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How kids can change the world | Chau Anh Pham | TEDxDoan Thi Diem Hanoi Primary School
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:37
Environmental Concerns in Vietnam - Vietnam discards 8,000 tons of plastic daily, equivalent to discarding one elephant per minute [1] - Vietnam is among the top five countries contributing plastic to the sea [3] - Only 27% of plastic in Vietnam is recycled [4] - Each Vietnamese person uses approximately 41 kilograms of plastic annually [5] Environmental Impact and Solutions - Leaving trash on the ground can lead to ocean pollution [3] - Planting one tree can absorb 22 kg of carbon dioxide each year, offsetting pollution from driving a car for 100 kilometers [6] Call to Action for Children - Children can contribute to solving environmental problems by picking up trash, teaching others about recycling, using less plastic, and planting trees [2] - Every small action, like picking up one piece of trash, can prevent it from reaching the sea [3] - Refusing plastic bags and choosing paper over plastic can make the earth cleaner [6] - Saving the planet starts with individual actions and choices [10]
The Power of Words | Ngoc Han Dao | TEDxDoan Thi Diem Hanoi Primary School
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:37
[music] Hello everybody. My name is Dangan and I'm from class 5 Q4. Today I'm going to talk about the power of words.Once I was arguing with one of my friends. After a long time of arguing and bickering at each other, she lost her temper. She shouted at me, "I wish I was never your friend." And then I felt silent.After cooling down and explaining, our friendship continued to extend. But I never really quite forget how I nearly lost one of my friendship over a few simple words. It sounded silly, right.But if ...
Longevity, Aging & Ageless Strength | Dr. Preeti Singh | TEDxJIMS Kalkaji Women
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:36
So now first of all we're talking about longevity. We are talking about ageless strength. First of all tell me how many of you are excited every morning.How many. >> Every morning. >> Well that's good to hear but that's very few people who are excited.Well everybody should be excited every day for something or the other. And one of the reasons, one of the big things about longevity is excitement. Have you seen a mosquito.He has such a small life, such a short life. How do you hear it. What is that.Excitemen ...
How multilingual minds navigate identity | Tashi Tobden | TEDxChitkaraUniversityHP
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:36
Zambola. Namaste. Satrial.Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Now, I don't know about you, but me, I have forgotten the first words I've ever spoken. As a matter of fact, I don't even remember what language it was in.You see, my father, he is from Eastern Bhutan, the place where the sun rises, the place where everyone plants corn. and the place where they speak a dialect called Shah Chop. Meanwhile, my mother on the other hand, she is from the central areas.Her place I've never seen anyone farm, but I'm s ...
O futuro é ancestral | Karina Morais | TEDxJoaoPessoaSalon
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:36
Core Message - The speech emphasizes the urgency of anti-racism and the importance of recognizing and addressing systemic racism [1][4][12][13][15] - It highlights the need to acknowledge the vulnerability of Black bodies and challenge the statistics that reduce individuals to mere numbers [6] - The speaker advocates for a shift in perspective towards Africa, viewing it through a lens of abundance, technology, and community rather than scarcity and division [7][8][9] - The speech calls for collective action and the opening of opportunities for those who have been marginalized, emphasizing the importance of social justice [11][12] - It underscores the significance of celebrating Black individuals and recognizing their resilience in the face of adversity [14] Personal Narrative & Social Commentary - The speaker shares personal experiences of racial discrimination, including being mistaken as a pet caretaker instead of the owner [2] - The speech recounts an incident where a Black child was wrongly accused of searching for food in the trash, highlighting the pervasive nature of racial bias [3] - The speaker reflects on a journey of self-discovery and embracing her Black identity, including changing her hair and confronting inequalities [5] - The speech references the murder of a Senegalese man in São Paulo by Brazilians, questioning why such acts of violence continue to occur [9] Call to Action & Future Vision - The speech urges the audience to consider their role in shaping the future and to use their influence to create positive change [10][13] - It emphasizes that a future that is not anti-racist will always be marginalized, highlighting the systemic nature of racism [12] - The speaker encourages walking together, opening doors together, and acting in the present to create an anti-racist future [14][15]
Are We Building Tomorrow’s Classrooms Wrong? | Tarang Tripathi | TEDxDikshant School
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:36
[music] [music] So we're going to start off talking about something that I coined called the distance and the journey of learning. Before we get into it, let's just understand what AI is or more specifically what generative AI is. AI or generative AI can be understood as a sophisticated guessing machine.It's got a lot of data and every single time you ask a question it's pulling on all of that data using mathematical like equation like regression to try to figure out what the next word is. So in a way it's ...
Go With the Flow, But Go All In | Rahul Kulshreshtha | TEDxDikshant School
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:36
I'm going to share my life trajectory from school onwards because it's um full of ups and downs for various reasons. And for that let me tell you my background. My father was in the Navy. My mother was a uh housewife.My elder brother in 1975 joined the merchant navy and so did my father after the navy went into the merchant navy and in 1975 I was sent off to the Cindy school in Valia so I was a border but my parents most of the time used to be on the ship so I had to go back to Patna with my grandmother and ...
Strawberries | Erin Lunsford | TEDxRVA Youth
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:34
I'm excited to share this next song with you. Um, I wrote this one a year and a half ago after I saw a news story about immigrants and how we need to be concerned with immigrants taking resources. And I was so struck by how stuck Americans are in the scarcity mindset.We're so worried about getting what's mine and taking what's mine and protecting what's mine instead of sharing what is ours with each other. Um, so I wrote this song, Strawberries, about the proverbial garden where we care for each other. Ever ...
Authenticity isn’t enough. We need freedom in actor training. | Hope Ward | TEDxRVA Youth
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:34
Hi, my name is Dr. . Hope Ruffen Ward and I am an actor, director, and playwright. I have been studying theater and music for as long as I have memory.And that memory is filled with anxiety, echoes of not belonging, and a remembrance of a faculty and a curriculum that asked me to change myself beyond the characters that I was playing. There are three main principles in actor training curriculum. Character analysis, speech and dialect, and voice for the actor.Character analysis teaches actors how to analyze ...
How to Pay Off Sleep Debt from a Sleep-Deprived Teenager | Aarya Karmarkar | TEDxRVA Youth
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-04 17:34
I can guarantee that at least 30% of you in this room are in crippling debt, especially the students. See, I'm not talking about monetary dues, but a deficit and something more accessible and perhaps more crucial. Sleep.Sleep debt is an idea that reflects the amount of sleep loss over the amount you need and accumulates over time. The term was first coined in 1963 by physiologist Nathaniel Cleman who proposed that sleep tech can be liquidated by increasing the time of recovery sleep. Yet, how accurate is th ...