A girl who demanded school – Kakenya Ntaiya
Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: She would undergo the traditional Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he wo...
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Biofuels and bioprospecting for beginners – Craig A. Kohn
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/biofuels-and-bioprospecting-for-beginners-craig-a-kohn Biofuels can provide energy witho...
Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals – David Anderson
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/your-brain-is-more-than-a-bag-of-chemicals-david-anderson Modern psychiatric drugs treat...
Weaving narratives in museum galleries – Thomas P. Campbell
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/weaving-narratives-in-museum-galleries-thomas-p-campbell As the director of the Metropol...
Print your own medicine – Lee Cronin
Chemist Lee Cronin is working on a 3D printer that, instead of objects, is able to print molecules. An exciting potential long-term...
Averting the climate crisis – Al Gore
With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate...
Embrace the remix – Kirby Ferguson
Nothing is original, says Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix. From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, he says our most celebrate...
Can democracy exist without trust? – Ivan Krastev
Five great revolutions have shaped political culture over the past 50 years, says theorist Ivan Krastev. He shows how each step forw...
Mysteries of vernacular: Earwig – Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mysteries-of-vernacular-earwig-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel An earwig is neither an ea...
How giant sea creatures eat tiny sea creatures – Kelly Benoit-Bird
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-giant-sea-creatures-eat-tiny-sea-creatures-kelly-benoit-bird It’s a paradox of...