The best way to help is often just to listen | Sophie Andrews
09 Mar 2018
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A 24-hour helpline in the UK known as Samaritans helped Sophie Andrews become a survivor of abuse ra...
To solve the world's biggest problems, invest in women and girls | Musimbi Kanyoro
08 Mar 2018
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As CEO of the Global Fund for Women, Musimbi Kanyoro works to support women and their ideas so they ...
The wonderful world of life in a drop of water | Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman
07 Mar 2018
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"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny or...
How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for | Kaustav Dey
06 Mar 2018
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No one thinks twice about a woman wearing blue jeans in New York City -- but when Nobel laureate Mal...
What soccer can teach us about freedom | Marc Bamuthi Joseph
05 Mar 2018
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"Soccer is the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together," says theater maker a...
What I learned when I conquered the world's toughest triathlon | Minda Dentler
05 Mar 2018
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A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and then a full-length marathon on hot, dry ground -- with ...
How to connect with depressed friends | Bill Bernat
02 Mar 2018
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Want to connect with a depressed friend but not sure how to relate to them? Comedian and storyteller...
How we became sisters | Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy
02 Mar 2018
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Poets Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy perform excerpts from their play "Other Women," which is crea...
To learn is to be free | Shameem Akhtar
01 Mar 2018
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Shameem Akhtar posed as a boy during her early childhood in Pakistan so she could enjoy the privileg...
How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet | Dustin Schroeder
01 Mar 2018
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Antarctica is a vast and dynamic place, but radar technologies -- from World War II-era film to stat...
The role of human emotions in science and research | Illona Stengel
26 Feb 2018
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Do human emotions have a role to play in science and research? Material researcher Ilona Stengel sug...
You don't have to be an expert to solve big problems | Tapiwa Chiwewe
23 Feb 2018
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Driving in Johannesburg one day, Tapiwa Chiwewe noticed an enormous cloud of air pollution hanging o...
Refugees want empowerment, not handouts | Robert Hakiza
22 Feb 2018
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The prevailing image of where refugees live is of temporary camps in isolated areas -- but in realit...
How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex | Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi
22 Feb 2018
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From our fear of women's bodies to our sheepishness around the word "nipple," our ideas about sex ne...
A life-saving invention that prevents human stampedes | Nilay Kulkarni
21 Feb 2018
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Every three years, more than 30 million Hindu worshippers gather for the Kumbh Mela in India, the wo...
How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us | Margaret Mitchell
20 Feb 2018
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As a research scientist at Google, Margaret Mitchell helps develop computers that can communicate ab...
How (and why) Russia hacked the US election | Laura Galante
19 Feb 2018
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Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in...
The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet | Tanya Menon
16 Feb 2018
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We often find ourselves stuck in narrow social circles with similar people. What habits confine us, ...
3 creative ways to fix fashion's waste problem | Amit Kalra
15 Feb 2018
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What happens to the clothes we don't buy? You might think that last season's coats, trousers and tur...
Fashion that celebrates African strength and spirit | Wale Oyejide
15 Feb 2018
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"To be African is to be inspired by culture and to be filled with undying hope for the future," says...
The virginity fraud | Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl
13 Feb 2018
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The hymen is still the most misunderstood part of the female body. Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen ...
Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system | Bhu Srinivasan
12 Feb 2018
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Bhu Srinivasan researches the intersection of capitalism and technological progress. Instead of thin...
How protest is redefining democracy around the world | Zachariah Mampilly
08 Feb 2018
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The democratic process is messy, complicated and often inefficient -- but across Africa, activists a...
This company pays kids to do their math homework | Mohamad Jebara
08 Feb 2018
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Mohamad Jebara loves mathematics -- but he's concerned that too many students grow up thinking that ...
How architecture can create dignity for all | John Cary
07 Feb 2018
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If architect and writer John Cary has his way, women will never need to stand in pointlessly long ba...
How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time | Su Kahumbu
06 Feb 2018
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Su Kahumbu raises badass cows -- healthy, well-fed animals whose protein is key to solving a growing...
This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life | Karen Lloyd
06 Feb 2018
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How deep into the Earth can we go and still find life? Marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd introduces ...
How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism | Stuart Duncan
02 Feb 2018
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The internet can be an ugly place, but you won't find bullies or trolls on Stuart Duncan's Minecraft...
How I earned a law diploma while on death row | Peter Ouko
02 Feb 2018
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Peter Ouko spent 18 years in Kamiti Prison in Kenya, sometimes locked up in a cell with 13 other gro...
How we can use space technology to improve life on Earth | Danielle Wood
01 Feb 2018
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Danielle Wood leads the Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab, where she works to tear d...
Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa
01 Feb 2018
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"It is the artist's job to unearth stories that people try to bury with shovels of complacency and t...
My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar
31 Jan 2018
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Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, fun...
Could the social lives of fish help us save coral reefs? | Mike Gil
30 Jan 2018
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Mike Gil spies on fish: using novel multi-camera systems and computer vision technology, the TED Fel...
Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes | Fredros Okumu
29 Jan 2018
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What do we really know about mosquitoes? Fredros Okumu catches and studies these disease-carrying in...
The thrilling potential for off-grid solar energy | Amar Inamdar
26 Jan 2018
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There's an energy revolution happening in villages and towns across Africa -- off-grid solar energy ...
What's it like to be a robot? | Leila Takayama
25 Jan 2018
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We already live among robots: tools and machines like dishwashers and thermostats so integrated into...
What if you could turn plastic trash into cash? | David Katz
25 Jan 2018
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Can we solve the problem of ocean plastic pollution and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's...
The dangerous evolution of HIV | Edsel Salvana
23 Jan 2018
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Think we're winning the battle against HIV? Maybe not, as the next wave of drug-resistant viruses ar...
The business benefits of doing good | Wendy Woods
23 Jan 2018
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"The only way we're going to make substantial progress on the challenging problems of our time is fo...
An economic case for protecting the planet | Naoko Ishii
22 Jan 2018
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We all share one planet -- we breathe the same air, drink the same water and depend on the same ocea...
What comes after tragedy? Forgiveness | Azim Khamisa and Ples Felix
19 Jan 2018
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On one awful night in 1995, Ples Felix's 14-year-old grandson murdered Azim Khamisa's son in a gang ...
American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how | Bob Inglis
18 Jan 2018
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Former Republican member of the U.S. Congress Bob Inglis shares an optimistic message about how cons...
The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care | Scott Williams
17 Jan 2018
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Once a cared-for patient and now a caregiver himself, Scott Williams highlights the invaluable role ...
Talk about your death while you're still healthy | Michelle Knox
16 Jan 2018
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Do you know what you want when you die? Do you know how you want to be remembered? In a candid, hear...
The search for "aha!" moments | Matt Goldman
16 Jan 2018
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In 1988, Matt Goldman and a few friends created the Blue Man Group, an off-Broadway production that ...
We need to talk about an injustice | Bryan Stevenson
15 Jan 2018
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In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- hu...
How to put the power of law in people's hands | Vivek Maru
12 Jan 2018
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What can you do when the wheels of justice don't turn fast enough? Or when they don't turn at all? V...
How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage | Alexis Charpentier
11 Jan 2018
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For generations, record collectors have played a vital role in the preservation of musical and cultu...
How we can stop Africa's scientific brain drain | Kevin Njabo
10 Jan 2018
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How can Africans find solutions to Africa's problems? Conservation biologist Kevin Njabo tells his p...
Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs | Soyapi Mumba
09 Jan 2018
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In sub-Saharan Africa, power outages, low technology penetration, slow internet and understaffed hos...
How adaptive clothing empowers people with disabilities | Mindy Scheier
09 Jan 2018
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Do you have a favorite T-shirt or pair of jeans that transforms you and makes you feel confident -- ...
Inside Africa's thriving art scene | Touria El Glaoui
08 Jan 2018
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Art curator Touria El Glaoui is on a mission to showcase vital new art from African nations and the ...
Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist | Stewart Brand and Chris Anderson
05 Jan 2018
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Stewart Brand is a futurist, counterculturist and visionary with a very wide-ranging mind. In conver...
What we don't teach kids about sex | Sue Jaye Johnson
04 Jan 2018
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As parents, it's our job to teach our kids about sex. But beyond "the talk," which covers biology an...
Our treatment of HIV has advanced. Why hasn't the stigma changed? | Arik Hartmann
04 Jan 2018
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The treatment of HIV has significantly advanced over the past three decades -- why hasn't our percep...
3 thoughtful ways to conserve water | Lana Mazahreh
03 Jan 2018
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According to the UN, nearly one in three people worldwide live in a country facing a water crisis, a...
How adoption worked for me | Christopher Ategeka
02 Jan 2018
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Talent is universal, but opportunity isn't, says TED Fellow Christopher Ategeka. In this charming, h...
The single biggest reason why startups succeed | Bill Gross
29 Dec 2017
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Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others -- and he got curious about why ...
The untapped genius that could change science for the better | Jedidah Isler
28 Dec 2017
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Jedidah Isler dreamt of becoming an astrophysicist since she was a young girl, but the odds were aga...
Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson
27 Dec 2017
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Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, a...
How to make hard choices | Ruth Chang
26 Dec 2017
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Here's a talk that could literally change your life. Which career should I pursue? Should I break up...
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger
25 Dec 2017
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What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not ...
How frustration can make us more creative | Tim Harford
22 Dec 2017
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Challenges and problems can derail your creative process ... or they can make you more creative than...
"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves | Heather Lanier
21 Dec 2017
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Heather Lanier's daughter Fiona has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a genetic condition that results in de...
The next generation of African architects and designers | Christian Benimana
21 Dec 2017
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Christian Benimana wants to build a network of architects who can help Africa's booming cities flour...
A mother and son united by love and art | Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas
20 Dec 2017
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An art school professor once told Deborah Willis that she, as a woman, was taking a place from a goo...
The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths | Yvette Alberdingk Thijm
19 Dec 2017
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Could smartphones and cameras be our most powerful weapon for social justice? Through her organizati...
A vehicle built in Africa, for Africa | Joel Jackson
19 Dec 2017
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Joel Jackson wants to reimagine transportation around the needs of the African consumer. He's design...
How China is changing the future of shopping | Angela Wang
14 Dec 2017
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China is a huge laboratory of innovation, says retail expert Angela Wang, and in this lab, everythin...
A new weapon in the fight against superbugs | David Brenner
14 Dec 2017
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Since the widespread use of antibiotics began in the 1940s, we've tried to develop new drugs faster ...
Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace | Kamau Gachigi
13 Dec 2017
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Africa needs engineers, but its engineering students often end up working at auditing firms and bank...
Lessons from a solar storm chaser | Miho Janvier
12 Dec 2017
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Space physicist Miho Janvier studies solar storms: giant clouds of particles that escape from the Su...
Free yourself from your filter bubbles | Joan Blades and John Gable
12 Dec 2017
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Joan Blades and John Gable want you to make friends with people who vote differently than you do. A ...
Adventures of an interplanetary architect | Xavier de Kestelier
11 Dec 2017
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How will we live elsewhere in the galaxy? On Earth, natural resources for creating structures are ab...
How augmented reality could change the future of surgery | Nadine Hachach-Haram
08 Dec 2017
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If you're undergoing surgery, you want the best surgical team to collaborate on your case, no matter...
How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit | Devita Davison
07 Dec 2017
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There's something amazing growing in the city of Detroit: healthy, accessible, delicious, fresh food...
What makes something go viral? | Dao Nguyen
07 Dec 2017
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What's the secret to making content people love? Join BuzzFeed's Publisher Dao Nguyen for a glimpse ...
How can groups make good decisions? | Mariano Sigman and Dan Ariely
06 Dec 2017
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We all know that when we make decisions in groups, they don't always go right -- and sometimes they ...
How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime | Alistair Gray
06 Dec 2017
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What's the harm in buying a knock-off purse or a fake designer watch? According to counterfeit inves...
The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg
05 Dec 2017
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There's nothing quite like a good night's sleep. What if technology could help us get more out of it...
A Republican mayor's plan to replace partisanship with policy | GT Bynum
30 Nov 2017
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Conventional wisdom says that to win an election, you need to play to your constituencies' basest, m...
The new generation of computers is programming itself | Sebastian Thrun and Chris Anderson
30 Nov 2017
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Educator and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun wants us to use AI to free humanity of repetitive work and...
Fashion has a pollution problem -- can biology fix it? | Natsai Audrey Chieza
29 Nov 2017
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Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer on a mission -- to reduce pollution in the fashion industry while...
The future of good food in China | Matilda Ho
28 Nov 2017
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Fresh food free of chemicals and pesticides is hard to come by in China: in 2016, the Chinese govern...
How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives | Keller Rinaudo
28 Nov 2017
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Keller Rinaudo wants everyone on earth to have access to basic health care, no matter how hard it is...
The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn
27 Nov 2017
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What makes our bodies age ... our skin wrinkle, our hair turn white, our immune systems weaken? Biol...
How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure
24 Nov 2017
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Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Here's Julian Treasure to help. In ...
An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine | Leah Chase
22 Nov 2017
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Leah Chase's New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase changed the course of American history over gumbo an...
Activism needs introverts | Sarah Corbett
21 Nov 2017
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For the introverts among us, traditional forms activism like marches, protests and door-to-door canv...
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions | Scott Galloway
21 Nov 2017
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The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GD...
The hidden opportunities of the informal economy | Niti Bhan
20 Nov 2017
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Niti Bhan studies business strategy for Africa's informal markets: the small shops and stands, skill...
Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage | Kayla Briët
17 Nov 2017
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Kayla Briët creates art that explores identity and self-discovery -- and the fear that her culture ...
How my dad's dementia changed my idea of death (and life) | Beth Malone
16 Nov 2017
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With warmth and grace, Beth Malone tells the deeply personal story of her dad's struggle with fronto...
How the military fights climate change | David Titley
15 Nov 2017
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Military leaders have known for millennia that the time to prepare for a challenge is before it hits...
The Housing First approach to homelessness | Lloyd Pendleton
14 Nov 2017
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What do you think would happen if you invited an individual with mental health issues who had been h...
How to talk (and listen) to transgender people | Jackson Bird
14 Nov 2017
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Gender should be the least remarkable thing about someone, but transgender people are still too ofte...
What I learned serving time for a crime I didn't commit | Teresa Njoroge
13 Nov 2017
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In 2011, Teresa Njoroge was convicted of a financial crime she didn't commit -- the result of a long...
How judges can show respect | Victoria Pratt
10 Nov 2017
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In halls of justice around the world, how can we ensure everyone is treated with dignity and respect...
The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions | Robert Muggah
09 Nov 2017
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With fantastic new maps that show interactive, visual representations of urban fragility, Robert Mug...
We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure | Jon Bowers
09 Nov 2017
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Sometimes trying your best isn't enough; when the situation demands it, you need to be perfect. For ...