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: Megan Kamerick

How do you tell women’s stories? Ask women to tell them. At TEDxABQ, Megan Kamerick shows how the news media underrepresents women as reporters and news sources, and because of […]
TED Talks: Caroline Casey

Activist Caroline Casey tells the story of her extraordinary life, starting with a revelation (no spoilers). In a talk that challenges perceptions, Casey asks us all to move beyond the […]
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 […]