TED Day 4: Decoding the Unseen

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By Gemma Tarlach
Mar 1, 2013 10:24 PMNov 19, 2019 9:26 PM
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Rose George, sanitation champion, at TED2013. From the hidden life of microbial ecosystems, to cybercrime, to the long chain of consequences set into motion by not washing your hands after using the toilet, Thursday’s TED 2013 spotlight illuminated the unseen systems of our world that impact all of us, sometimes fatally. “Diarrhea is a weapon of mass destruction,” declared Rose George on TED’s main stage Thursday afternoon. George is on a crusade for better sanitation, which has brought her from India to Africa to the tony conference space at Long Beach, where she pointedly noted she’d washed her hands after a trip to the toilet. George told the audience that though diarrhea kills a child every 15 seconds and can be easily and cheaply prevented, it rarely receives the attention given to diseases such as malaria, which kills fewer people per year. George’s book

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