👁Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech
🧠Sharon Weinberger
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣What is a weapon in the Information Age? From microscopic "smart dust" tracking devices to DNA-tracing tech and advanced facial recognition software, journalist Sharon Weinberger leads a hair-raising tour through the global, unregulated bazaar of privatized mass surveillance. To rein in this growing, multibillion-dollar marketplace that often caters to customers with nefarious intents, Weinberger believes the first step is for governments to classify surveillance tools as dangerous and powerful weapons.
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👁The city planting a million trees in two years
🧠Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, is on a mission to plant a million trees over the next two years, increasing vegetation in her city by fifty percent while shoring up eroding riverbanks and increasing biodiversity. "This isn't just about planting trees; it's about growing trees, and it's about ensuring that each one of us is part of the process," she says. "A million trees is our city's small contribution to increasing the much-needed global carbon sink."
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👁How to come out at work, about anything
🧠Micah Eames
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣When TED media communication associate Micah Eames came out as trans at work, he quickly realized he'd need to start having tricky conversations with coworkers. Here's his advice for how you can open up about your identity at work and what your colleagues can do to help.
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👁How reverse mentorship can help create better leaders
🧠Patrice Gordon
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Employee diversity and inclusive leadership are goals for most organizations today, but how do we get there? Try a "reverse mentorship" program, which sets up junior team members to guide senior staff. Here are 6 tips to make reverse mentorship work, from executive coach and personal development advocate Patrice Gordon.
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👁How COVID-19 human challenge trials work -- and why I volunteered
🧠Sophie Rose
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣In April 2020, epidemiologist-in-training Sophie Rose volunteered to be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. As a young, healthy adult, she's offering to take part in a human challenge trial, a study where participants are intentionally exposed to SARS-CoV-2 to test vaccines and gather critical data. Explaining how challenge trials could speed up the development of effective vaccines, Rose shares why volunteering was the right decision for her.
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👁Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus?
🧠Andrew Pelling
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Take a mind-blowing trip to the lab as TED Senior Fellow Andrew Pelling shares his research on how we could use fruits, vegetables and plants to regenerate damaged human tissues -- and develop a potentially groundbreaking way to repair complex spinal cord injuries with asparagus.
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👁How quinoa can help combat hunger and malnutrition
🧠Cedric Habiyaremye
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣On a mission to create a hunger-free world, agricultural entrepreneur Cedric Habiyaremye makes the case for cultivating quinoa -- and other versatile, nutrient-rich grains -- in places experiencing malnutrition, like his native Rwanda. He shares a model to help smallholder farmers across Africa diversify their fields with nutritious and indigenous crops, taking a step towards ensuring healthy foods are available and affordable for all.
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👁What it takes to crush a pandemic
🧠Johanna Benesty
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣An effective COVID-19 vaccine is just the first step in ending the pandemic, says global health strategist Johanna Benesty. In this illuminating talk, she explores the various barriers to "equitable access" -- making sure COVID-19 therapeutics are available to all -- and shares a creative approach to research and development that could ensure vaccines are rolled out fairly, efficiently and at a global scale.
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👁The mood-boosting power of crying
🧠Kathy Mendias
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Here's a talk about tears -- and why crying isn't something to be afraid or ashamed of. Exploring the science behind the mood-boosting power of crying, childbirth and lactation educator Kathy Mendias shows how tears can enhance your physical and mental well-being and deepen your relationship to yourself and others.
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👁A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life
🧠JayaShri Maathaa
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣As the coronavirus pandemic raged in her native Sri Lanka, monk JayaShri Maathaa had a thought: two magical words that planted something beautiful in her mind and blossomed into a whole new way of being. She shares how this mantra transformed her life -- and the surprising ways gratitude can invite bliss, joy and harmony between yourself and all that surrounds you.
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👁How working couples can best support each other
🧠Jennifer Petriglieri
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣It's possible to have a successful career AND a successful marriage. Professor and author Jennifer Petriglieri explains how you and your partner can make choices that work for your life together -- without sacrificing your individual aspirations.
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👁To save the climate, we have to reimagine capitalism
🧠Rebecca Henderson
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣"Business is screwed if we don't fix climate change," says economist Rebecca Henderson. In this bold talk, she describes how unchecked capitalism destabilizes the environment and harms human health -- and makes the case for companies to step up and help fix the climate crisis they're causing. Hear what a reimagined capitalism, in which companies pay for the climate damage they cause, could look like.
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👁How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body?
🧠Anees Bahji
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Steroids. They've caused global scandals. They're banned in most athletic competitions. Yet the same properties that help elite athletes and bodybuilders improve performance also make steroids valuable for treating many illnesses and injuries, such as AIDS and cancer. So if steroids are used as medicine, they must be safe to use recreationally, right? Anees Bahji explores the effects of steroids. [Directed by Cris Wiegandt, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁The energy Africa needs to develop -- and fight climate change
🧠Rose M. Mutiso
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣In this perspective-shifting talk, energy researcher Rose M. Mutiso makes the case for prioritizing Africa's needs with what's left of the world's carbon budget, to foster growth and equitably achieve a smaller global carbon footprint.
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👁How we can use the hiring process to bring out the best in people
🧠Gil Winch
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Traditional job interviews are stressful interrogations that can often exclude marginalized populations. Here's how psychologist and entrepreneur Gil Winch says we can rethink hiring, training and onboarding to allow people to show their true potential.
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👁Do larger animals take longer to pee?
🧠David L. Hu
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣A cat's bladder can only store a golf ball's worth of urine. For humans, it's a coffee mug and for elephants, a kitchen trash can. An elephant's bladder is 400 times the size of a cat's, but it doesn't take an elephant 400 times longer to pee. So, how does this work? David L. Hu digs into what scientists call the "Other Golden Rule." [Directed by Anton Bogaty, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott].
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👁Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it
🧠Sophie Howe
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Sophie Howe is the world's only future generations commissioner, a new kind of government official tasked with advocating for the interests of generations to come and holding public institutions accountable for delivering long-term change. She describes some of the people-focused policies she's helped implement in Wales, aimed at cutting carbon emissions, increasing sustainability and promoting well-being as a national goal.
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👁24 hours on Earth -- in one image
🧠Stephen Wilkes
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣"Nature reveals itself to us in unique ways, if we stop and look at the world through a window of time," says photographer Stephen Wilkes. Using a special photographic technique that reveals how a scene changes from day to night in a single image, Wilkes exposes the Earth's beautiful complexity and the impacts of climate change -- from the disruption of flamingo migrations in Africa to the threat of melting ice -- with unprecedented force.
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👁The dark history of bananas
🧠John Soluri
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣In December 1910, the exiled former leader Manuel Bonilla boarded a borrowed yacht and set sail for Honduras in hopes of reclaiming power by whatever means necessary. Bonilla had a powerful backer: the notorious organization known throughout Latin America as "El Pulpo." It was a U.S. corporation trafficking in, of all things, bananas. John Soluri investigates the United Fruit Company. [Directed by Sofia Pashaei, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by André Aires].
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👁Azerbaijan 🇦🇿: A Timeless Presence

🧠Sami Yusuf
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Azerbaijan: A Timeless Presence is a breathtaking musical odyssey through a rich artistic and cultural heritage. The music was composed, arranged, and directed by Sami Yusuf for the Opening Ceremony of the 43rd Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Baku on June 30, 2019. The performance was directed by the renowned creative director Andrei Boltenko.

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