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Have we made any progress since 2005? Bjorn Lomborg updates his classic TED Talk in a new talk at TED HQ

on Oct 2, 2013

Bjorn Lomborg gave a mind-blowing talk at TED2005 on making big decisions about our global priorities. In it, he asked the question: If you had $50 billion, enough to solve either climate change or AIDS — which would you pick? A redditor who discovered the video just last week commented: “Um… isn’t there any opinion […]

How technology is changing blindness: 6 talks on how those who can’t see can drive cars, take photographs and more

By Kate Torgovnick May

on Sep 11, 2013

[ted id=1818] When Ron McCallum was a child, he loved story time. But he was sad not to be able to read a book on his own. It was the 1940s, and McCallum was blind since birth. As his mom told him, “You can’t feel the pictures, and you can’t feel the print on the […]