{"id":644773,"date":"2013-03-01T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=69788"},"modified":"2013-02-27T10:11:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:11:43","slug":"who-are-we-the-speakers-in-session-11-of-ted2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644773","title":{"rendered":"Who Are We?: The speakers in Session 11 of TED2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71111\" alt=\"Session11_WhoAreWe\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/session11_whoarewe.jpg?w=900\"   \/>The name says it all: this session \u00a0takes a look at everything that human beings do, think and know. From thoughts on what makes a civilization decline to the roots of our morality, these speakers share some of the stats and stories that point to our collective identity.<\/p>\n<p>In this session:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TED2013\/program\/speakers.php#295\"> Jared Diamond<\/a>\u00a0investigates why cultures prosper or decline. In his latest book, he suggests that technological civilization is only a fraction of the human narrative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TED2013\/program\/speakers.php#1504\">Jim Flynn<\/a>\u00a0challenges our fundamental assumptions about intelligence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TED2013\/program\/speakers.php#1501\">Daniel Reisel<\/a>\u00a0searches for the psychological and physical roots of human morality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Pulling from psychology, evolutionary theory, history and more, <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TED2013\/program\/speakers.php#1477\">Daniel Ogilvie<\/a> is trying to understand humankind\u2019s deep-seated belief in the soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TED2013\/program\/speakers.php#1469\">Joshua Prager<\/a>\u2019s journalism unravels historical secrets &#8212; including his own.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69788\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69788\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=69788&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/WVSxMBQpPEU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name says it all: this session \u00a0takes a look at everything that human beings do, think and know. From thoughts on what makes a civilization decline to the roots of our morality, these speakers share some of the stats and stories that point to our collective identity. In this session: Jared Diamond\u00a0investigates why cultures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}