Wise advice for resolving racially stressful situations

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This week on TED.com February 24, 2018

Talk of the week Howard C. Stevenson: How to resolve racially stressful situations 17:34 minutes · Filmed Nov 2017 · Posted Feb 2018 · TEDMED 2017 If we hope to heal the racial tensions that threaten to tear the fabric of society apart, we're going to need new skills to talk about it. By teaching the ability to read, recast and resolve a racially tense situation, psychologist Howard C. Stevenson helps kids and parents learn to defuse threats. In this inspiring, quietly awesome talk, learn how to help young people build confidence and stand up for themselves in productive ways. Watch now »

Playlist of the week For those who want to break out of their shell Ready for a change? Let these talks help you move out of your comfort zone and embrace the beauty of sharing who you are with the world. Watch » 8 TED Talks • Total run time 1:31:30

Catch up on this week's new TED Talks Very few of us hold jobs that line up directly with our past experiences or what we studied in college. Take TED Resident Jason Shen; he studied biology but later became a product manager at a tech company. In this quick, insightful talk about human potential, Shen shares some new ideas on how job seekers can make themselves more attractive -- and why employers should look for ability over credentials. Watch » Driving in Johannesburg one day, Tapiwa Chiwewe noticed a cloud of air pollution hanging over the city. He really wanted to do something about it, but he's not an environmental expert -- he's an engineer. So he did some research, and figured out how his skills could actually make a big difference. Watch this inspiring talk about finding your own individual way to make the world a better place. Watch » Every three years, more than 30 million Hindu worshippers gather for the Kumbh Mela in India, the world's largest religious gathering, to wash away their sins. With massive crowds descending on small cities and towns, deadly stampedes are inevitable. In 2014, then 15-year-old Nilay Kulkarni put his skills as a self-taught programmer to use by building tech to help prevent these deadly human stampedes. Learn more about his invention -- and how it helped the 2015 Nashik Kumbh Mela have zero stampedes and casualties. Watch » From our fear of women's bodies to our sheepishness around the word "nipple," our ideas about sex need an upgrade, say sex educators (and hilarious women) Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi. In a radical new take on sex positivity, the duo take the TED stage to suggest we look to Africa for erotic wisdom both ancient and modern, showing us how we can shake off problematic ideas about sex we've internalized and re-define pleasure on our own terms. (This talk contains mature content.) Watch » The prevailing image of a refugee home is in a temporary camp in a desolate, isolated landscape -- but in reality, nearly 60 percent of refugees worldwide end up in cities. TED Fellow Robert Hakiza takes us inside the lives of urban refugees, and shows how his organization is teaching one group of refugees the skills they'll need to become self-sufficient and start rebuilding their lives. Watch » As a research scientist at Google, Margaret Mitchell helps develop computers that can communicate about what they see and understand. She tells a cautionary tale about the gaps, blind spots and biases we subconsciously encode into AI -- and asks us to consider what the technology we create today will mean for tomorrow. Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com Tech: This amazing robot swims like an eel and detects pollution » How a roboticist took design cues from nature's most efficient swimmers We humans: How to exercise when it's the last thing you want to do » Tips from psychology, behavioral economics & business to get you moving Business: How showing vulnerability helps build a stronger team » If you’d like to develop trust, the key is sharing your weaknesses

Quote of the Week “ The hiring systems we built in the 20th century are failing us -- and causing us to miss out on people with incredible potential. Let's stop equating experience with ability, credentials with competence. Let's stop settling for the safe, familiar choice and leave the door open for someone who could be amazing." Jason Shen Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience

ted radio hour: confronting stigma Why do we harshly judge certain behaviors or conditions, making it harder to talk honestly about them? In this hour, TED speakers Johann Hari, Nikki Webber Allen, Arik Hartmann and Juno Mac confront stigmas around addiction, depression, HIV and sex. Listen on Apple Podcasts or through the TED Android App.

coming soon: Worklife with adam grant Coming on February 28: a new podcast from TED called WorkLife with Adam Grant. We spend a quarter of our lives at work, but too little time thinking about how to make it better. Each week we'll take you inside unconventional workplaces to explore the ideas we can all use to make work more meaningful and creative. Check out the trailer now on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

 

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Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system

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This week on TED.com February 17, 2018

Talk of the week Bhu Srinivasan: Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system 06:10 minutes · Filmed Oct 2017 · Posted Feb 2018 · TEDNYC Bhu Srinivasan researches the intersection of capitalism and technological progress. Instead of thinking about capitalism as a firm, unchanging ideology, he suggests that we should think of it as an operating system -- one that needs upgrades to keep up with innovation, like the impending take-off of drone delivery services. Learn more about the past and future of the free market (and a potential coming identity crisis for the United States' version of capitalism) with this quick, forward-thinking talk. Watch now »

Playlist of the week Simple ways to spark your creativity Easy techniques to jumpstart innovative thinking and surface new ideas. Watch » 7 TED Talks • Total run time 1:20:38

This week's new TED Talks Dixon Chibanda is one of 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe -- for a population of more than 16 million. Realizing that his country would never be help everyone with mental health issues in traditional ways, Chibanda helped develop a beautiful solution powered by a limitless resource: grandmothers. In this extraordinary, inspirational talk, learn more about the "friendship bench," which trains grandmothers in evidence-based talk therapy and brings care, and hope, to those in need. Watch » The hymen is one of the most misunderstood parts of the female body. Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl share their mission to empower young people through better sex education, debunking the popular (and harmful) myths we're told about female virginity and the hymen. Watch » "To be African is to be inspired by culture and to be filled with undying hope for the future," says designer and TED Fellow Walé Oyéjidé. With his label Ikiré Jones (you'll see their work in Marvel's "Black Panther"), he uses classic design to showcase the elegance and grace of often-marginalized groups, in beautifully cut clothing that tells a story. Watch » We often find ourselves stuck in narrow social circles with similar people. What habits confine us, and how can we break them? Organizational psychologist Tanya Menon considers how we can be more intentional about expanding our social universes -- and how it can lead to new ideas and opportunities. Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com Culture: Why do we light firecrackers on Chinese New Year? The legends and traditions behind this joyous, noisy celebration Psychology: Let's agree to take emotional pain seriously ... because having your heart broken can be a debilitating as a physical injury Business: What's the worst kind of praise you can give? How to raise someone up without putting other people down

Quote of the Week “ One of the most reliable resources we have in Africa are grandmothers. Yes, grandmothers. Grandmothers are in every community. There are hundreds of them. And they don't leave their communities in search of greener pastures. So I thought, how about training grandmothers in evidence-based talk therapy, which they can deliver on a bench? Empower them with the skills to listen, to show empathy? Today, there are hundreds of grandmothers working in more than 70 communities. And in the last year alone, more than 30,000 people received treatment on the Friendship Bench from a grandmother in a community in Zimbabwe." Dixon Chabanda Why I train grandmothers to treat depression

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How to fix a broken heart

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This week on TED.com February 10, 2018

Talk of the week Guy Winch: How to fix a broken heart 12:25 minutes · Filmed Apr 2017 · Posted Feb 2018 · TED2017 At some point in our lives, almost every one of us will experience deep heartbreak. In this thoughtful talk based on years of practice, psychologist Guy Winch offers wise, practical advice on how to move on from this deep emotional pain. Our hearts might sometimes be broken, he says, but we don't have to break with them. Watch now »

Playlist of the week What's the secret to living longer? Some simple (and some sort-of-scary) ways we can potentially prolong human life. Watch » 8 TED Talks • Total run time 2:06:59

Catch up on this week's new TED Talks How deep down into the Earth can we go and still find living things? Marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd introduces us to the mysterious deep-subsurface microbes: tiny organisms that live meters deep in ocean mud and have been on Earth since way before animals. Learn more about these fascinating microbes, which refuse to grow in the lab and seem to have a fundamentally different relationship with time and energy than we do. Watch » Mohamad Jebara loves mathematics -- but he's concerned that too many students grow up thinking that this beautiful, rewarding subject is difficult and boring. So his company is experimenting with a bold idea: paying students for completing weekly math homework. He explores the ethics of this model and how it's helping students -- and why learning math is especially crucial right now. Watch » What's the antidote to rising nationalism, polarization and hate? In this inspiring, poetic talk, Valarie Kaur asks us to reclaim love as a revolutionary act. As she journeys from the birthing room to tragic sites of bloodshed, Kaur shows us how the choice to love can be a force for justice. Watch » Why is there always a long line for the women's bathroom? In this perspective-shifting talk, John Cary calls out the bad architecture that makes for bad living experiences. As he says: Architecture has a unique ability to dignify and make people feel respected -- but the flip side is also true. Watch »

Read more on ideas.ted.com Business: How can I rediscover my joy at work? Smart strategies from psychology and management experts that can help you reset your perspective and find balance We humans: Why it's okay to call out casual racism It might seem easier to let little remarks go by ... but little things add up. Wise words from Luvvie Ajayi Psychology: Is it lust or is it love? How you can tell ... and how you can have both at once in a long-term relationship

Quote of the Week “ Heartbreak creates such dramatic emotional pain, our mind tells us the cause must be equally dramatic. And that gut instinct is so powerful, it can make even the most reasonable and measured of us come up with mysteries and conspiracy theories where none exist. Heartbreak is far more insidious than we realize." Guy Winch How to fix a broken heart

TED Radio Hour: peering deeper into space The past few years have ushered in an explosion of new discoveries about our universe. This hour, TED speakers Allan Adams, Sara Seager, Natasha Hurley-Walker and Jedidah Isler explore the implications of these advances -- and the lingering mysteries of the cosmos. Listen on Apple Podcasts, through the TED App for Android, on NPR, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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