Alex Steffen, author and futurist, speaking at TED University during TEDGlobal 2011, July 11, 2011. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Csaba Manyai, host of TEDxDanubia: To kick off TED University, Csaba Manyai introduces us to the Urania Scientific Theatre, a Budapest society devoted to sharing ideas from science and knowledge … starting in 1899. […]
June Cohen hosts TED University at TEDGlobal 2011, July 7-15, 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED This afternoon at TED U, as the stage was being set up for a musical performance by Somi, host June Cohen (above) asks the audience at the Lyceum Theater: “What’s a trend happening now that we […]
At TEDGlobal University, TEDxDanubia host Csaba Manyai just introduced us to the Urania Scientific Theatre, a Budapest society devoted to sharing ideas from science and knowledge … starting in 1899. He reads us an excerpt from their founding document — and wishes us the same as TEDGlobal begins: “The Urania Theatre aims to be a […]
Lars Jan, transmedia director: Lars creates multimedia performances that questions the boundaries between truth and fiction. Collaborating with “Paul,” a character that operates in the real world, Lars examines whether we can create networks and meaning out of our own semi-fictional selves. His subjects have included Laika the Soviet space dog, a suicide bomber, land […]
Yana Buhrer Tavanier, speaking at the TEDGlobal 2011 TED Fellows Talks, Monday, July 11, 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Somi, singer + cultural activist: Raised in Zambia, living in New York, vocalist and songwriter Somi and her ensemble wake the TED Fellows Talks session into the rhythm of the day […]
Just announced today at the TEDx Workshop, happening in Edinburgh: TEDxWomen — a one-day global event to keep the conversation going. TEDxWomen, hosted by Pat Mitchell, is a one-day event happening live on December 1, 2011, at the Paley Center in New York and Los Angeles and streaming live to TEDx events around the world. […]
We’re welcoming two guest hosts to TEDGlobal 2011 — Pat Mitchell, from the Paley Center for Media, who hosts Session 8, and Matt Ridley, whose 2010 TEDTalk was memorably titled “When Ideas Have Sex,” and who’ll be hosting Session 5. We asked both hosts a few questions about their plans for their session of TED. […]
We’re welcoming two guest hosts to TEDGlobal 2011 — Pat Mitchell, from the Paley Center for Media, who hosts Session 8, and Matt Ridley, whose 2010 TEDTalk was memorably titled “When Ideas Have Sex,” and who’ll be hosting Session 5. We asked both hosts a few questions about their plans for their session of TED. […]
It’s fun watching the pre-TEDGlobal tweets roll in from our speakers … Lee Cronin (@leecronin): Getting ready for my TEDGlobal 2011 talk on Inorganic Biology. It’s about a revolution not evolution … Sheril Kirshenbaum (@Sheril_): 4 days until TED Global conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2011 Choosing my final slides tonight… Robin Ince (@robinince): 1st draft of TED talk just […]
Meet the extraordinary new class of TEDGlobal Fellows in this gorgeous downloadable guide, just released. Each TEDGlobal Fellow gets two pages to talk about his or her work and ideas — it’s a snapshot of the world to come … Download the 2011 TEDGlobal Fellows guide >>
Next week, TEDGlobal 2011 starts in Edinburgh. Among the many talks will be several spectacular performances, from music to dance to sand painting. If you’re attending, or watching on the webcast, here’s a taste of what to expect from some of these performers: British soul singer Alice Russell fills her music with a passion and strength […]
In his classic Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain wrote one of his most famous lines: “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” TED is anchored by the belief that brilliance is a public good — that inspiration, intellectualism, passion […]
On anatomy, destiny, marriage … 1-3pm Eastern. She asks: The recent passage of gay marriage rights in New York demonstrate what I talked about in my TED lecture — the steady historical movement away from dividing people based on anatomical differences. What do you think our democracy is going to look like in the future, […]
Charlie Sheen. Weinergate. Obama’s birth certificate. If you think the stories major media outlets obsess about hit tawdry new lows each week, you’re not alone. But you don’t have to follow the industry into the abyss of banality. You can do something about it, starting with your daily media consumption choices. In her provocative new […]
TED.com video exists to celebrate great speakers, thinkers, doers — people with ideas that are passionately held and clearly put. For our speakers, putting their videos online has, in many cases, amplified their work beyond imagination, provoking new connections and directions to their careers and even their lives. As we approached the fifth anniversary of […]
In talking to our readers and speakers, a fascinating fact emerged: At least two people, two different people, have tattoos inspired by a TEDTalk. The same TEDTalk: Rives’ “Mockingbird” remix of TED2006. There must be more. So, a pledge: For every TED-inspired tattoo we hear about, I have promised to donate $1 to the Kickstarter […]