👁How to grow a forest in your backyard
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👣Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of native species in urban areas by engineering soil, microbes and biomass to kickstart natural growth processes. Follow along as he describes how to grow a 100-year-old forest in just 10 years, and learn how you can get in on this tiny jungle party.

#TED@BCG_Paris #botany #cities #design #ecology #engineering #environment #future #green #garden #microbes #microbiology #natural_resources #nature #science #plants #entrepreneur #sustainability #TED_Fellows #trees #urban_planning #global_development #india #fungi

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👁How the arts help homeless youth heal and build
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👣Malika Whitley is the founder of ChopArt, an organization for homeless teens focused on mentorship, dignity and opportunity through the arts. In this moving, personal talk, she shares her story of homelessness and finding her voice through arts -- and her mission to provide a creative outlet for others who have been pushed to the margins of society.

#TED_Residency #creativity #homelessness #personal_growth #activism #humanity #society #social_change #art

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👁Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them
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👣Do you think you're good at spotting fake videos, where famous people say things they've never said in real life? See how they're made in this astonishing talk and tech demo. Computer scientist Supasorn Suwajanakorn shows how, as a grad student, he used AI and 3D modeling to create photorealistic fake videos of people synced to audio. Learn more about both the ethical implications and the creative possibilities of this tech -- and the steps being taken to fight against its misuse.

#TED2018 #AI #machine_learning #technology #invention #future #media #politics #history #software #computers

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👁My love letter to cosplay
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👣Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes -- from a childhood space helmet made of an ice cream tub to a No-Face costume he wore to Comic-Con -- Savage explores the world of cosplay and the meaning it creates for its community. \"We're connecting with something important inside of us,\" he says. \"The costumes are how we reveal ourselves to each other.\"

#TED2016 #adventure #art #beauty #communication #collaboration #community #design #humor #entertainment #identity #materials #personality #performance #storytelling #creativity

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👁To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation
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👣In this eye-opening talk about the impact of race and neighborhood on foster-care decisions, social worker Jessica Pryce shares a promising solution to help child welfare agencies make bias-free assessments about when to remove children from their families. \"Let's work together to build a system that wants to make families stronger instead of pulling them apart,\" Pryce says.

#TED_Residency #children #social_change #activism #TED_Residency #race #family

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👁What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet
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👣Ecologist Deborah Gordon studies ants wherever she can find them -- in the desert, in the tropics, in her kitchen ... In this fascinating talk, she explains her obsession with insects most of us would happily swat away without a second thought. She argues that ant life provides a useful model for learning about many other topics, including disease, technology and the human brain.

#TED2014 #ants #insects #nature #science #biomimicry #Internet #evolution #cancer #animals #algorithm #computers

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👁How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies
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👣Our universe is strange, wonderful and vast, says astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker. A spaceship can't carry you into its depths (yet) -- but a radio telescope can. In this mesmerizing talk, Hurley-Walker shows how she probes the mysteries of the universe using special technology that reveals light spectrums we can't see.

#TEDxPerth #universe #astronomy #space #telescopes #discovery

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👁How to escape education's death valley
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👣Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational \"death valley\" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

#TED_Talks_Education #culture #education #testing #teaching

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👁How do you explain consciousness?
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👣Our consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence, says philosopher David Chalmers: “There’s nothing we know about more directly…. but at the same time it’s the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe.” He shares some ways to think about the movie playing in our heads.

#TED2014 #brain #consciousness #neuroscience #philosophy

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👁A futuristic vision of the age of holograms
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👣Explore a speculative digital world without screens in this fanciful demo, a mix of near reality and far-future possibility. Wearing the HoloLens headset, Alex Kipman demos his vision for bringing 3D holograms into the real world, enhancing our perceptions so that we can touch and feel digital content. Featuring Q&A with TED's Helen Walters.

#TED2016 #communication #computers #engineering #creativity #design #exploration #innovation #interface_design #microsoft #invention #potential #NASA #product_design #prediction #visualizations #technology #future

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👁Can design save newspapers?
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👣Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might.

#TED2009 #business #creativity #culture #design #media #typography

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👁What I learned from going blind in space
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👣There's an astronaut saying: In space, “there is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse.” So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary situations? Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid portrait of how to be prepared for the worst in space (and life) -- and it starts with walking into a spider’s web. Watch for a special space-y performance.

#TED2014 #adventure #culture #fear #life #live_music #space

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👁Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers
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👣They're millions of digits long, and it takes an army of mathematicians and machines to hunt them down -- what's not to love about monster primes? Adam Spencer, comedian and lifelong math geek, shares his passion for these odd numbers, and for the mysterious magic of math.

#TED2013 #humor #math

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👁An 8-dimensional model of the universe
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👣Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, it's the most beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementary particles and forces you've ever seen.

#TED2008 #physics #science #technology

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👁An interview with Mauritius's first female president
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👣Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has been an academic, an entrepreneur and is now the president of Mauritius -- the first Muslim female head of state in Africa. In a wide-ranging conversation with journalist Stephanie Busari, Gurib-Fakim discusses the humble beginnings of her political career, what it's like to be both a person of faith and a scientist and why we need to value traditional African knowledge, among much more. \"I don't think you should take yourself seriously,\" she says. \"You need to have trust in what you can do, have confidence in yourself and give yourself a set of goals and just work towards them.\"

#TEDGlobal_2017 #Africa #biodiversity #faith #creativity #government #interview #society #sustainability #politics #social_change #science #women

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👁Bio-lab on a microchip
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👣Drugs alone can't stop disease in sub-Saharan Africa: We need diagnostic tools to match. TED Senior Fellow Frederick Balagadde shows how we can multiply the power and availability of an unwieldy, expensive diagnostic lab -- by miniaturizing it to the size of a chip.

#TED2010 #TED_Fellows #biology #engineering #invention #microbiology

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👁Making sense of string theory
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👣Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.

#TED2005 #String_theory #physics #science #universe

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👁Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local
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👣When someone asks you where you're from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of \"multi-local\" people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the city they live now and maybe another place or two. \"How can I come from a country?\" she asks. \"How can a human being come from a concept?\"

#TEDGlobal_2014 #culture #humanity #identity #self #world_cultures

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👁"Interpassion" "Ba$$in"
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👣Yelle and GrandMarnier bring their danceable electropop hits to the TED stage in an energizing performance of two songs, "Interpassion" and "Ba$$in"

#TED_Salon_Brightline_Initiative #live_music #music #performance #performance_art #dance #singer

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👁Why the \"wrong side of the tracks\" is usually the east side of cities
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👣What do communities on the social, economic and environmental margins have in common? For one thing, they tend to be on the east sides of cities. In this short talk about a surprising insight, anthropologist and venture capitalist Stephen DeBerry explains how both environmental and man-made factors have led to disparity by design in cities from East Palo Alto, California to East Jerusalem and beyond -- and suggests some elegant solutions to fix it.

#TED2018 #cities #community #culture #economics #anthropology #history #humanity #inequality #infrastructure #pollution #social_change #society #urban_planning

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👁Why the secret to success is setting the right goals
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👣Our leaders and institutions are failing us, but it's not always because they're bad or unethical, says venture capitalist John Doerr -- often, it's simply because they're leading us toward the wrong objectives. In this practical talk, Doerr shows us how we can get back on track with \"Objectives and Key Results,\" or OKRs -- a goal-setting system that's been employed by the likes of Google, Intel and Bono to set and execute on audacious goals. Learn more about how setting the right goals can mean the difference between success and failure -- and how we can use OKRs to hold our leaders and ourselves accountable.

#TED2018 #success #business #leadership #goal-setting #motivation #work #future #potential #collaboration #personal_growth

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