"If I should have a child, instead of Mom, she's gon na call me Point B …" began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her transformation– from a wide-eyed teenager taking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher linking kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E.– and offers two breathtaking efficiencies of "B" and "Hiroshima.".
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Included speakers have actually consisted of Al Gore on environment modification, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Costs Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Intuition" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED means Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics along with science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a range of languages are now offered on TED.com, at.
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