TED-Ed is a new initiative to build a deep, tagged archive of educational videos — expanding the reach and power of great video (including TEDTalks) into the classroom by making them easier for teachers to find. Above, TEDsters use BlackBerry PlayBooks to watch and tag educational videos in the Café at TEDGlobal 2011; below, TED-Ed’s […]
Media pioneer Pat Mitchell hosts Session 8: Embracing Otherness: “I suspect all of us have at one point or another have been the other.” Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Actor Thandie Newton: “The key to my success as an actor is the very lack of self that used to make me feel so anxious […]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/26434597 w=525&h=294] Video: At TEDGlobal 2011, Tom Wujec, a Fellow at Autodesk and a repeat TED speaker, showed his spectacular note-taking technique to the TED Blog’s Karen Eng.
Movement expert Daniel Wolpert on the relationship between brain and body: “Our brains map our own body’s motions and correct our perception. That’s why you can’t tickle yourself.” Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Sheril Kirshenbaum talks about the science behind an ancient behavior, kissing: “We’re interpreting the world through our mouths more than we […]
Underworld investigator Misha Glenny: “There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they’ve been hacked and those that don’t.” Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Cybersecurity expert Mikko Hypponen advocates for an “Internetpol” — an Interpol for the net. He says: “In the vast majority of online attacks, we don’t even […]
The second TEDTalk posted from TEDGlobal 2011, happening now in Edinburgh: Why do transnational extremist organizations succeed — where democratic movements have a harder time taking hold? Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist extremist, asks for new grassroots stories and global social activism to spread democracy in the face of nationalism and xenophobia. A powerful talk […]
The eETIQUETTE space at TEDGlobal 2011. Photo: Robert Leslie / TED Can you put your phone down for 1 hour? Not many people can without an increase in stress levels. Designer Julia Leihener of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories’ Creation Center took the time to bring e-etiquette to techies and power users at TEDGlobal 2011. TED Blog’s Corvida Raven […]
Matt Ridley, rational optimist, hosts Session 5: Emerging Order, on July 13, during TEDGlobal 2011, July 11-15, 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Svante Paabo, geneticist: “Today, people living outside of Africa have 2.5% of their DNA from Neanderthals. We have always mixed — with other early humans, and with each […]
The first TEDTalk posted from TEDGlobal 2011, happening now in Edinburgh: In this powerful talk, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is headed […]
Niall Ferguson: Most of the $195,000 billion of wealth in the world was made after around 1800 and most is owned by Westerners. Why did wealth accrue to the West? Ferguson says: It’s not geography, it’s not national character. It’s ideas and institutions. Call them the “killer apps” of civilization. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / […]
Host Bruno Giussani open Session 3 of TEDGlobal 2011: Coded Patterns. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Physicist Geoffrey West asks: Are there quantitative, predictive laws of life? Yes — there are laws for organisms because they are made of networks. Is the same true of cities and corporations? Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED […]
For the first time at TEDGlobal, a small group of TED Translators came together to present ideas and talk about the future of the Open Translation Project. Discussions centered around how to better collaborate, communicate and capture knowledge amongst the TED translator community, as well as playing subtitled TEDTalks in schools and engaging with the […]
Hasan Elahi was targeted for screening by the FBI after a case of mistaken identity. So he decided to open his life completely. “There’s 46,000 images on my site now. I trust the FBI has seen all of them.” Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Maajid Nawaz says: “For 13 years I was an extremist […]
Chris Anderson, left (with Bruno Giussani, right): “It’s a beautiful truth that all knowledge is connected. And now: It’s time for TED!” Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Biologist Lee Cronin at #TEDGlobal asks: What is life? What is the most basic unit of matter that can evolve? Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Annie […]
Nathalie Miebach, TEDGlobal Fellow, artist, speaking at TED University during TEDGlobal 2011, July 12, 2011. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Jeremy Moon, “Anything Can Be Prototyped”: “Creativity is the life force of the universe,” says Jeremy Moon, the CEO and founder of Icebreaker Clothing, “and my passion is unlocking the creativity in business.” He […]
TED University during TEDGlobal 2011, July 12, 2011. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED During Session 2 of TED University, host June Cohen asked: Are you optimistic or pessimistic, and why? and asked for answers of one sentence. I’m optimistic because the number of TEDxes just passed 2,000 and there’s no end in sight! … […]