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TEDxNyarugengeWomen: TEDxNyarugengeWomen 20201126 - an independently organized event
About this event: TEDx Nyarugenge Women will come at a critical timing when the world is grappling with covid19, climate change and other social upheavals such as the gender inequality, society injustices and systematic racism. TEDx is the right platform to organise and host speakers who shade light on some of the complex topics and issues and break them down for...
Event details: Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · December 3, 2020
TEDxYouth@Kew: Just another brick... - an independently organized event
About this event: Just another brick....in the wall? on the path? in the way? could bring down the wall?
"Just another brick...." aims to provide the opportunity to explore a deeper understanding of the world - their world, the world around them and the world they are contributing to. Supported by external and alumni speakers, Preshil students will explore ra...
Event details: Preshil - Kew, Australia
Fighting extremists and inequality: A playlist of talks about women’s education for Malala Day
“Let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism. Let us pick up our books and our pens, and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.”
These were the words spoken by 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, above, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 for advocating for girls’...
Posted July 15, 2013
TEDxExeter: Ideas without Frontiers - an independently organized event
About this event: At TEDxExeter 2014 our speakers and performers will connect us with other worlds. Our talks will expose corruption in big business, share effective approaches to tackling social inequality and give a voice to those whose human rights are under threat. We will explore the impact of fast changing technologies on all our lives. We’ll journey throug...
Event details: Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom · March 28, 2014
How small lies turn into big lies, what everyday objects tell us about inequality, and robots that lend a helping hand during disasters
Just a few of the intriguing headlines involving members of the TED community this week:
The cascading effect of small lies. Tali Sharot is the senior author on a paper published in Nature Neuroscience that sheds light on the possible slippery-slope effect of telling small, self-serving lies. Using an fMRI scanning device to monitor the a...
Posted November 4, 2016
TEDxVienna - an independently organized event
About this event: “On The Edge” is a sign of the times. On the one hand, humanity is experiencing exponential growth in ideas at the cutting edge of technology and science. On the other hand, society has seemingly been driven to the edge, with divisions rapidly spreading across the world.
Our conference will blend advances on the edge of a breakthrough in fields...
Event details: Vienna, Wien, Austria · October 21, 2017
TEDxAmsterdamWomen - an independently organized event
About this event: The gender gap proves we do need feminism. Indicators in health, politics, economics, and education show the gap is widening. Women and men around the world are taking action, raising their voices in a wave of protest. Change is coming. It’s time for equal pay and equal say. It’s time for a world that reflects women, too. Inequality won’t disapp...
Event details: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands · December 5, 2018
TEDxWarsaw - an independently organized event
About this event: In today's World challenges are now coming at us constantly, and from every direction. To deal with them in the time-honoured way of "wait and see" is no longer a viable option. Solutions to housing problems, social inequality, cultural tensions and environmental pollution are only going to be found if we dare to face the problems, instead of w...
Event details: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland · June 12, 2019
TEDxSwanseaWomen - an independently organized event
About this event: TEDxSwanseaWomen will include live presentations from four speakers including one of BBC’s 100 most inspirational women and full TEDWomen session live (almost) from San Fransisco's TED Women. This is an opportunity to be one of the first in the world to see the TED Women session!
With the theme of ‘shining a light on women,’ we hope that TEDxSw...
Event details: Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom · October 28, 2016
How did Nick Hanauer get onto TED's home page?!
There's a bit of a back story behind today's TED Talk, in which Nick Hanauer issues a powerful warning to his fellow zillionaire 'plutocrats' that it's time to take the inequality issue seriously, and makes the case to dramatically raise the minimum wage. Some of you may remember that two years ago there was an online spat between Nick and T...
Posted August 12, 2014
TEDxPortland - an independently organized event
About this event: PDX. Stumptown. Rose City. Portland has many nicknames, but perhaps the most enduring is Bridgetown — a nod to our iconic bridges and the culture of acceptance that fuels our creativity. Portland’s famed bridges represent our progress and expose our challenges. From a past tarnished with racial inequality to a present that seeks to transcend tha...
Event details: Portland, Oregon, United States · April 21, 2018
TEDxYouth@STA: TEDxYouth@STA 20210507 - an independently organized event
About this event: Where are we headed? What lies ahead? What's next? We're all moving on up!
TEDxYouth@STA proudly presents this year's theme of "Moving On Up", with a night full of amazing speeches from St. Thomas Aquinas Regional Secondary School's most talented speakers. Whether it's about exploring different math symbols, getting to the roots of gender inequ...
Event details: North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · June 22, 2021
Tarana Burke | TED Speaker
For more than 25 years, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of racial justice and sexual violence.
Civil rights activist
TEDxUnionCity - an independently organized event
About this event: Union City, the Bay Area, California, and the United States – each face similar tough challenges today at different levels: economic disparity, homelessness and gentrification, increasing traffic, violence and crime, racism, and gender spectrum inequality. We want to bring Ideas Worth Spreading to Union City and the larger region to which we bel...
Event details: Union City, California, United States · September 29, 2018
TEDxLBSIM: Growth For All - an independently organized event
About this event: What is growth in real sense if it is not meant for all? When growth benefits only elite section of the society, it causes more harm than good. Inequality amounts to sand in the gears of growth, creating volatility, fueling crises, undermining productivity and retarding growth.
TEDxLBSIM is an independently organized TEDx event which is being...
Event details: New Delhi, Delhi, India · February 2, 2013
TEDxPeacePlaza: "What's Possible" - an independently organized event
About this event: The first TEDxPeacePlaza took place on Saturday, November 9, 2013, at Pa'ina Lounge in San Francisco's Japantown.
Our speaker talks addressed our theme “What’s Possible.” Seemingly intractable problems. Surprisingly ingenious solutions. In a world full of inequality, conflict, and hardships, there are remarkable examples of what actually can ...
Event details: San Francisco, California, United States · November 9, 2013
Gretchen Carlson | TED Speaker
Gretchen Carlson is a tireless advocate for workplace equality and women's empowerment.
TV journalist, women's empowerment advocate
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
Thomas Piketty's “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” explained
A Piketty guide for lifelong learners.
When Thomas Piketty’s "Capital in the Twenty-first Century” was published earlier this year, it was something of a sensation. That’s no small feat for a chart-heavy doorstop on “the dismal science” of economics.
A fair portion of the book’s notoriety was due to its subject matter: wealth distribution, a...
Posted October 6, 2014
TEDxLaçador: Preparing Cities for the Future - an independently organized event
About this event: When creating a TEDx event name TED orients to choose symbols of neighborhoods, name of region or neighborhood, where TEDx event operates, so our TEDx is TEDxLaçador. A tribute to the symbol of Porto Alegre. Also to artists through its creator, Caringi, to people in the spirit of Passion Cortes (Laçador inspiration), and the idea of the loop tha...
Event details: Porto Alegre, Brazil · April 9, 2011
Justice, capitalism and progress: Paul Tudor Jones II at TED2015
Can capital be just? As a firm believer in capitalism and the free market, Paul Tudor Jones II believes that it can be. Jones is the founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation and the Tudor Group, which trade in the fixed-income, equity, currency and commodity markets. He thinks it is time to expand the “narrow definitions of capitalism” th...
Posted March 18, 2015
Hacktivism at the World Cup
Hacking is a term that prompts intense emotions, as we’ve seen in recent years with the likes of Kevin Mitnick, Evgeniy Bogachev and Sabu. But one thing’s clear: hackers can draw attention to important issues like nobody’s business. And by exposing weaknesses in our current online systems, they often help the web both evolve and improve. Such fo...
Posted June 10, 2014
What links the top 0.1 percent and the bottom billion? Rent
Paul Collier studies the poorest people on earth -- the 1 in 9 humans living in dysfunctional countries with broken economies, places whose income gaps are so wide it's hard for westerners to wrap their minds around it. In 2007, his book The Bottom Billion broke down the problems facing this group of people, stuck in failed and failing state...
Posted June 3, 2014
TEDxYouth@TBSNewDelhi: TEDxYouth@TBSNewDelhi 20210225 - an independently organized event
About this event: Wear a mask. Sanitise frequently. Maintain social distance. Who would have thought these diktats would be part of our daily life? Who would have thought a virus could cripple economies, stretch health care systems and bring the world to its knees?
As we wage a war against the pandemic, festering issues such as discrimination, inequality and cl...
Event details: New Delhi, Delhi, India · January 20, 2022
The real price of market values: Michael Sandel at TEDGlobal 2013
Political philosopher Michael Sandel -- the second "Michael from Harvard" this session -- returns to TED in the last session of TEDGlobal, "All Together Now," to address the marketization of our culture.
These days there's very little money can't buy. If you ever wind up in jail in San Diego, CA, and you find your cell uncomfortable, don'...
Posted June 14, 2013
Mark Ronson makes a cameo, Roxane Gay and Adam Grant discuss the pros and cons of social media, and much more
Please enjoy your roundup of TED-related news:
This one’s for the boys. Mark Ronson takes a break from making music to have some fun in Charli XCX’s video for “Boys.” You’ll find him (suavely) combing his hair, amid scenes of other male celebs, such as Wiz Khalifa, Riz Ahmed and Joe Jonas having a pillow fight or cuddling with puppies, in...
Posted August 9, 2017
Is growth over? Robert J. Gordon at TED2013
Could US economic growth be over? That's the provocative question that economist Robert J. Gordon begins with. And it's a big question. He points to travel: In 1900 travel was via the open buggy, at 1% the speed of sound. Sixty years later we travelled at 80% of the speed of sound in a Boeing 707. And since then, at a consumer level, we haven'...
Posted February 26, 2013
Why cities rule the world
Cities are the the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization -- and they're where humanity's struggle for survival will take place. Robert Muggah and Benjamin Barber spell out the possibilities.
Half the planet's population lives in cities. They are the world's engines, generating four-fifths of the global GDP. There are over 2,100 cities wi...
Posted May 31, 2016
The age of global plutocracy: Chrystia Freeland at TEDGlobal 2013
The most important economic fact of our time, says Chrystia Freeland, author of Plutocrats, is that we are living in an age of surging income inequality, a global phenomenon that includes the US and UK, certainly, but also Communist China, India, and, she says, "we're even seeing it cozy social democracies like Sweden, Finland and Germany."
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Posted June 12, 2013