Negin Farsad

Comedian, filmmaker
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TED Fellow Negin Farsad gets laughs to promote social change. She is a regular on NPR’s Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk; she also hosts the podcast Fake the Nation. The author of How to Make White People Laugh, she stars in Max’s Birdgirl and has directed three feature films, including The Muslims Are Coming!, featuring Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow.


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Storytellers and scientists: Notes from TED Fellows Session 2 at TED2017

April 25, 2017

On the morning of TED2017’s first day, our TED Fellows continue to blow minds in session 2 of the TED Fellows Talks — including a science demo featuring carnivorous plants, some gorgeous cultural mashups, and an introduction to the fish who won evolution. Do plants have brains? Well, no, but they’re certainly not dumb. And, […]

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Women at war, women as friends: The talks in Session 6 of TEDWomen 2015

May 29, 2015

What is an idea, really, if you keep it to yourself? No, ideas are meant to be shared. In this session, stories of connection — from Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, who have been friends since 9 to 5, to Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols, a couple who traveled around the world documenting the lives of “supergays.” Short recaps of […]

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