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  • The Nile Project

    TED Fellows
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Hello TED Friends.... I'm here in San Francisco, relishing a rather rare moment of hilltop gazing, getting ready to head out on tour tomorrow. Much time has passed since I've last written, but it's been a beautiful few months. And of course, there's lots to share.First - THE NILE PROJECT - This is my big new initiative. It is a multicultural musical platform that will bring together hip-hop, traditional and contemporary musicians living in the Nile countries (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt) to play and record music, to tour down the river and its source lakes…

  • New TED Book asks: can changing how we teach make our kids smarter, more creative?

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    Jim Daly
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:48 pm
    Ten years ago, educator Sugata Mitra and his colleagues cracked open a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed a networked PC, and left it there for the local children to freely explore. What they quickly saw in their ‘Hole in the Wall’ experiment was that kids from one of the most desperately poor areas of the world could, without instruction, quickly learn how the PC operated. The children also freely collaborated, exploring the world of high-tech online connectivity with ease. The experiment (which provided the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film Slumdog…

  • TED: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Women entrepreneurs, example not exception - Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (2011)

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:06 am
    Women aren’t micro--so why do they only get micro-loans? At TEDxWomen reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon argues that women running all types of firms-- from home businesses to major factories-- are the overlooked key to economic development.

  • TEDNews: Today's #TED: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's passionate call to see women entrepreneurs as examples, not the exception: http://t.co/scGnU5sj

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    27 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    TEDNews: Today's #TED: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's passionate call to see women entrepreneurs as examples, not the exception: http://t.co/scGnU5sj

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    27 Jan 2012 | 5:11 pm
    Pay it Forward is the Innovation of the Human Mindset and this is THE OFFICIAL website of the Worldwide Pay it Forward Movement.
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  • New TED Book asks: can changing how we teach make our kids smarter, more creative?

    Jim Daly
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:48 pm
    Ten years ago, educator Sugata Mitra and his colleagues cracked open a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed a networked PC, and left it there for the local children to freely explore. What they quickly saw in their ‘Hole in the Wall’ experiment was that kids from one of the most desperately poor areas of the world could, without instruction, quickly learn how the PC operated. The children also freely collaborated, exploring the world of high-tech online connectivity with ease. The experiment (which provided the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film Slumdog…

  • Extreme swimming with the world’s most dangerous jellyfish: Diana Nyad on TED.com

    Emily McManus
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:57 am
    In the 1970s, Diana Nyad set long-distance swim records that are still unbroken. Thirty years later, at 60, she attempted her longest swim yet, from Cuba to Florida. In this funny, powerful talk at TEDMED, she talks about how to prepare mentally to achieve an extreme dream, and asks: What will YOU do with your wild, precious life? (Recorded at TEDMED 2011, October 2011, in San Diego, California. Duration: 16:58) Watch Diana Nyad’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 1,000+ TEDTalks. Learn more…

  • Event innovations from TEDx events: We pick 5

    tedblogguest
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:11 pm
    TEDx events — powered by passionate volunteer hosts and committed audience members — are hotbeds of innovation, and we’re constantly looking to them for what’s next in event planning, audience participation and outreach. Each month, the TEDx team picks 10 great event ideas bubbling up from the TEDx community, highlighting them in a newsletter and on the TEDx Innovations page on the TEDx site. We’ve picked five of our January favorites below — see all 10 on the TEDx Innovations page, where you can also sign up for February’s newsletter. (And if you…

  • A primer on 3D printing: Lisa Harouni on TED.com

    Emily McManus
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things — including intricate objects once impossible to create. (Recorded at TEDSalon London, November 2011, in London, UK. Duration: 14:50) Watch Lisa Harouni’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 1,000+ TEDTalks.

  • Is there a real you? Julian Baggini on TED.com

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    22 Jan 2012 | 10:41 am
    What makes you, you? Is it how you think of yourself, how others think of you, or something else entirely? At TEDxYouth@Manchester, Julian Baggini draws from philosophy and neuroscience to give a surprising answer. (Recorded at TEDxYouth@Manchester, August 2011, in Miami Beach, Florida. Duration: 12:14) Watch Julian Baggini’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 1,000+ TEDTalks.
 
 
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  • The Nile Project

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Hello TED Friends.... I'm here in San Francisco, relishing a rather rare moment of hilltop gazing, getting ready to head out on tour tomorrow. Much time has passed since I've last written, but it's been a beautiful few months. And of course, there's lots to share.First - THE NILE PROJECT - This is my big new initiative. It is a multicultural musical platform that will bring together hip-hop, traditional and contemporary musicians living in the Nile countries (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt) to play and record music, to tour down the river and its source lakes…

  • Sri Lanka: The kingdom of giants

    24 Jan 2012 | 3:45 am
    Dear Fellows,Here is an article I wrote for a local magazine that is distributed free to all passengers coming in through our airport. It is an attempt to help my country promote 'responsible' tourism and create a conscience amongst those interested in partaking in whale watching tours. I hope you enjoy it and it inspires you to responsibly travel to my beautiful country soon :)Asha. Sri Lanka: The kingdom of giantsWhile the width of its fluke is the length of an average Sri Lankan fishing boat, it is with great respect that we maneouver through its territory knowing that a mere flick of the…

  • Udder genius: Fellows Friday with Su Kahumbu

    20 Jan 2012 | 10:06 am
    Agriculturalist and social entrepreneur Su Kahumbu created iCow, a mobile app that supports farmers caring for livestock. Soon it will become an information-delivery platform that could help generate a whole new crop of young farmers. What does iCow do? The iCow application essentially reminds small-scale dairy farmers in Kenya of important periods in gestation. This was information farmers previously had to acquire by contacting veterinary offices or artificial insemination providers. Now, via SMS, farmers register, inputting information about their livestock, and iCow pushes information and…

  • Taking a shower

    19 Jan 2012 | 7:21 am
    After I don't know how many months of inactivity, I am finally finding a moment to reconnect and share my thoughts.  The past few months can qualify as the most demanding and stressful times in both my professional and private life by far.  For over 10 years I have been designing, drafting, redesigning, redrafting what would be my dream house, including all the ideal spaces and gadgets I have ever through of, to showcase all strategies and technologies for a more sustainable living, and as my life and living patterns suffered changes, going from 1 kid to two and later to three, and…

  • What Mountaintop Are You Climbing? What Story Do You Have to Tell? (MLK DAY)

    16 Jan 2012 | 10:28 am
    [photo by Hans Gedda/Corbis in Mandela: The Authorized Portrait; edited by Kyra Gaunt-Palmer with picnik.com Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.    --  Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 WHAT MOUNTAINTOP ARE YOU CLIMBING? Today marks the 26th anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday. On the 25th anniversary I celebrated by releasing a book of racism op-eds highlighting structural inequalities that touched the lives of 27 students who participated in a racism course I taught in the…
 
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