Tennis legend Billie Jean King isn’t just a pioneer of women’s tennis, she’s a pioneer for women getting paid. In this freewheeling Ted Talk, she talks about identity, the role of sports in social justice and the famous Battle of the Sexes match against Bobby Riggs.
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My daughter, Malala
“Why is my daughter so strong? Because I didn’t clip her wings.” Ziauddin Yousafzai reminds the world of a simple truth: Women and men deserve equal opportunities for education, autonomy, an independent identity.
The anti-CEO playbook
Profit, money, shareholders: these are some of the priorities of most companies today. But at what cost? In an appeal to corporate leaders worldwide, Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya calls for an end to the business playbook of the past and shares his vision for a new, “anti-CEO playbook” that prioritises people over profits. “This is the difference between profit and true wealth,” he says.
Three anti-social skills to improve your writing
You need social skills to have a conversation in real life but they’re quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few “anti-social skills,” like eavesdropping and muttering to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story in this animated Ted Ed lesson. Click to watch.
A forgotten space-aged technology could change how we grow food.
We’re heading for a world population of 10 billion people but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson has rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be a key to reinventing how we grow food.