TED Talk: How Ideas Trump Crises, Alex Tabarrok
Opening: Alex Tabarrok starts off by pointing to the negative effects of putting up walls. He points to physical walls like the Berlin Wall, to political walls like the Russian…
TED Talk: Why Brexit Happened, Alexander Betts
The Opening: Alexander Betts started his talk by an anecdote of his experience on the day after the Brexit vote. He realized that while he couldn't believe that his countrymen…
TED Talk: The real reason manufacturing jobs are disappearing, Augie Picado
Opening: Augie Picado opens with examples of countries that restrict the economic and political freedoms of its citizens. Those countries are Cuba and North Korea, self-determined isolationist, communist countries. Picado warns…
TED Talk: A Conservative Plea, Arthur Brooks
The Opening: Arthur Brooks starts off with an anecdote about his liberal background. He explains that his family has always been supportive in whatever he has chosen to do ...until…
TED Talk: Navigating Our Global Future, Ian Goldin
The Opening: Ian Goldin starts by saying that the smartest people of the last decade were completely off-base with their predictions for the future. He uses some images of those…
TED Talk: How Megacities are Changing the Map of the World, Parag Khanna
The Opening: Parag Khanna begins his inspiring talk by comparing the amount of infrastructure that we currently have that increases connectivity (i.e. telecommunications cables, roads, power grids) to the total…