Inge Missmahl is a Jungian analyst who’s worked in Afghanistan since 2004. She’s working on an important, but sometimes unexplored, aspect of reconstruction – recovery… Read More »TEDGlobal: Inge Missmahl and the talking cure in Afghanistan

Jamil Abu-Wardeh is a comedy impressario taking on a tricky task – bringing standup comedy to the Middle East. He tells us that humor is… Read More »TEDGlobal: The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour Kills

Lewis Pugh‘s job is tougher than yours. He swims in very, very cold water – three years ago, he swam across the North Pole. The… Read More »TEDGlobal: Lewis Pugh swims for the environment

Yale professor Laurie Santos tells us that homo sapiens are extremely smart and extremely vain. Despite the fact that we’re really smart, we can be… Read More »TEDGlobal: Laurie Santos, irrationality and our primate financial advisors

Columbia University psychologist and business professor Sheena Iyengar promises to take us around the world in her 18 TED minutes. She begins in Kyoto, Japan… Read More »TEDGlobal: Sheena Iyengar and the paradox of choice

I enjoy blogging conferences, and I especially enjoy blogging TED. And while I’m pretty good at conferenceblogging, blogging my own talk is beyond me. So… Read More »A wider world, a wider web: my TEDGlobal 2010 talk