[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCOgBmLmMGk] Cross-posted from the TED Fellows blog: The TED2012 Fellows and three classes of Senior Fellows have arrived in Long Beach from every corner of the planet! Happy reunions and excited introductions — but what’s really on their minds as their week begins? Watch this video to hear just a few of the Fellows on […]
On Monday, TED2012 kicks off in Long Beach, and TEDActive in Palm Springs. If you’d like to watch one day of TED — in company of great people from your community — check out TEDxLive! Around the world, local TEDx organizers will be sharing a livestream of Wednesday’s TED sessions in theaters, homes, cafes and […]
From April to June 2012, TED will be throwing 14 auditions around the world to search for unheard voices that need to be put onstage for TED2013. Learn more about TED2013 Worldwide Auditions >> Just announced: Auditions are open now in Johannesburg! If Jo’burg is the closest audition spot to you geographically, sign up to […]
On Wednesday night, join the world to watch Session 7 of TED2012 for free. In Session 7, the TED Prize wish for this year’s winner, The City 2.0, will be revealed onstage, and you’ll hear great speakers on the subject of cities … updates from past TED Prize winners, including last year’s winner, JR … […]
Building the stage for TED2012 at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center on Wednesday night. Photo: Jason Wishnow It’s almost time for TED2012: Full Spectrum! On Monday at 1:30pm California time, our first pre-session begins with the remarkable TED Fellows conference. While the two sessions of the TED Fellows conference won’t be livestreamed, look for […]
Meet the phenomenal new TED2012 Fellows in our just-released downloadable guide. Inside you’ll find photos and profiles of all 65 Fellows onsite: the class of TED2012 as well as all three classes of Senior Fellows. Dive in to explore their lives, work and ideas — and prepare to lose your socks! Download the TED2012 Fellows […]
Welcome to the TEDActive 2012 Projects! Whether or not you’re attending TEDActive in Palm Springs next week, you’re invited to join a few brainstorms and get ideas flowing around six big topics. Jump into the online discussions, find other amazing people and spark collaborative conversation on Facebook. There are six projects listed below. Read the questions that […]
MoveTVnetwork asked dancer and choreographer Galen Hooks, shown above in rehearsal with The LXD, about her favorite performing moment. In this wonderful 4-minute interview, she talks about what it was like to dance onstage at TED2010 — and to receive the longest standing ovation in TED history: [vimeo http://vimeo.com/36883994 w=525&h=294] Watch the full video of […]
Reporter Anthony Shadid died this week in Syria, in the midst of a distinguished career as a reporter in the Middle East, based in Beirut and Baghdad. In April 2011, he was a surprise speaker at TEDxOKC, in his hometown of Oklahoma City — where he shared his hopes for a reimagined Middle East. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZsBFg0cEAA] […]
Part of Bangalore-based art duo Pors & Rao, Aparna Rao (watch her TED Talk) embeds high-tech and humor in interactive, sculptural artworks that awaken us to our own subtle behavioral patterns and emotional responses. What’s your vision and motivation for making this art? I think it’s more a compulsion than a vision. It all started […]
One year ago today, we launched our platform for long-form conversations: TED Conversations. Since that time the TED Conversation community has held 6,435 Conversations, on topics such as: How can computer models help us build intuition? Where do you use math in your profession? Can we ever know how another person “senses” the world? And […]
Everyone loves a good quote. They challenge us. They change us. They make us think and make us laugh. They are — in their most compressed and contagious form — ideas. So today, we’re launching TED Quotes, a new initiative that collects memorable quotes from TEDTalks, groups them by category, and makes them as easy […]
Since the Inside Out Project launched last year at TED, more than 70,000 individual photos have been shot and pasted in almost 9,000 locations around the world, sharing a vision of individual identity for the world to see. To house this astonishing collection of portraits online from around the world, Inside Out recently revamped their […]
Creating characters and stories richly inspired by Arabic tradition, Suleiman Bakhit is fighting to change how the West sees Arab youth — and how Arab youth see themselves — one superhero at a time. You started producing comics after you got attacked after 9/11. What happened? I was a student at the University of Minnesota […]
In a timely and incisive talk at TEDxWaterloo, Michael Nielsen made the case for open science — the idea that research data and results should be freely available to the public, and that scientists should collaborate more freely with each other and with the public. Since the talk, his book, Reinventing Discovery, has been released, […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TouL5aVBXc0] From April to June 2012, TED will be holding 14 auditions, around the world, to search for unheard voices to put onstage at TED2013. Learn more about TED2013 Worldwide Auditions >> Just announced: The very first audition will be held in Doha, Qatar, in April, as part of the TEDxSummit conference. If Doha is […]