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  2. List of TED speakers - Wikipedia

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    See also References External links A Speaker Talk(s) Wajahat Ali The case for having kids (TED2019) Trevor Aaronson How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists (TED2015) Chris Abani Telling stories from Africa (TEDGlobal 2007) On humanity (TED2008) Hawa Abdi Mother and daughter doctor-heroes (TEDWomen 2010) Marc Abrahams A science award that makes you laugh, then think ...

  3. TED (conference) - Wikipedia

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    Hosted by Jami Floyd, TED Talks NYC debuted on NYC Life on March 21, 2012. [72] As of October 2020, over 3500 TED talks had been posted, [19] and five to seven new talks are published each week. On TED.com, most talks and speakers are introduced, and talk transcripts are provided; some talks also have footnotes and resource lists.

  4. The Great Silence (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The structure of this short story is a fable told from the point of view of a Puerto Rican parrot, a critically endangered species endemic to Puerto Rico.It describes the country's Arecibo radio telescope and how, in 1974, the telescope was used to broadcast a radio message from humanity into deep space to demonstrate humanity's intelligence.

  5. Ship of Fools (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The short story was criticized by the Baltimore Sun for its "colorful ethnic language" and justification of revolutionary violence. [5] Tom LaPietra has said the parable is about Kaczynski's belief that "People who are leftist shouldn't waste their time with what he calls reform, such as equal wages and equal treatment for women...The main issue is we have to stop the industrial machine before ...

  6. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling - Wikipedia

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    "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" is a science fiction story by American writer Ted Chiang. It was first published in 2013 in Subterranean Press.. The story is written as an article by an unnamed journalist in the near future, who tells his experience with a device that endows its users with eidetic memory, interspersed with a fictionalized account of an incident in which writing was ...

  7. Exhalation: Stories - Wikipedia

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    This is Ted Chiang's second collection of short works, after the 2002 book Stories of Your Life and Others. Exhalation: Stories contains nine stories exploring such issues as humankind's place in the universe, the nature of humanity, bioethics, virtual reality, free will and determinism, time travel, and the uses of robotic forms of A.I. [1] Seven tales were initially published between 2005 ...

  8. The Best American Short Stories 2016 - Wikipedia

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    Story Where story previously appeared Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "Apollo" The New Yorker: Mohammed Naseehu Ali "Ravalushan" BOMB: Tahmima Anam "Garments" Freeman's: Andrea Barrett "Wonders of the Shore" Tin House: Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum "The Bears" Glimmer Train: Ted Chiang "The Great Silence" e-flux journal: Louise Erdrich "The Flower" The New ...

  9. Brené Brown: The Call to Courage - Wikipedia

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    After the Ted Talk, Brown felt embarrassed about the talk and was afraid of criticism. She shares with the audience some of the criticism and how she handled it. After the Ted Talk, Brown was watching Downton Abbey to distract her mind from critics and realized that Teddy Roosevelt was the US president at the time. She came across one of his ...