TED2017: The future you 4/20/17, 12:07 PM | ANELUEE auyuLtaLte oe a Lf As president of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband enlists his expert statesmanship in the fight against the greatest global y refugee crisis since World War IT. < ” As the son of refugees, David Miliband has first-hand experience with those fleeing conflict and disaster. In 2013, he abandoned a long political career to take the helm of the International Rescue Committee, an NGO committed to emergency and long-term assistance to refugees (and founded at the call of Albert Einstein in 1933). As a former UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Miliband is no stranger to cross-border politics. He is a leading voice against recent anti-refugee and immigration measures in the US, where the IRC currently runs resettlement programs in 29 cities. rescue.org @DMiliband Thursday, April 27, 11:00AM - 12:45PM PDT Session 8: Bugs and Bodies Hosted by Chris Anderson. Pa Robert Sapolsky : Are a Neuroscientist, primatologist, writer q I won Mi Robert Sapolsky is one of the leading neuroscientists in the world, studying stress in primates (including humans). B. Re oe call We all have some measure of stress, and Robert Sapolsky explores its causes as well as its effects on our bodies (his lab was among the iy f “ae 4 first to document the damage that stress can do to our hippocampus). In his research, he follows a population of wild baboons in Kenya, & M ™ ) who experience stress very similarly to the way humans do. By measuring hormone levels and stress-related diseases in each primate, he <a rs Bee : determines their relative stress, looking for patterns in personality and social behavior that might contribute. These exercises have given K Sapolsky amazing insight into all primate social behavior, including our own. He has been called "one of the best scientist-writers of our time" by Oliver Sacks. Sapolsky has produced, in addition to numerous scientific papers, books for broader audiences, i