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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-does-i… About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escap

Waseda University Visiting Professor Yuichi Mori spent years developing medical technologies such as blood purification and oxygen enrichment using po

In 2008, lacquer artist and Living National Treasure Kazumi Murose began to focus on preserving intangibly important Japanese culture and heritage thr

This group represents The Fine Arts Center of Greenville County in South Carlina, USA. It is a magnet high school for the arts, drawing students from

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history… Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-l… At this very moment, people are lining up somewhere to scare themselves, be it with a t

Traditionally filial piety has preferred men over women and when Angie Lau was born as the first child, from the first son of a first son, her arrival

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-thi… On first glance, the painting “Las Meninas” (“The Maids of Honor”) might not seem terri

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-case-of… In the past decade, the US honeybee population has been decreasing at an alarming and u

Armed with just her cello and a small box of electronics, Zoe Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She records layer upon layer of celio, her feet dancin

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Chris Varney is an advocate for children’s rights. His advocacy began as a 16-year-old Youth Ambassador for World Vision during which he became

Bruce Huebner’s shakuhachi sound is unbounded by musical convention, flowing from freeform to jazz to Japanese traditional music to Celtic to Western

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-s-belo… It’s a well-known fact that the majority of an iceberg lies below the surface 

Michael Peng - Creative Strategist and Catalyst

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