- -: TEDxUNC - Victoria Hale - The Nonprofit Pharmaceutical Sector
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The social innovator and founder of a nonprofit pharmaceutical company talks about her efforts to create bring low-cost medicine to women and children around the world. Hale talks about breaking down financial and business barriers to achieving nonprofit success. In the spirit of ideas worth spr...
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- -: TEDxUNC - Shamila Kohestani - How Sports Impact the Lives of Women
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The captain of the first women's Afghan national soccer team and recipient of the 2006 Arthur Ashe Courage Award talks about growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan and the challenges facing women and girls in that environment. Kohestani discusses how playing soccer gave her confidence and co...
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- -: TEDxUNC - Tariq Luthun - Spoken Word Performance
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Luthun gives a spoken word performance on the meanings of freedom and self-expression in society. "My tongue is manifest destiny," he says. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TE...
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- -: TEDxUNC - Joe DeSimone - Diversity as a Fundamental Tenet of Innovation
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The chemical engineer and recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize discusses the ways in which diversity in a team enhances its ability to problem-solve and create successful innovation. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring peo...
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- -: TEDxUNC - Dan Ariely - The Unexpected Joys and Problems with Creation
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)The Duke University professor of psychology and economics and New York Times bestselling author talks about what motivates people to take action and perform the unpleasant tasks in life. Ariely connects psychological motivations to solving problems in both everyday life and global health. In the...
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- -: TEDxUNC - Greg Van Kirk - Social Entrepreneurship: You are the Relative Expert
February 23, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Senior Ashoka Fellow talks about successful social innovation in the context of his efforts to found the MicroConsignment model -- a sustainable, replicable means of delivering health-related goods and services to remote villages using entrepreneurship and local empowerment. In the spirit of ide...
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- -: TEDxOU - Kyle Harper - The Science Of Deep History : The Case Of Monogamy
February 23, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Kyle Harper's intellectual pursuits are wide-ranging, from the history of slavery in the ancient world to the development of Christian notions of marriage and family and how law and justice in Greece and Rome continue to shape western legal systems today. Through his studies and research, one tru...
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- -: TEDxOU - Beatrice Williamson - One Person's Generosity & The Power of Education
February 21, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Beatrice Williamson is a distinguished leader known for her warmth, humor and commitment to learning. She was born in Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya. From the age of nine years old until her second year of college, Beatrice received a scholarship for education from Swedish missionary Ann...
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- -: TEDxFargo_Carl Peterson_The Challenge of Feeding a Growing Population
February 22, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Carl is passionate about the challenge of feeding the world's growing population. He is focused on bringing higher yielding corn and soybean traits and genetics to growers in the upper Midwest. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring p...
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- -: TEDxUHowest - Geert Hofman - The future of emergent collectives: from ideas to projects.
February 20, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Geert Hofman is a lecturer at Howest, University College of West-Flanders, the host of this TEDx. He is a philosopher by education, a computer scientist by profession. He was the project lead of an exploratory research project into the different aspects and possibilities of emergent collectives. ...
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