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Hans Hosling: Religiões e Bebês

Hans Rosling tinha uma pergunta: Algumas religiões têm uma taxa de nascimento mais alta que outras - e como isso afeta o crescimento global da população? Falando no TEDxSummit, em Doha, Qatar, ele transforma dados em gráficos, através do tempo e das religiões. Com seu humor característico e discernimento agudo, Hans chega a uma surpreendente conclusão sobre as taxas mundiais de fertilidade.

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🌟SUNDAY!☀ My takeaway from #TEDx experience: The best moments of life are about Creating, Learning and Having Fun with like-minded people. Thank you so much for all these years! Самые лучшие моменты жизни - это когда мы творим, учимся и веселимся вместе с близкими по духу людьми. С огромной благодарностью за все эти годы! От этого получаешь одну удивительную штуку - горят искорки в глазах! “Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.” ~ Tim Ferris #latergram Это яркий момент с первого #TEDxSummit #Doha #Qatar #skyline #adventure (at Doha city Qatar)

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This week, the TED Blog released the exclusive video of TEDxBaghdad organizer Yahay Alabdeli's speech at TEDxSummit, "Why I organized a TEDx in Baghdad." Yahay, an Iraqi refugee, returned to his country for the first time in 34 years to organize a TEDx event in Baghdad. At TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, Yahay told his story.

Inspired by an Arabic poem he heard at a TEDx event in Rotterdam, Alabdeli said, “after 34 years of looking for identity, looking for home, this poem gave me all the answers I had been looking for."

In his heart, Iraq had always been home, yet the country he saw in the media portrayed a home he could no longer recognize. “Baghdad: a city of killing and bombing? No! This is not my Baghdad,” an emotional Alabdeli protested, “My Baghdad was once a center of Arab learning, a city of peace (Madinat-as-Salam)." That realization spurred Alabdeli to organize the first TEDx event in Baghdad, which he themed, "Making the impossible possible."

Organizing a TEDx in a European city is more like a conference, Alabdeli explained, but in places like Ramallah, Tripoli, Baghdad—it is more like a dream. “People leave inspired, they laugh and they cry, lives are transformed.”

In the end, more than 650 people attended TEDxBaghdad, including the Prime Minister of Iraq, and Alabdeli found what he had been searching for—a community full of hopes and dreams, and a real will to rebuild Iraq.

“We have shown the world that we are still alive,” he finished, as the audience rose to their feet in a standing ovation for the inspiration, determy's snation, and passion of one extraordinary individual, living proof of TED’s premise that ideas can indeed change the world.“ TEDxBaghdad's second event just took place on the 22nd of October, soon after their City 2.0 event. Pictures from the event can be found here, and previously on the TEDx blog, a diary from a TEDxBaghdad team member.

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I never expected to travel to this part of the world. I never expected to become so involved in the TEDx community. I never expected to have this life. And I am old enough, and not wise--but wise just enough--to appreciate the gifts, fully. The world got a little smaller for me this past two weeks. And I am forever changed by the people and places I experienced. Peace within us translates in every language to peace among us.

Teri Orr, TEDxParkCity organizer, on attending TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar

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A picnic with TEDxers outside the Muslim Museum of Modern Art. Doha, Qatar.

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Notes from TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar. Thinking about how the availability of paper has impacted our ability to jot down scratch ideas and even to think more freely (or at least less expensively).