A collaboration between TED and Japanese public broadcaster NHK is bringing TEDTalks to TV for the first time in Japan — for Super Presentation! It’s a series that harnesses TED speakers’ persuasive ideas to teach English, empower a new generation of independent thinkers, and build hope one year after the Japanese tsunami. Friday night at […]
TEDxChange Brisbane: September 21, 2010, Brisbane Powerhouse. Photo: TEDxBrisbane / Mark Lobo TEDxChange, convened by Melinda Gates and hosted by Chris Anderson, will focus on “Big Picture” thinking around our most complex problems — and their solutions. Around the world, nearly 200 events from 66 countries will watch the livestream together. We asked some of […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpt7mL4Rdko Today, YouTube’s homepage spotlight features interviews with the creatives behind the campaigns that won TED’s Ads Worth Spreading — an initiative to recognize and reward innovation, ingenuity and intelligence in advertising. The 10 winning ads were unveiled at TED2012 and representatives of each campaign attended the conference from Tunisia, Germany, Japan, Canada and the US. […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NHOpeczUU] This short, sweet explainer from BlinkTower tells you just what you need to know about TED and TEDx — and might inspire you to start your own event! Via TEDxSeaPoint, in Cape Town, South Africa.
A Nigerian healthcare entrepreneur providing urgent air services across West Africa. A Lebanese-Egyptian Islamic art historian who uses ancient Arabic visual data to solve modern-day design issues. A British applied mathematician looking for ways to diagnose Parkinson’s disease by listening to patients’ voices. The TED Fellows program — which honors world-changing innovators from around the […]
[youtube http://youtu.be/MYzO8CS3IAw%5D What is your role in solving the world’s biggest problems? Climate change, global poverty, the AIDS/HIV crisis — solving these problems will demand big thinking and unprecedented international cooperation. That’s where TEDxChange comes in. TEDxChange 2012 is a platform for sharing game-changing ideas — and the world is invited to join the conversation. […]
From April to June 2012, TED will be throwing 14 events around the world to search for unheard voices that need to be seen onstage at TED2013. Learn more about TED2013 Worldwide Talent Search >> Just announced: Applications are open now to appear at the event in Vancouver! If TED@Vancouver is the closest event to […]
In the past decade, we’ve changed the way we collectively view the health of the 7 billion people who occupy this planet. Health issues were once seen as an isolated national or regional problem; now they are a global concern. In What’s Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems, 2011 TED […]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/38802303%5D Keeping with his annual tradition, Rickshaw Bags’ CEO, Mark Dwight, rode his bicycle more than 500 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles in February to attend TED2012 in Long Beach — along the way raising more than $10,000 to help homeless youth via the I Think I Can campaign. With a Go […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr4gWi9Jf6k] Educator Stacey Roshan from techieMusings shares this great, simple project: I work with a group of 9-12th grade students (very mixed skill level) and decided to do a unit focusing on social media. After the launch of TED-Ed, I got to thinking that maybe I could tie it all together … So I had […]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/38292386 w=525&h=294] Watch Theo Jemison’s video of artist Kiel Johnson’s installation “Everyone’s an Architect” at TEDActive 2012. See how the project grows throughout the week, with dozens of collaborators stopping by or spending long hours to help build Johnson’s charming cardboard city — lit up with LEDs powered by human foot traffic and a […]
This morning we’re thrilled to formally announce TED’s official app for Android, which lets you browse and watch 1100+ TEDTalks on a wide array of Android-enabled phones and tablets. The new TED app for Android is built to adapt to all kinds of Android devices, including the new Sony Tablet P “dual screen” and the […]
John Boswell, who makes those wonderful Symphony of Science mashups, came to Long Beach with a mission: to auto-tune TED2012. Watch what he created: “It’s Time for TED.” The TED Blog asked John how he did it — how he compressed three days (and a few extra years) of TED onstage into this catchy number […]
A Pi day special! At TEDxYouth@BommerCanyon, 9-year-old Chirag Singh confesses his irrational love for Pi — and not the kind you eat: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhG3VbNPX5g%5D
Is the Earth maxed out, or should we be optimistic abut being able to solve our future? At TED2012 last week, Paul Gilding made the case for the former, and Peter Diamandis argued for the latter. And then: they debated onstage. Watch the video above to find out what happened. Want to talk about it […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqly8ERIkHM&w=560&h=315%5D Throughout today, we’ll be sharing incredible video from our new TED-Ed channel. In the deepest, darkest parts of the oceans are ecosystems with more diversity than a tropical rainforest. Taking us on a voyage into the ocean — from the deepest trenches to the remains of Titanic — marine biologist David Gallo explores […]