. Director Ridley Scott is returning to a genre he defined: Prometheus, a sci-fi epic, is due out in early June. Like the rest of Scott’s work, it’s a movie steeped in ideas about what it means to be human. Screenwriter Damon Lindelof thought it would be appropriate and, well, incredibly cool to have one of […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Space archeology pioneer and Egyptologist Sarah Parcak zooms out from the moment 90 years ago when Howard Carter peered by candlelight into King Tut’s tomb to a new age of archaeological discovery: seeking ancient civilization by 21st-century candlelight. Sarah uses satellite imagery to find evidence of ancient Egyptian cities. Take the […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Superstring theorist and physicist and the co-founder of the World Science Festival, Brian Greene splits his visually rich, action-packed talk into three distinct sections, all in the name of convincing us of the existence of the multiverse, the possibility that way beyond the earth, the milky way, we’ll find that our universe is part of […]
It’s time for TED! To kick off this year’s official TED2012 programming, we’re taking a 30,000 foot view to examine where we are — and where we’re going. Session 1 is the “The Observatory,” with a gorgeous background imagining the audience in a space station looking down on Earth. Follow along the TED Blog as […]
Jessi Arrington, speaking at TEDYou during TEDActive 2012, February 28, 2012. Photo: Marla Aufmuth / TED TEDActive 2012 begins the first day of TED sessions with vibrant and explosive TEDYou talks. Jason Silva says it well: “Gravity and antimatter shaped the early universe, but the future will be building toward an infinitely powerful mind.” JD […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8shG1BMW5I&feature=youtu.be] On the Monday before TED2012 officially begins, we shared an afternoon of wonderment at the TED Fellows Talks: Cockroach dancing … technology and emotion … and the magic of Bach. We went out into the audience and asked: What moved you, what surprised you most?
Before TEDActive sessions begin, Monday’s TEDActive-ists signed up for a slate of pre-conference sessions and fun. See more photos on TEDActive’s daily photo album. TED Prize Workshop with Insight Labs: A three-hour intensive TED Prize workshop, with Insight Labs, asked: How can we get better and better at working together on massive projects? (Photo: Feb […]
[tweet https://twitter.com/vancon/status/174464122375774209%5D We woke up in love with this Twitter hashtag game: #fivewordTEDtalks [tweet https://twitter.com/evgenymorozov/status/174315799899672576%5D [tweet https://twitter.com/Carlos_Osorio/status/174467342997262337%5D [tweet https://twitter.com/therourke/status/174422979764166656%5D [tweet https://twitter.com/hors_doeuvre/status/174473899747184641%5D Read Mischa Nachtigal’s roundup of the Top 10 #fivewordTEDtalks …
Greg Gage, onstage at TED Fellows Talks. Photo: Ryan Lash On the afternoon before TED2012 mainstage sessions begin, the Center Theater was packed to the rafters for two sessions of TED Fellows talks. Here’s what happened … Christine Marie, shadow artist With a clap of thunder and a flash of light, the TED2012 Fellows talks […]
Less than 24 hours before TED and just a few miles away in sunny Beverly Hills, the TED2012 house band gathers for its third day of rehearsal. It’s a very cool group of dudes, jamming away in the hidden, but fascinating Gibson Showcase Theater, where guitars of the one-of-a-kind variety dangle from the walls, threatening […]
For the third consecutive year, TED has invited a guest curator to host a session at the conference. This time, duties have fallen to a duo: design commentator, Chee Pearlman, and architect and founder of Rockwell Group, David Rockwell. The two are collaborating on “The Design Studio,” a session featuring a host of boldface creative […]
Over 250 TEDx event organizers from over 45 countries met in the California desert on Sunday to discuss the next steps for this already-prolific community. After presentations by TED staff and fellow organizers, everyone dispersed to nine stations for brainstorming sessions on speaker training, PR and social media, university events, youth events, storytelling, sponsorships and […]
Congratulations to Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who won an Oscar this evening for her short documentary Saving Face. Obaid-Chinoy accepted the award with co-director Daniel Junge. She may be the first person from Pakistan to win an Oscar — and she’s definitely the first of our TED Fellows to take home an Academy Award. Watch the powerful […]
Look for great photos of TED2012 on our Pinterest boards — starting with Backstage at TED … and expanding throught the week!
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 Nairobi! If Nairobi is the closest audition spot to you geographically, sign up to […]
From the TED Fellows blog: Taking off full force on the first day of their pre-conference, TED2012 Fellows were treated to a cluster of workshops offering tools on how best to get attention and support for their extraordinary work — from the profits and pitfalls of public speaking to how to run an exciting crowd-sourcing […]