 Luvvie Ajayi isn't afraid to speak her mind, to be the one dissenting voice in a crowd -- and neither should you. "Your silence serves no one," says the writer, activist and self-proclaimed professional troublemaker. In this bright, uplifting talk, Ajayi shares three questions to ask yourself if you're teetering on the edge of speaking up or quieting down -- and encourages all of us to get a little more comfortable with being uncomfortable. Watch »  Fresh food free of chemicals and pesticides is hard to come by in China: in 2016, the Chinese government revealed half a million food safety violations in just nine months. Which is why TED Fellow Matilda Ho launched China's first online farmers market, with a zero-tolerance test toward pesticides, antibiotics and hormones in food. She shares how she's growing her healthy business from the ground up. Watch » |  Conventional wisdom says that to win an election, you need to play to your constituencies' lowest, most divisive instincts. But as a candidate for mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, G.T. Bynum decided to skip the smear campaigns, tell voters what he wanted to accomplish and give them ways to measure his success -- and he won the election. In a hopeful, funny talk, Bynum shares how he's tackling his city's most pressing issues and asks us all to set aside philosophical disagreements and focus on the aspirations that unite us. Watch »  Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer on a mission -- to reduce pollution in the fashion industry while creating amazing new things to wear. In her lab, she noticed that the bacteria Streptomyces coelicolor makes a striking red-purple pigment, and now she's using it to develop bold, color-fast fabric dye that cuts down on water waste and chemical runoff, compared with traditional dyes. We're not going to build the future with fossil fuels, Chieza says -- we're going to build it with biology. Watch » |  Educator and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun wants to use AI to free humanity of repetitive work and unleash our creativity. In an inspiring conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Thrun discusses the progress of deep learning, why we shouldn't fear runaway AI and how society will be better off if dull, tedious work is done with the help of machines. "Only 1 percent of interesting things have been invented yet," Thrun says. "I believe all of us are insanely creative." Watch »  How do you deliver things fast, in places with no roads? Well, Keller Rinaudo and his startup, Zipline, have created the world's first drone delivery system to operate at national scale, transporting blood and plasma to remote health clinics in East Africa with a fleet of electric autonomous aircraft. Find out how Rinaudo and his team are working to transform health care logistics throughout the world -- and inspiring the next generation of engineers along the way. Watch » | |
