Articles

• Why I choose humanism over faith | Leo Igwe

  
  29 mars, par contact@ted.com (TED) — TED
  As a humanist, Leo Igwe doesn't believe in divine intervention -- but he does believe in the power of human beings to alleviate suffering, cure disease, preserve the planet and turn situations of poverty into prosperity. In this bold talk, Igwe shares how humanism can free Africans from (...)

• The role of faith and belief in modern Africa | Ndidi Nwuneli

  
  29 mars, par contact@ted.com (TED) — TED
  Ndidi Nwuneli has advice for Africans who believe in God -- and Africans who don't. To the religious, she advises against using God to outsource responsibility for what happens in their lives. To the non-religious, she asks that they keep an open mind and work with faith-based organizations, (...)

• My descent into America’s neo-Nazi movement — and how I got out | Christian Picciolini

  
  28 mars, par contact@ted.com (TED) — TED
  At 14, Christian Picciolini went from naïve teenager to white supremacist -- and soon, the leader of the first neo-Nazi skinhead gang in the United States. How was he radicalized, and how did he ultimately get out of the movement? In this courageous talk, Picciolini shares the surprising and (...)

• Academic research is publicly funded — why isn’t it publicly available ? | Erica Stone

  
  28 mars, par contact@ted.com (TED) — TED
  In the US, your taxes fund academic research at public universities. Why then do you need to pay expensive, for-profit journals for the results of that research? Erica Stone advocates for a new, open-access relationship between the public and scholars, making the case that academics should (...)

• How fungi recognize (and infect) plants | Mennat El Ghalid

  
  27 mars, par contact@ted.com (TED) — TED
  Each year, the world loses enough food to feed half a billion people to fungi, the most destructive pathogens of plants. Mycologist and TED Fellow Mennat El Ghalid explains how a breakthrough in our understanding of the molecular signals fungi use to attack plants could disrupt this interaction (...)

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