Many NPR listeners are familiar with the TED Radio Hour, which features talks with innovators from across disciplines. This hour we'll talk to TED's national host, and the founder of TEDx Columbus, Cap City's local TED spinoff, about their upcoming conference. We'll also hear from two featured speakers who will share the latest ideas in …
I have always been a big fan of Donald Trump, mostly because I like determined business people but also because I love disruptors, especially confident ones. I would always prefer to speak to a person who has an opinion that is different to mine rather than no opinion at all. But Trump’s love of controversy …
This talk was presented at an official TED conference For the young and unemployed in the world's big cities, dreams of opportunity and wealth do come true but too often because they're heavily recruited by terrorist groups and other violent organizations. Human rights advocate Mohamed Ali draws on stories from his native Mogadishu to make …
Jane Otai, a 2013 New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute, says that it is good that the Kenyan government will now provide free maternity health care for all its citizens, however it is also imperative to ensure that free care equals quality care. The New York Times recently reported on the astonishingly high cost …
EDITORIAL By Salif Romano Niang Bamako — In Mali, the votes of the run-off have been cast. And in sharp contrast to elections in Africa or even Western democracies, the defeated candidate conceded not by press release or defiant speech but by visiting the winner in his living room, surrounded by their families. With the …