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Motivational Mondays:Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge

December 26th, 2011 | Author: Taviel Byrd

Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: “I can.” Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their parents.

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Motivational Mondays:William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind

December 19th, 2011 | Author: Taviel Byrd

At age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power his family’s home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks at TED, here, for the second time, shares in his own words the moving tale of invention that changed his life.

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Motivational Mondays:Jose Abreu on kids transformed by music

December 12th, 2011 | Author: Taviel Byrd

Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids’ lives in Venezuela. Here he shares his amazing story and unveils a TED Prize wish that could have a big impact in the US and beyond.

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Motivational Mondays:Allan Jones: A map of the brain

December 5th, 2011 | Author: Taviel Byrd

How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how it all connects up.

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Motivational Mondays:Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth — visualized

November 28th, 2011 | Author: Taviel Byrd

Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)

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Motivational Monday: Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs

November 21st, 2011 | Author: Taviel Byrd

Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from …) led her to look further, and to ask: Could we be transplanting cells, not whole organs? At the INK Conference, she talks through her new research, discovering healing cells in some surprising places.

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Hello world!

November 4th, 2011 | Author: Taviel Byrd

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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