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This week on TED.com September 26, 2015

Talk of the week Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school 17:03 minutes · Filmed May 2015 · Posted Sep 2015 · TEDWomen 2015 When the Taliban closed all the girls' schools in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi set up new schools, in secret, educating thousands of girls and boys. In this fierce, funny talk, she tells jaw-dropping stories about two times she was threatened to stop teaching -- and shares a vision for rebuilding education in her beloved country. Watch now »

Playlist of the week Talks from inspiring teachers A great teacher can change the trajectory of a student's life. These nine talks celebrate the power, passion and commitment of teaching. Watch » 9 TED Talks • Total run time 1:40:37

More TED Talks Scott Dinsmore quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful and meaningful. He shares what he learned in this deceptively simple talk about finding out what matters to you — and then getting started doing it. Watch » In a disturbing — but fascinating — walk through history, Frances Larson examines humanity's strange relationship with public executions … and specifically beheadings. As she shows us, they have always drawn a crowd, first in the public square and now on YouTube. What makes them horrific and compelling in equal measure? Watch » Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended -- and their human rights threatened -- by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice. Watch » When poet Robin Morgan found herself facing Parkinson’s disease, she distilled her experiences into these four quietly powerful poems — meditating on age, loss, and the simple power of noticing. Watch »

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Quote of the Week “ One day, with four trainers and one bodyguard, I was going up north of Kabul, and all of a sudden, I was stopped in the middle of the road by 19 young men. Rifles on their shoulders, they blocked the road. I asked my driver, 'What's going on?' He asked them. They said, 'We have nothing to do with you.' They called my name. They said, 'We want her.' " Sakena Yacoobi How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school

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SCREEN TIME (Part 2) In part two of the series "Screen Time," listen in as writer Jon Ronson, Philip Rosedale (the founder of Second Life), and more TED speakers explore our complex relationships with our screens. TED Radio Hour on iTunes »

 

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Falling in love is the easy part

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This week on TED.com September 19, 2015

Talk of the week Mandy Len Catron: Falling in love is the easy part 13:53 minutes · Filmed Aug 2015 · Posted Sep 2015 · TEDxChapmanU Did you know you can fall in love with anyone just by asking them 36 questions? Mandy Len Catron tried this fascinating psych experiment, it worked, and she wrote a viral article about it. But now, she asks: Was it real love? Will it last? And what’s the difference between falling in love and staying in love? Watch now »

Playlist of the week Why we do the things we do Ever wondered, why did I just do that? These fascinating talks explain the hidden reasons why we do what we do. Watch » 10 TED Talks • Total run time 3:18:08

More from TED.com The world is coming together to fight poverty -- and Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: with the skills, drive and initiative that poor people and families bring to the struggle every day. She asks us to look again at people in poverty, not as problems but as part of the solution. A powerful talk about people who are broke — but not broken. Watch » Michael Kimmel makes the surprising, funny -- and very practical -- case for treating men and women equally in the workplace and at home, starting right now. Equality is not a zero-sum game where men lose when women gain, he says; it's a win-win that will result in more opportunity and more happiness (and maybe even more sex) for everybody.  Watch » Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the US political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful ignorance. Journalist David Rothkopf lays out a few of the real, major issues that US leadership is failing to address -- from cybercrime to world-shaking new tech to the reality of modern total war -- and calls for a new vision that sets fear and ignorance aside. Watch » Scott Dinsmore quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful and meaningful. He shares what he learned in this deceptively simple talk about finding out what matters to you — and then getting started doing it. Watch »

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Quote of the Week “ The moment you admit to loving someone, you admit to having a lot to lose." Mandy Len Catron, Falling in love is the easy part

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SCREEN TIME (Part 1) Listen to the first episode of a two-part series: "Screen Time." Cyber anthropologist Amber Case, researcher Rana el Kaliouby, filmmaker Chris Milk and more TED speakers explore our complex new relationships with our screens. TED Radio Hour on iTunes »

 

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Andrew Blum: What is the Internet, really? | Video on TED.com TED Talks When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net. Continue Reading

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What really matters at the end of life

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This week on TED.com September 12, 2015

Talk of the week BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life 19:07 minutes · Filmed Mar 2015 · Posted Sep 2015 · TED2015 At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect, love. BJ Miller is a palliative care physician at Zen Hospice Project who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients. Take the time to savor this moving talk, which asks big questions about how we think on death and honor life. Watch now »

Playlist of the week Talks to remind you that life goes on Proof that it's possible to rebuild -- and get stronger -- after heartbreak. Watch » 7 TED Talks • Total run time 1:18:54

NEW TED Talks On October 24, 2014, Alan Eustace donned a custom-built, 235-pound spacesuit, attached himself to a weather balloon, and rose above 135,000 feet, from which point he dove to Earth, breaking both the sound barrier and previous records for high-altitude jumps. Hear his story of how -- and why. Watch » Tennis legend Billie Jean King isn't just a pioneer of women's tennis -- she's a pioneer for women getting paid. In this freewheeling conversation, she talks about identity, the role of sports in social justice and the famous Battle of the Sexes match against Bobby Riggs. Watch » Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he’s working to support the next generation of math teachers and scholars. TED’s Chris Anderson sits down with Simons to talk about his extraordinary life in numbers. Watch » What makes work satisfying? Apart from a paycheck, there are intangible values that, Barry Schwartz suggests, our current way of thinking about work simply ignores. It's time to stop thinking of workers as cogs on a wheel. Watch »

read more about ideas on ted.com Work: What's the most satisfying job in the world? You'd be surprised » How to find meaning and satisfaction, whatever your job Exploration: The strange hunt for life on Mars » It starts on top of a volcano in Chile ... Politics: In a raging debate, whose voice is too often missing? » How to be "pro-voice" on issues that matter to you

Quote of the Week “ I am asking that we make space -- physical, psychic room -- to allow life to play itself all the way out. So that rather than just getting out of the way, aging and dying can become a process of crescendo through to the end." BJ Miller What really matters at the end of life

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SCREEN TIME (Part 1) Listen to the first episode of a two-part series: "Screen Time." This episode features cyber anthropologist Amber Case, researcher Rana el Kaliouby, filmmaker Chris Milk and more TED speakers, exploring our complex new relationships with our screens. TED Radio Hour on iTunes »

 

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This week on TED.com September 5, 2015

Talk of the week How I fell from the stratosphere and lived to tell the tale 14:28 minutes · Filmed Mar 2015 · Posted Sep 2015 · TED2015 On October 21, 2014, Alan Eustace donned a custom-built, 500-pound spacesuit, attached himself to a weather balloon, and rose above 135,000 feet, from which point he dove to Earth, breaking both the sound barrier and previous records for high-altitude jumps. Hear his story of how -- and why. Watch now »

Playlist of the week 12 TED Talks that would make great college courses Space archeology ... the mathematics of history ... the lost art of real debate ... and more big ideas. Watch » 12 TED Talks • Total run time 2:49:46

More from TED.com Around the world, women still struggle for equality in basic matters like access to education, equal pay and the right to vote. But how to enlist everyone, men and women, as allies for change? Meet Elizabeth Nyamayaro, head of UN Women's HeForShe initiative, which has created more than 2.4 billion social media conversations about a more equal world. She invites us all to join in as allies in our shared humanity. Watch » There's a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet -- accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net. Watch » Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he's working to support the next generation of math teachers and scholars. TED's Chris Anderson sits down with Simons to talk about his extraordinary life in numbers. Watch » When and how did the universe begin? A global group of astronomers wants to answer that question by peering as far back in time as a large new telescope will let us see. Wendy Freedman headed the creation of the Giant Magellan Telescope, under construction in South America; at TEDGlobal in Rio, she shares a bold vision of the discoveries about our universe that the GMT could make possible. Watch »

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