How to keep the plutocracy from becoming an aristocracy: A Q&A with Chrystia Freeland
Chrystia Freeland writes about the power of money. As a journalist, she examines how money shapes society, impacts politics and essentially ...
TEDWeekends talks innovation for the Global South
[ted id=853] Malaria kills about 2,000 people every day. The mosquito-borne disease has ravaged the equatorial areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, ...
X Marks the Spot: A Mandela Day design project, plus this week’s TEDx Talks
This week, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday. For the participants of TEDxSoweto — which took place in April in Joha...
Andrew Mwenda on progress in Africa
In 2007, journalist Andrew Mwenda took the stage at TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania, and decried the symptomatic disease affecting his home co...
Talks to watch for World Population Day
Today, July 11, is World Population Day. Established by the Governing Council of the United Nation Development Program in 1989, to commemora...
Further reading and citations on global corruption’s hidden leaders
Charmian Gooch, co-founder of anti-corruption NGO Global Witness, tracks money to expose deep-rooted global corruption. In yesterday’s...
Some things are just untranslatable: TEDx playlists in French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian
With the increased teaching of English around the globe, world languages are dying at a rate of one every 14 days. In her classic talk from ...
Joel Selanikio’s system for collecting big data on global health: A tale of two playlists
It may be the age of big data, but it’s still very hard to know how many children were born in Bolivia or Botswana last year, or to know som...
8 talks about China
“When I was growing up, I was told a story that explained all I ever needed to know about humanity. It went like this,” says Eric X. Li in t...