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That big old voice: Lissie at TEDGlobal 2013“I started writing songs to be heard, to get attention. In life, being understood is really important to me,” says Lissie in a near-whisper into the microphone. “I write songs to process my emotions, and when we tour it’s cool to see other people process their emotions with my songs.” And with that, she and […]
Timelapse: Building an arena for flying robotsOur photographer Duncan Davidson loves to shoot time-lapses; before every TED, you can find him behind the scenes hiding cameras to snap away for hours and days. In his latest piece, he tracks the construction of a custom robot arena for Raffaello D’Andrea, whose TED Talk was posted just last night. The TED Blog asked […]
Exquisite Enigmatic Us: Opening titles for Session 3, TEDGlobal 2013A lovely meditation on we exquisite, enigmantic people serves to open Session 3 of TEDGlobal. Olivia Bolles, better known as Olivia Bee, is a 20-year-old American photographer from Portland, Oregon. At 14, her work was featured in an advertising campaign for Converse. Her work has since been used in campaigns for Nike, Hermes and Fiat. […]
Video: Opening titles for Those Flying Things, Session 2 of TEDGlobalSession-opening titles for TEDGlobal 2013 are curated by We Are Pi. The sprightly titles for Session 2 are directed by Sebastien Roux / Superdeux, with collaborators Friends of Mine and Junior Market. They say: 3D robotic animation — these flying machines will soon take over the world. Until then, let’s have fun. Agency: WE ARE […]
Video: Opening titles for Moments of Truth, Session 1 of TEDGlobalOpening titles for TEDGlobal 2013 are curated by We Are Pi (the firm that created that gorgeous kaleidoscope video for TEDxSummit.) Each set of titles is in a different style, with great music, and we’re excited to share them! The titles for Session 1 are a collaboration with talented artist/illustrator Vasco Vicente. It was important […]
Ode to a dead duck: A message from Dr. Carin Bondar on this Dead Duck Day, June 5, 2013It’s Dead Duck Day 2013 — commemorating the day in 1995 when a mallard duck flew into a glass window outside the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, fell to the ground dead, and then became part of the first scientifically observed instance of homosexual necrophilia in mallard ducks. Now, each June 5, curator Kees Moeliker invites […]
When self-identity can change: Q&A with Charles LimbThis morning’s TED Talk from Andrew Solomon asks a deep question about parents and children. Inspired by his own upbringing, Solomon wondered how parents form bonds with extraordinary children — or, in his words, when the “vertical culture” passed from parent to child is different from the “horizontal culture” of the child’s own self-identity. As […]
TED wins a National Design AwardWe’re thrilled to announce: TED is one of the 2013 winners of the National Design Awards, given by the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt. The National Design Awards celebrate design “as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world” — which is how we feel about it too. Great design, like great writing and great speaking, is a […]
Join the conversation about #TEDTalksEdWant to talk about education? Inspired by TED Talks Education, our one-hour TV special that aired on PBS night, and this morning’s batch of TED Talks, here’s a roundup of some great TED Conversations you can join: High school freshman Colin Petre asks: Is college really as important as our society today has made it […]
From TEDGlobal speakers: 11 websites and links you didn’t know you needed in your lifeWe’ve spent the past year researching the lineup for TEDGlobal 2013 — and bookmarking some amazing websites and pages along the way. Here are 11 you really didn’t know you needed. But you do. 1. BioNumbers An addictive database of useful biological numbers. Just go and start looking around, and try to stop — you can […]
A visit to Ron Finley’s LA garden — plus 5 more TED Talks about growing your own foodIn today’s TED Talk, guerilla gardner Ron Finley tells the story of how he was issued a citation, and then a warrant for his arrest, all for planting delicious vegetables in the 150 x 10 foot patch of earth in front of his house in South Central, Los Angeles. It’s a rousing talk — one that […]
Learn more about ocean filmmaker Mike deGruyOn February 4, 2012, ocean filmmaker and educator Mike deGruy was killed in a helicopter crash while on assignment in Australia, along with pilot and filmmaker Andrew Wright. DeGruy (pronounced “degree”) was an Emmy-winning science documentarian and a mainstay of Shark Week; he also worked on James Cameron documentaries about the Titanic and Bismarck and […]
Watch the TED Prize announcement live for free at 5pm PacificWatch all of TED2013 Session 3 for free at 5pm PST today: http://tedlive.ted.com/webcasts/2013 See the 2013 TED Prize revealed!
Beautiful Imperfection: Speakers in Session 2 of TED2013Moving images and hidden systems — Session 2 moved into the world of the unexplored. Listen for an exploration into the secrets of cities, find out how the elusive giant squid was caught on film and hear a case for the virtue of ignorance. The speakers who appeared this session. Click their name to read […]
Progress Enigma: The speakers in Session 1 of TED2013As we assembled TED2013′s lineup of speakers from around the world, talked with the TED brain trust, and listened to online conversations, one theme emerged: What is the future of work? Technology and new business practices are, in many ways, putting an end to the classic “good job,” the kind that millions of people once […]
