I Had an Abortion
“I had an abortion… Or maybe I didn’t. What does it matter?” In opening with that question, ethicist, Leslie Cannold, challenges us to reshape our thinking on abortion.
TEDx – Bullying to Genocide
Genocide seems like a horror only extremely evil or insane people are capable of, but Barbara Coloroso explains how quickly anyone can go from being civil to genocidal behaviour. More […]
TEDx – Why We Go
William Pomerantz is the Vice President for Special Projects at Virgin Galactic. William’s thrilling answer to the question, “Why is it worth it to explore outer space?” leaves every audience […]
TED Talks: David Dow
What happens before a murder? In looking for ways to reduce death penalty cases, David R. Dow realized that a surprising number of death row inmates had similar biographies. In […]
TED Talks: Cesar Harada
When TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada heard about the devastating effects of the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, he quit his dream job and moved […]
Ted Talks: Jennifer Pahlka
Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can – and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new […]
TED Talks: Michael Anti
Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — ‘All the servers are in Beijing’ […]
TED Talks: Clay Shirky
The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub — so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay […]
TED Talks: Stefan Sagmeister
Using simple, delightful illustrations, designer Stefan Sagmeister shares his latest thinking on happiness — both the conscious and unconscious kind. His seven rules for life and design happiness can (with […]
TED Talks: Phil Borges
Photographer Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In documenting these endangered cultures, he intends to […]