{"id":653245,"date":"2013-04-18T17:07:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74891"},"modified":"2013-04-18T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T22:11:35","slug":"announcing-three-new-tedglobal-speakers-plus-more-whove-been-in-the-news-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653245","title":{"rendered":"Announcing three new TEDGlobal speakers, plus more who&rsquo;ve been in the news recently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-74898 alignleft\" style=\"margin:0 10px 10px 0;float:left;\" alt=\"New-TED-Global-speakers-smaller\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/new-ted-global-speakers-smaller.jpg?w=284&#038;h=204\" width=\"284\" height=\"204\" \/>Three fascinating speakers have been added to the lineup for <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/\">TEDGlobal 2013<\/a>, which kicks off in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 10 to 14.<\/p>\n<p>First, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who exploded the conversation about women\u2019s work-life balance with her July\/August 2012 <i>The Atlantic<\/i> article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/07\/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all\/309020\/\">Why Women Still Can\u2019t Have It All<\/a>,\u201d will join the conference to lend her expertise on policy and work. Slaughter, who&#8217;ll become president of the New America Foundation in September, will speak during session 1, \u201cThe Moment of Truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Heuzel will also take the TEDGlobal stage. Herculano-Heuzel created \u201cbrain soup\u201d in order to count the number of neurons in the human brain. She will speak during session 5, \u201cListening to Nature,\u201d as her latest work has her studying elephant and whale brains.<\/p>\n<p>The final new addition to the program: Andras Forgacs, the co-founder and CEO of Modern Meadow, a company which is \u201cbio-printing\u201d meat and leather. In other words: no animal will be killed in the making of the final consumer products.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/04\/02\/introducing-the-tedglobal-2013-speaker-lineup\/\">full lineup of speakers<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ted.com\/TEDGlobal2013\/program\/speakers.php\">read their detailed bios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 70+ presenters at TEDGlobal 2013 are an enthralling bunch. Here\u2019s a look at some of the other speakers who\u2019ve been in the news recently.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What, you ask, is an \u201cairborne ecologist?\u201d Last week, <i>T<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/babbage\/2013\/04\/animal-behaviour\"><i>he Economist<\/i> took a look at Gregory Asner\u2019s work<\/a> studying the hunting patterns of lions from a twin propeller plane. What is the benefit? The ability to make a 3D map of an area and chart animal movement through it &#8212; without having to catch animals in the act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Economist Dambiso Moyo, the author of <i>Dead Aid<\/i> who most recently turned her eye to China\u2019s race for resources<i>,<\/i> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austriancenter.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/worthy-winner\/\">named the winner of the 2013 Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award<\/a> this week. She follows in the footsteps of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/niall_ferguson_the_6_killer_apps_of_prosperity.html\">TEDGlobal 2011 speaker Niall Ferguson<\/a>, who also wrote the foreword to her most well-known book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Shereen El Feki\u2019s new book, <i>Sex and the Citadel<\/i>, was <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/04\/02\/introducing-the-tedglobal-2013-speaker-lineup\/\">reviewed last week by Janet Maslin of <i>The New York Times<\/i><\/a>. Maslin writes, \u201cThough she warns her readers that she is not writing an encyclopedia or staging a peep show, Ms. El Feki does ask an array of highly personal questions about present-day sexual relations in Muslim societies, with particular emphasis on Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/bd509112-9c55-11e2-9a4b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2QpXSWRmU\"><i>Financial Times<\/i> interviewed Michael Sandel<\/a> over a seafood lunch in a piece subtitled, \u201cThe Harvard philosopher and \u2018moral rock star\u2019 on Obama, education\u2019s new frontiers and the shortcomings of markets.\u201d In a great moment in the interview, Sandel shares why thousands of people attend his lectures: \u201cThere is an enormous hunger to engage in big questions that matter,\u201d he says.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On March 30, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/31\/technology\/web-privacy-and-how-consumers-let-down-their-guard.html?hpw&amp;_r=1&amp;\"><i>The New York Times<\/i> ran a story on behavioral economist Allessandro Acquisti<\/a>, who looks at the vast wealth of information we give away online without even realizing it. Thing to note: by posting a photo online, you actually give out clues to your social security number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cYou know when you have a bird, and it&#8217;s been in a cage all its life? When you open the cage door, it doesn&#8217;t want to leave. It was <i>that<\/i> moment.\u201d Women\u2019s rights activist Manal Al-Sharif quoted in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324077704578362160166544782.html\"><i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/a><i> <\/i>profile describing how she felt the first time she got behind the wheel of a car in Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Plutocrats <\/i>author Chrystia Freeland <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/chrystia-freeland\/2013\/04\/11\/the-sorrow-and-the-pity-of-obamas-budget\/\">wrote an op-ed for Reuters last week<\/a> called \u201cThe sorrow and the pity of Obama\u2019s budget.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reviewer Hari Kunzru of <i>The New York Times<\/i> mentions Lesley Hazleton\u2019s first TED Talk, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lesley_hazelton_on_reading_the_koran.html\">On reading the Koran<\/a>,\u201d in his review of her new book, a biography of Muhammad. He writes, \u201cHazleton approaches her subject with scrupulous respect \u2026 In 2010, she gave a TED talk debunking some of the more egregious myths about the Koran, notably the salaciously Orientalist \u201872 virgins.\u2019 This is a writer who is working to dispel contradictions, not sharpen them.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A study on whether false memories can curb a person\u2019s desire to drink alcohol by Elizabeth Loftus was <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2013\/04\/12\/false-memories-can-change-drinking\/\">featured on TIME.com<\/a> last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can\u2019t wait for these speakers to make us \u201cThink Again\u201d at TEDGlobal 2013.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74891\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74891\/\" \/><\/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=74891&#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\/lZtIFhFhxuE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three fascinating speakers have been added to the lineup for TEDGlobal 2013, which kicks off in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 10 to 14. First, Anne-Marie Slaughter, who exploded the conversation about women\u2019s work-life balance with her July\/August 2012 The Atlantic article, \u201cWhy Women Still Can\u2019t Have It All,\u201d will join the conference to lend her expertise [&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-653245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653245","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=653245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}