Jan 17th, 2010
The vision of TED is “Ideas worth spreading”, so with disasters similar to the recent Haitian Earthquakes I thought I’d highlight and spread 15 talks presented at TED over the years that are of interest in disaster situations and useful in (somewhat) “disaster proofing” the developing world.
Oct 2nd, 2009
A 13 year old girl named Rekha in India has put her foot down on the shameful actions of her parents in trying to push her into an arranged marriage against her will because she wants an education.
Yet another idiot cleric who was given the chance to show how enlightened he is with respect to respect for women. Raping your wife? Can’t happen! Is she a bit out of line: slap her into line. Queue the standard responses from leaders.