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Soldiers who’ve lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.
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Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams brings tough love to the dream of world peace, with her razor-sharp take on what ‘peace’ really means, and a set of profound stories that zero in on the creative struggle and sacrifice of those who work for it.
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Nathaniel Kahn is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated maker of documentary films. His journey to understand his distant father, the legendary modern architect Louis Kahn became the film ‘My Architect’.
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What do you think of people in poverty? Maybe what Jessica Jackley once did: “they need our help” in the form of a few coins in a jar. The co-founder of Kiva.org talks about how her attitude changed and how her work with micro loans has brought new power to people who live on a […]
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Nine days before TED 2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate collecting. He looks back at a life that’s been wiped clean in an instant and looks forward.
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