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Video: Three views of tech innovation in Africa
Cities

Video: Three views of tech innovation in Africa

These three fascinating videos made by TED and IBM show how technology is helping solve problems in three case studies across Africa, filmed...

Mar 18, 2016
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Let’s talk about poo: Fellows Friday with Francis de los Reyes III
Development

Let’s talk about poo: Fellows Friday with Francis de los Reyes III

Environmental engineer Francis de los Reyes works with cutting-edge microbiological techniques to create solutions in the fields of environm...

Jan 10, 2014
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Red Hook still hurting after Hurricane Sandy: A diary
Culture

Red Hook still hurting after Hurricane Sandy: A diary

New York is slowly but surely coming back to life after being battered by Hurricane Sandy. Nearly all of Manhattan has electricity, and subw...

Nov 3, 2012
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Development

“We quite suddenly realized that we were looking at a general pattern”: Q&A with Richard Wilkinson

In 2009, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published the book The Spirit Level, making a bold case that economic inequality...

Oct 26, 2011
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Culture

How economic inequality harms societies: Richard Wilkinson on TED.com

We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequ...

Oct 24, 2011
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Development

Video: Meet TEDx in a Box version 2.0

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/30656539 w=525&h=294] TEDx in a Box is a toolkit with all the gear needed to host a TEDx event in the developing...

Oct 18, 2011
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Culture

The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee: Ian Ritchie on TED.com

Imagine it’s late 1990, and you’ve just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts telling you about his proposed sy...

Oct 12, 2011
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Culture

Finding life we can’t imagine: Christoph Adami on TED.com

How do we search for alien life if it’s nothing like the life that we know? At TEDxUIUC Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research...

Oct 4, 2011
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Culture

The generation that’s remaking China: Yang Lan on TED.com

Yang Lan, a journalist and entrepreneur who’s been called “the Oprah of China,” offers insight into the next generation of...

Oct 3, 2011
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