Fight violence without violence: Scilla Elworthy
“How do we deal with extreme violence without using force in return?” Scilla Elworthy has spent nearly fifty years on this question and campaigning for nonviolent strategies of fighting heinous crimes. At TEDxExeter she shares practical, peaceful methods of battling brutality and overcoming oppression.
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Radicalism today: Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini argues that modern radicalism should not focus on obliterating the status quo, but on targeting modest, ad hoc reforms. In this keen and urgent talk from TEDxObserver, he explains how we can work within the confines of current government and economic models to bring about profoundly transformational changes to society.
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Shops burned, London rioted, I shouted: Pauline Pearce
When London fell into riots in 2010, Pauline Pearce’s voice rose above the rest — even if she didn’t mean for it to. In this charming and compelling interview at TEDxObserver, she tells the story of how a trek home led to her shouting a rebuke of current affairs in the middle of the street and how a surprise recording of that event changed her life.
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The greatest machine that never was: John Graham-Cumming
Computer science began in the 30’s — the 1830’s. At TEDxImperialCollege, John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage’s mechanical, steam-powered “analytical engine” and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers.
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