{"id":651155,"date":"2013-04-08T10:53:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74454"},"modified":"2013-04-08T15:41:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:41:45","slug":"remembering-margaret-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651155","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Margaret Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74467\" alt=\"Margaret-Thatcher-redo\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/margaret-thatcher-redo.jpg?w=900\"   \/><br \/>\nMargaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, passed away today after suffering from a stroke. The longest-serving Prime Minister of the 20th century, Thatcher also holds the distinction of being the only woman to hold the post. She has died at 87-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>Below, some TED Talks that examine Thatcher&#8217;s legacy &#8212; in politics, social policy, even science funding.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/david_cameron.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/150040_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"David Cameron: The next age of government\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>David Cameron: The next age of government<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/david_cameron.html\"><b>David Cameron: The next age of government<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cWe have lost a great leader, a great prime minister and a great Briton,&#8221; current Prime Minister David Cameron <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/08\/david-cameron-reacts-margaret-thatcher-death_n_3036362.html\">said of Thatcher today<\/a>, upon returning to the UK from a European tour to pay tribute to the so-called \u201cIron Lady.\u201d In this talk given at TED2010, Cameron shares his thoughts on how governments will need to adapt as global power dynamics shift toward individuals.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lemn_sissay_a_child_of_the_state.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/a1efde288361d19cbbcf61057f03f56baa6c2e3d_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Lemn Sissay: A child of the state\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Lemn Sissay: A child of the state<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lemn_sissay_a_child_of_the_state.html\"><b>Lemn Sissay: A child of the state<\/b><\/a><br \/>\nIn this talk from TEDxHousesofParliament, British poet and playwright Lemn Sissay talks about growing up as a \u201cward of the state,\u201d without parents to care for him. As he says, \u201cMargaret Thatcher was my mother.\u201d A moving talk about why so many people who grew up this way feel the need to hide their pasts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/elizabeth_pisani_sex_drugs_and_hiv_let_s_get_rational_1.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/161751_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV -- let&#039;s get rational\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV &#8212; let&#039;s get rational<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/elizabeth_pisani_sex_drugs_and_hiv_let_s_get_rational_1.html\"><b>Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV \u2013 let\u2019s get rational<\/b><\/a><br \/>\nAt TED2010, public health expert Elizabeth Pisani shares a counter-intuitive policy that Margaret Thatcher was the first to put into practice \u2013 the creation of a national needle exchange program for intravenous drug users to prevent the transmission of HIV.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/gordon_brown_on_global_ethic_vs_national_interest.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/133361_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/gordon_brown_on_global_ethic_vs_national_interest.html\"><b>Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest<\/b> <\/a><br \/>\nGordon Brown, Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/1562097\/Gordon-Brown-admires-Margaret-Thatcher.html\">revealed himself to be a great admirer of Thatcher<\/a> because she was a \u201cconviction politician.\u201d In this Q&amp;A that followed Brown\u2019s talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/gordon_brown.html\">wiring the web for global good<\/a> at TEDGlobal 209, TED Curator Chris Anderson asks Brown how he balances the needs of his own citizens with the needs of the world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/40121_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Cox: CERN&#039;s supercollider\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Brian Cox: CERN&#039;s supercollider<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.html\">Brian Cox: CERN\u2019s supercollider<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAt TED2008, physicist Brian Cox shares a funny anecdote about getting funding for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN from Margaret Thatcher. Apparently, Thatcher said to him, \u201c If you guys can explain, in language a politician can understand \u2026 what this Higgs particle does \u2026 you can have the money.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74454\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74454\/\" \/><\/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=74454&#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\/-Zy8YqjiPek\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, passed away today after suffering from a stroke. The longest-serving Prime Minister of the 20th century, Thatcher also holds the distinction of being the only woman to hold the post. She has died at 87-years-old. Below, some TED Talks that examine Thatcher&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651155","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\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}