-reality-of-violence-against-women

Bones of remembrance: Fellows Friday with Naomi Natale

For four years, artist Naomi Natale’s social art practice, the One Million Bones project, has used education, hands-on artmaking and public art installation to raise awareness of ongoing genocide and mass atrocities. On June 8, Naomi and the One Million Bones team will be joined by thousands of volunteers to lay down the one million human “b...
Posted May 24, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/05/24/bones-of-remembrance-fellows-friday-with-naomi-natale

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

TEDxBoulevardMsiri - an independently organized event

About this event: Dans l'esprit des idées qui valent la peine d'être diffusées, TED a créé un programme appelé TEDx. TEDx est un programme d'événements locaux auto-organisés qui rassemblent les gens pour partager une expérience de type TED. TEDxBoulevardMsiri est un événement destiné à développer la communauté TED et TEDx en RDC avec une vision pour présenter de...
Event details: LUBUMBASHI, Katanga, DR Congo · January 31, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/35300

AK-47s transformed into jewelry and watches, thanks to a chance meeting in a TED hallway

The watch looks both futuristic and retro at the same time. A swirl of visible gears and carefully calibrated dials, it charts time in an unusual way — the hour jumps into place at the top, the minute is marked in a semicircle along the bottom, and the seconds swoop above. It’s a statement watch, the kind of piece that people inevitably ask ...
Posted May 1, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/05/01/ak-47s-transformed-into-jewelry-and-watches

How big is the ocean? A summer-appropriate TED-Ed lesson

“Imagine yourself standing on a beach, looking out at the ocean -- waves crashing against the shore, blue as far as your eyes can see." This is the opening line of Scott Gass’ TED-Ed lesson, “How big is the ocean?” But the animated video gives you much more to think about than sand between your toes and waves tickling a white sandy paradise. I...
Posted July 8, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/07/08/how-big-is-the-ocean-a-summer-appropriate-ted-ed-lesson

TEDxMakomeno: TEDxMakomeno 20220514 - an independently organized event

About this event: Le changement peut paraître douloureux, mais rien n'est plus pénible que de rester coincé quelque part où tu ne veux plus être. » « On ne change pas les choses en combattant la réalité existante. Pour changer quelque chose, construis un nouveau modèle qui rendra l'ancien obsolète. bienvenue au rendez-vous du savoir
Event details: LUBUMBASHI, Katanga, DR Congo · June 23, 2022
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/47400

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

From the Mascarene Islands to Syria, reports from the field: A recap of session 4 of TEDGlobal 2014

The theme of Session 4 is Field Work -- and we're hearing from people who get outside, who work in the field and hear what's really going on. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is a professor at the University of Mauritius, and she’s here this morning to show us five plants unique to where she works and lives: the Mascarene Islands. She introduces us to...
Posted October 8, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/10/08/a-recap-of-session-4-of-tedglobal-2014