When I was nine years old,
I went off to summer camp for the first time.
And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books,
which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do.
Because in my family
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When I was nine years old,
I went off to summer camp for the first time.
And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books,
which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do.
Because in my family
Translator: Fran Ontanaya Reviewer: Morton Bast
What I'm going to do is, I'm going to explain to you
an extreme green concept
that was developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center
in Cleveland, Ohio.
But
(Music)
Good afternoon.
As you're all aware, we face difficult economic times.
I come to you with a modest proposal
for easing the financial burden.
This idea came to me while talking to
a physicist f
For the past decade,
I've been studying non-state armed groups:
armed organizations like terrorists, insurgents or militias.
I document what these groups do when they're not shooting.
My goal is to be
Have you heard the news?
We're in a clean energy revolution.
And where I live in Berkeley, California,
it seems like every day I see a new roof with new solar panels going up,
electric car in the driv
Two hundred years of modern science.
We have to admit
that our performance is not great.
The machines we build continue to suffer from mechanical failures.
The houses we build do not survive severe ea
When you come to TEDx, you always think about technology,
the world changing, becoming more innovative.
You think about the driverless.
Everyone's talking about driverless cars these days,
and I love
It's easy to forget that last night,
one billion people went to sleep without access to electricity.
One billion people.
Two and a half billion people did not have access to clean cooking fuels
or cle
Translator: Camille Martínez
I'm a journalist,
and I'm an immigrant.
And these two conditions define me.
I was born in Mexico,
but I've spent more than half my life reporting in the United States,
a c
"Can you taste words?"
It was a question that caught me by surprise.
This summer, I was giving a talk at a literary festival,
and afterwards, as I was signing books,
a teenage girl came with her frien