{"id":1875,"date":"2016-06-02T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2016-06-02T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:47:51","slug":"my-top-5-ted-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/culture\/my-top-5-ted-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top 5 TED Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Danger of a Single Story<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<br \/>\nWatch this TED talk and discover yourself as Chimamanda Adichie exposes your\u00a0biases against the world and reveals, how a single story can skew your world view. After watching this, I hope you&#8217;ll give\u00a0people a chance. A chance to show you, who they really are.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D9Ihs241zeg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Best Stats You&#8217;ve Ever Seen<\/a> by Hans Rosling<br \/>\nAs advanced data analytic tools become ubiquitous, as people\u00a0start learning statistical programming languages &#8211; it\u00a0will only enable more people to use data. Regardless of the protest behind &#8216;democratization of big data&#8217;, people will continue to work on making sense of data to seek a better understanding of the world they live in. And this is one of the many gems\u00a0generated through\u00a0free visualization tool developed by Hans Rosling&#8217;s own nonprofit Gapminder (software has now been bought by Google).\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hVimVzgtD6w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We should All be Feminists<\/a> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<br \/>\nThis is Chimamanda Adichie&#8217;s second video I am recommending. Since I&#8217;ve discovered her work &#8211; I have grown a\u00a0huge admiration for this lady. In this TED talk, Adichie beautifully puts everything that I ever wanted to say about being a feminist.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hg3umXU_qWc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J-KfKxCaDVA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educating a New Generation of African Leaders<\/a> by Patrick Awuah<br \/>\nThe reason this is one of my favorites is because I relate to the conditions of Ghana to an extent. West African countries like Ghana and Nigeria are in far better position than Nepal. I am definitely not comparing these countries, but our struggles are very similar. Year after year our political leaders make new promises. At the end, we are led nowhere. So, where does the solution lie, is something Patick Awuah tries to answer on this TED Talk. <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-KfKxCaDVA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jZxLsDkvkVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We are the Stories We Tell Ourselves<\/a> by Shekhar Kapur<br \/>\nWho am I?<br \/>\nA contradiction.<br \/>\nEverything&#8217;s a contradiction.<br \/>\nNeed I add more? <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZxLsDkvkVQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Danger of a Single Story\u00a0by\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Watch this TED talk and discover yourself as Chimamanda Adichie exposes your\u00a0biases against the world and reveals, how a single story can skew your world view. After watching this, I hope you&#8217;ll give\u00a0people a chance. A chance to show you, who they really are. The Best Stats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[23,41,94,95,151,210,211,402,425,467,484,491,518,536,537,545,546,601,602],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-expert-opinion","tag-adichie","tag-awuah","tag-chimamanda","tag-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie","tag-educating-a-new-generation-of-african","tag-hans","tag-hans-rosling","tag-ngozi","tag-patrick-awuah","tag-rosling","tag-shekhar-kapur","tag-single-story","tag-story","tag-ted","tag-tedtalk","tag-the-best-stats-youve-ever-seen","tag-the-danger-of-a-single-story","tag-we-are-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves","tag-we-should-all-be-feminists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}