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Working for the health of the many: How Asher Hasan is bringing insurance coverage to Pakistan’s low-income workers
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Working for the health of the many: How Asher Hasan is bringing insurance coverage to Pakistan’s low-income workers

Growing up in the UK and coming of age in Pakistan, TEDIndia Fellow Asher Hasan observed a vast discrepancy: those with and without access t...

Feb 28, 2014
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Biohacker meets Willy Wonka: Lucy McRae on the making of the incredible edible music video for Architecture in Helsinki

TED Fellow Lucy McRae (watch her TED Talk) is a body architect — an artist who explores how technology and the body may someday meet a...

Feb 14, 2014
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Green is the new red: Will Potter on the problem of treating environmentalists like terrorists
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Green is the new red: Will Potter on the problem of treating environmentalists like terrorists

When Chicago Tribune reporter Will Potter went to pass out animal rights leaflets, he had no idea the FBI would single him out and pressure ...

Jan 31, 2014
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A TED Fellow confesses to having only $5 to their name …
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A TED Fellow confesses to having only $5 to their name …

At the recent TED Fellows Retreat in Whistler, Canada, artist Candy Chang set up an interactive art piece called Confessions that invited th...

Sep 6, 2013
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Our strange relationship to screens: Performance artist Lars Jan explores our hyper-networked world
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Our strange relationship to screens: Performance artist Lars Jan explores our hyper-networked world

Lars Jan, a TED Fellow, creates multimedia performances that probe the ubiquity of screens and propaganda in our culture. Today, his show AB...

Nov 4, 2011
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