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Ian Dunbar: Dog-friendly dog training

Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, trainer Ian Dunbar asks us to see the world through the eyes of our beloved dogs. By knowing our pets' perspective, we can build their love and trust. It's a message that resonates well beyond the animal world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ian_dunbar_dog_friendly_dog_training

Malcolm London: "High School Training Ground"

Young poet, educator and activist Malcolm London performs his stirring poem about life on the front lines of high school. He tells of the "oceans of adolescence" who come to school "but never learn to swim," of "masculinity mimicked by men who grew up with no fathers." Beautiful, lyrical, chilling.
https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_london_high_school_training_ground

Shelley Shott: Training teachers: 10 million and counting

The Intel Teach program has trained over 10 million teachers who have transferred these skills to 300 million kids in over 70 countries. Shelley Shott charts the impact of this program, sharing inspiring stories of technology empowering both teachers and students to both create opportunity and benefit their communities.
https://www.ted.com/talks/shelley_shott_training_teachers_10_million_and_counting

Playlist: Talks for dog lovers (6 talks)

These talks celebrate the special bond we form with our loyal, furry companions.
Curated by TED · 6 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/ted_talks_for_dog_lovers

Tamekia MizLadi Smith: How to train employees to have difficult conversations

It's time to invest in face-to-face training that empowers employees to have difficult conversations, says Tamekia MizLadi Smith. In a witty, provocative talk, Smith shares a workplace training program called "I'm G.R.A.C.E.D." that will inspire bosses and employees alike to communicate with compassion and respect. Bottom line: always let people...
https://www.ted.com/talks/tamekia_mizladi_smith_how_to_train_employees_to_have_difficult_conversations

Playlist: TV Special: TED Talks Education (8 talks)

How can we create an education system that works for kids, instead of against them? Watch eight inspiring talks from TED's May 2013 PBS special, given in their entirety.
Curated by TED · 8 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/tv_special_ted_talks_educatio

Playlist: Talks for when growing up is hard (8 talks)

The path to adulthood is, at times, a rough one. These talks offer words of comfort and heaps of advice for those moments when life feels way too overwhelming.
Curated by TED · 8 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/talks_for_when_growing_up_is_hard

Mark Halliday: Bring out your inner filmmaker

Video is ubiquitous. Companies use it for entertainment, marketing, training – and customers generally expect it. Mark Halliday describes "Studio in a Box," a program he put together which allows State Street employees to make professional-quality videos of their own.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_halliday_bring_out_your_inner_filmmaker

Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table

Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you explore, dissect and understand the body's parts and systems.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_choi_on_the_virtual_dissection_table

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers

Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision.
https://www.ted.com/talks/sharmeen_obaid_chinoy_inside_a_school_for_suicide_bombers

Helen Gillet: "You Found Me"

Cellist and singer Helen Gillet mixes her classical training, New Orleans-based jazz roots and free improvisational skills to perform her own eclectic music. In a powerful, melodious performance, she plays her song "You Found Me."
https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_gillet_you_found_me

Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn't a broken person

Cross-country skier Janine Shepherd hoped for an Olympic medal -- until she was hit by a truck during a training bike ride. She shares a powerful story about the human potential for recovery. Her message: you are not your body, and giving up old dreams can allow new ones to soar.
https://www.ted.com/talks/janine_shepherd_a_broken_body_isn_t_a_broken_person

Hector Garcia: We train soldiers for war. Let's train them to come home, too

Before soldiers are sent into combat, they're trained on how to function in an immensely dangerous environment. But they also need training on how to return from the battlefield to civilian life, says psychologist Hector Garcia. Applying the same principles used to prepare soldiers for war, Garcia is helping veterans suffering from PTSD get thei...
https://www.ted.com/talks/hector_garcia_we_train_soldiers_for_war_let_s_train_them_to_come_home_too

Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all

Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close to 90 percent go untreated because psychiatrists are in such short supply. Vikram Patel outlines a highly promising approach -- training members of communities to give mental health interv...
https://www.ted.com/talks/vikram_patel_mental_health_for_all_by_involving_all

Bart Weetjens | TED Speaker

The founder of Apopo, Bart Weet­jens, is train­ing rats to detect landmine explosives in minute amounts.
Product developer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/bart_weetjens

Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

Cynthia Breazeal wonders: Why can we use robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms? The key, she says, is in training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds robots that teach, learn -- and play. Watch for amazing demo footage of a new interactive game for kids.
https://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_breazeal_the_rise_of_personal_robots

Ewandro Magalhaes: How interpreters juggle two languages at once

Language is complex, and when abstract or nuanced concepts get lost in translation, the consequences may be catastrophic. Given the complexities of language and cultural exchange, how do these epic miscommunications not happen all the time? Ewandro Magalhaes explains how much of the answer lies with the skill and training of interpreters to over...
https://www.ted.com/talks/ewandro_magalhaes_how_interpreters_juggle_two_languages_at_once

Kartick Satyanarayan: How we rescued the "dancing bears"

Traditionally, the Kalandar community of India has survived by capturing sloth bear cubs and training them to "dance" through extreme cruelty. Kartick Satyanarayan has been able to put an end to this centuries-old practice, and in so doing discovered a lesson of wider significance: make the practitioners part of the solution.
https://www.ted.com/talks/kartick_satyanarayan_how_we_rescued_the_dancing_bears

Tim Harford: A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity

What can we learn from the world's most enduringly creative people? They "slow-motion multitask," actively juggling multiple projects and moving between topics as the mood strikes -- without feeling hurried. Author Tim Harford shares how innovators like Einstein, Darwin, Twyla Tharp and Michael Crichton found their inspiration and productivity t...
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford_a_powerful_way_to_unleash_your_natural_creativity

Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

No one knows exactly how many landmines still litter the world, but it's safe to say: millions, waiting to kill and maim unsuspecting civilians. Clearing them is slow, expensive and dangerous. The founder of Apopo, Bart Weetjens, talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in ac...
https://www.ted.com/talks/bart_weetjens_how_i_taught_rats_to_sniff_out_land_mines

Henrietta Fore: How we can help young people build a better future

A massive generation of young people is about to inherit the world, and it's the duty of everyone to give them a fighting chance for their futures, says UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore. In this forward-looking talk, she explores the crises facing them and details an ambitious new global initiative, Generation Unlimited, which aims to en...
https://www.ted.com/talks/henrietta_fore_how_we_can_help_young_people_build_a_better_future

Tim Exile: An instrument anyone can play

The problem with music, says Tim Exile, is that it's so perfect. For those of us who didn't grow up playing an instrument, we're often too afraid to try because it doesn't sound like the masterful music we hear. In a talk-performance hybrid, Exile demos a software instrument that he designed to allow anyone, whether they have musical training or...
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_exile_an_instrument_anyone_can_play

Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We're not ready

In 2014, the world avoided a global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers -- plus, frankly, some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now's the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training....
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready

Erika Gregory: The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons

Today nine nations collectively control more than 15,000 nuclear weapons, each hundreds of times more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We don't need more nuclear weapons; we need a new generation to face the unfinished challenge of disarmament started decades ago. Nuclear reformer Erika Gregory calls on today's rising leade...
https://www.ted.com/talks/erika_gregory_the_world_doesn_t_need_more_nuclear_weapons

Jon Bowers | TED Speaker

UPS's Jon Bowers oversees driver and delivery training at one of the company's next-generation training facilities.
Perfection enthusiast
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jon_bowers

Training the brains of psychopaths: Daniel Reisel at TED2013

  Daniel Reisel is here to talk about our brains. In particular, how we might change them--and how this kind of thinking might just change the tenor of society as a whole. He introduces us to Joe, who's 32, and a murderer. Reisel met Joe in Wormwood Scrubs, a high-security prison that houses England's most dangerous prisoners. On a gra...
Posted March 1, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/03/01/training-the-brains-of-psychopaths-daniel-reisel-at-ted2013

Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art

Theaster Gates, a potter by training and a social activist by calling, wanted to do something about the sorry state of his neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. So he did, transforming abandoned buildings to create community hubs that connect and inspire those who still live there (and draw in those who don't). In this passionate talk, Gate...
https://www.ted.com/talks/theaster_gates_how_to_revive_a_neighborhood_with_imagination_beauty_and_art

Andrés Ruzo: The boiling river of the Amazon

When Andrés Ruzo was a young boy in Peru, his grandfather told him a story with an odd detail: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years later, after training as a geoscientist, he set out on a journey deep into the jungle of South America in search of this boiling river. At a time when everythin...
https://www.ted.com/talks/andres_ruzo_the_boiling_river_of_the_amazon

Deanna Van Buren: What a world without prisons could look like

Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration, treat crime as a breach of relationships and justice as a process where all stakeholders come together to repair that breach. With help and ideas from incarcerated men and women, Van Buren is creating...
https://www.ted.com/talks/deanna_van_buren_what_a_world_without_prisons_could_look_like

Siddhartha Roy: Science in service to the public good

We give scientists and engineers great technical training, but we're not as good at teaching ethical decision-making or building character. Take, for example, the environmental crisis that recently unfolded in Flint, Michigan -- and the professionals there who did nothing to fix it. Siddhartha Roy helped prove that Flint's water was contaminated...
https://www.ted.com/talks/siddhartha_roy_science_in_service_to_the_public_good
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