Climate change is fast becoming one of the biggest risks that businesses must manage, and financial services play a crucial role in understanding and providi...
Some argue that women choose not to go into particular jobs, often because of the hours required and the sacrifices...
Some argue that women choose not to go into particular jobs, often because of the hours required and the sacrifices that need to be made. But what is really ...
Agriculture is feeding the world’s 7.3 billion people but at an unbearable social and environmental cost. Clayton...
Agriculture is feeding the world’s 7.3 billion people but at an unbearable social and environmental cost. Clayton Campanhola, Director of the FAO Plant Produ...
The importance of evaluating the full impacts of development on poverty and low income communities. Marc is a...
The importance of evaluating the full impacts of development on poverty and low income communities. Marc is a professor of law at Savannah Law School and stu...
In this lighthearted talk Dominic Walliman gives us four guiding principles for easy science communication and...
In this lighthearted talk Dominic Walliman gives us four guiding principles for easy science communication and unravels the myth that quantum physics is diff...
Tamara Afifi is a Professor in the Department of Communication at UCSB. Most of her research focuses on how family...
Tamara Afifi is a Professor in the Department of Communication at UCSB. Most of her research focuses on how family members cope communicatively with various ...
In his talk, Prof. Patrick Walsh discusses the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda as an agenda of the people,...
In his talk, Prof. Patrick Walsh discusses the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda as an agenda of the people, with the responsibility for implementation by the people, using their influence on Livelihoods, Civil Society, and Governance, to induce successful stakeholder partnership at local, national, regional and global levels. Patrick Paul Walsh is a Professor of International Development Studies in UCD, Ireland. He was a Senior Adviser to the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York during its input to the post 2015 Development Agenda, formally mandated by the UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon. He also represented the UN Major Group for Science and Technology during the Inter-Governmental Negotiations that produced the UN 2030 Agenda Outcome Document in September 2015.
Few would dispute that illicit drug use and abuse is one of the most prominent and perplexing issues facing our...
Few would dispute that illicit drug use and abuse is one of the most prominent and perplexing issues facing our society. For nearly a century, the United Sta...
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/clay-shirky-how-social-media-can-make-history While news from Iran...
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/clay-shirky-how-social-media-can-make-history While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Fa...
Netra Unni Rajesh built her first real science lab in her parents' basement when she was just 14. She went on to...
Netra Unni Rajesh built her first real science lab in her parents' basement when she was just 14. She went on to study and perform research at the University of Toronto, MIT and CalTech. Now she shares her ideas about how to inspire our youth to pursue STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.