TED Talks
TED: A socialist perspective on the pursuit of happiness | Aaron Bastani
Several crises are set to define the next century -- but journalist Aaron Bastani believes we have the technological ability to meet our biggest challenges and create unprecedented levels of prosperity for all. He shows how we could get...
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TED: How to design climate-resilient buildings | Alyssa-Amor Gibbons
Architecture can't ignore the realities of climate change. For time-tested solutions that perform under extreme conditions, designer Alyssa-Amor Gibbons says we should look to traditional buildings. Taking us to her home of Barbados,...
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Surfer girls make waves and defy expectations in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh's only beach town, there are just a handful of girls who ride the waves. In fact, most people there frown upon seeing girl surfers, who have faced threats from conservative Muslims in the neighborhood. But surfing makes...
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A mentoring program that aims to keep Latino males in school
On college campuses, Latino males are perhaps the most underrepresented group. These men are often expected to provide for their families, which can mean a choice between getting an education and getting a job. Hari Sreenivasan reports...
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Inequities In Care, Misinformation Fuel Covid Deaths Among Poor, Indigenous Brazilians
All across Brazil, slums — known as Favelas — have long been places of
crime and poverty, marked by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. They
are among the hardest hit by the pandemic, in a country where the death
toll just passed...
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Tornado-stricken Joplin now thrives, but emotional scars linger
The tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, in May 2011 was one of the most destructive in U.S. history. Five years later, the city seems to be thriving -- possibly even better off than it was before. One key to its success? Getting...
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Irresistible to tourists, has Venice become unwelcoming to its inhabitants?
Venice has long been a city of trade and travelers, but Venetians now feel tourism is squeezing them out. The city is currently losing about 1,000 residents every year as the cost of housing rises and mass tourism poses a threat to food,...
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Landscape photographer races to finish decades of work
Oregon photographer Christopher Burkett is best known for producing large-format film prints of American landscapes, some of the highest resolution color photographs ever created without computer technology. But he only has a limited...
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How this artist fantasyland became a New Mexico moneymaker
Can an immersive, mystery funhouse help revive a state like New Mexico? Economics correspondent Paul Solman visits Meow Wolf, a Santa Fe hippie artist collective turned business that convinced the "Game of Thrones" author to buy and...
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Fighting for fresh water amid climate change in the Marshall Is. (WEEKEND)
President Donald Trump has said he is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, rejecting that wealthier nations, which have the biggest carbon footprints, should help poorer nations vulnerable to climate changes. One such...
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Hurricane Harvey's undocumented immigrants
For Houston's undocumented immigrant community, some 600,000 people,
Hurricane Harvey has turned anxiety about immigration raids and
deportations into a visceral fear to seek shelter. In addition, many who
have been impacted by the...
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Why this 13-year-old Rohingya refugee faces intense pressure to marry
Child marriage is common among the Rohingya, but for those who have fled terror in Myanmar, insecurity and poverty is pushing many families to marry off their daughters even earlier. Special correspondent Tania Rashid and videographer...
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Take a 360 tour of President Lincoln's summer retreat
Like many presidents before him, President Donald Trump spent part of the summer away from the White House, taking a 17-day Òworking vacationÓ at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. President Abraham Lincoln could relate. To get...
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Author Sarah Broom On ‘The Yellow House’ And Putting New Orleans East On The Map
Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Award for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother and how an obsession with houses passed down two generations to the author herself, why...
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Gloria Whelan, Winner of a National Book Award for Young People's Literature for 'Homeless Bird' (Nov. 23, 2000)
Gloria Whelan, winner of a National Book Award for young people's literature for "Homeless Bird" (Nov. 23, 2000) (Author Interview)
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Shutdown Of U.S.-Mexico Border Leaves Migrants In Limbo And In Danger
President Trump recently announced strict new border controls, citing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Officials will now turn away most migrants entering the country from the U.S.-Mexico border -- including people coming legally...
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How faculty mentors can help first-generation students succeed
A new initiative by the University of California system uses first-generation faculty to guide first-generation students, with the goal of decreasing dropout rates. As part of our series Rethinking College, Hari Sreenivasan visits UCLA...
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How migrants and refugees are being welcomed in tiny Italian village
Starting tomorrow, the European Union plans to start sending back some of the 170,000 migrants and refugees who have made the dangerous journey by sea to Europe this year. Along another main migrant sea route from North Africa toward...
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Edward Ball - 'Slaves in the Family' (Nov. 24, 1998)
The 1998 National Book Award winner in the nonfiction category was Edward Ball for his book, "Slaves in the Family". It's about the lives of his slave-owning ancestors on their rice plantations near Charleston, South Carolina. The book...
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Targeted Assassinations Against Civil Society Create A Climate Of Fear In Afghanistan
Afghanistan has suffered immeasurable loss for years on battlefields and in
bombings, but a recent campaign of assassinations has shocked the country.
Kabul's middle class neighborhoods are stalked and targeted by killers,
picking off a...
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What 1 euro can buy you in Sicilian real estate
In Sicily and across Italy, towns are on the brink of extinction. Locals have been leaving these picturesque communities, with their antique buildings and narrow roads, in search of economic opportunity, and few babies are being born...
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Murder, extortion and corruption in Acapulco
2017 marked Acapulco's fifth straight year of being Mexico's most murderous
city. Once an internationally renowned tropical paradise, violence has shot
up over the last decade. But while police and military forces protect
tourists,...
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Michael Beschloss (2007 Author Interview)
Book:Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989