At SXSW this morning, June Cohen, TED’s Executive Producer of Media, announced TED’s intention to open an application programming interface (API) for its posted TEDTalks and associated data — in the hopes that developers will use the API to build new tools for viewing and sharing. Initially, the API will focus on TED’s content library, […]
Are you a Hulu fan? We’re adding the TEDTalks archive to Hulu’s great video library, starting with 55 TEDTalks — including the first talks released from TED2011 last week! Head to hulu.com/tedtalks to browse, review and discuss — and stand by as we build the collection. Watch TEDTalks on Hulu >>
From TEDxRainier: With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer companies find their fates intertwined in the intriguing century-old tale of Prickly Pear Creek. (Recorded at TEDxRainier, November 2010, in Seattle, WA. Duration: 08:47) [ted id=1093] Watch Rob […]
MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son’s life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch “gaaaa” slowly turn into “water.” Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we […]
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises — and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch […]
TED curator Chris Anderson asks: First, if you haven’t seen it yet, watch the amazing TED Prize speech given by French street artist JR. He’s initiating a spectacular global art project that anyone can participate in. But how? This is up to the creative imagination of people around the world. Join this conversation with Chris […]
In the middle of TED, I’m almost inseparable from my big Nikons. In the spirit of continuing my little lo-fi TED photography project, however, I kept snapped off a few frames every time I pulled out my iPhone to stay in touch with the rest of the media team during the event. Here’s a batch […]
When we asked astronaut Cady Coleman to speak to TED2011 from the International Space Station, she asked us: “Will I be able to see a little bit of TED?” We thought: awesome! Our video engineer George Riley talked us through the options in an email thrillingly titled “Watching TED2011 in space?” He writes: We coordinated […]
At the Fellows pre-conference and then again at TED University, Camille Seaman introduced us to the icebergs of the great oceans; as she described them: one snowflake on top of another snowflake, year after year. Her “portraits” of these great towering sea beings document the life of the iceberg, from its youth through its melting and […]
DJs frosty and Turquoise Widsom of dublab.com put together the mix of tunes that played before and after each speaker session at TEDActive 2011. They called it the Entry Mix, and it’s well worth a listen. (It’s available in streaming audio or for download.) Listen here »
Fresh from TED2011 last week: Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala’s young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage. (Recorded at TED2011, March […]
This year at Long Beach, our two official photographers, Robert Leslie and James Duncan Davidson, shot something like 40,000 photos; photographer Michael Brands at Palm Springs turned in another ~7K. (Thank you, burst mode.) TED’s photo editor Mike Femia has been editing things down into two gorgeous photo sets from TED2011 and TEDActive. He’ll be […]
At TED2011 in Long Beach, Grey asked people one simple question: “What are you wondering?” Here’s the result …
Above, Chris Fralic and friends take a tire-squealing ride in the Google self-driving car in spring 2011. Warning, profanity and lots of it. More video below. At TED2011, Sebastian Thrun from Google told us why he wanted to make a self-driving car: “Most automotive deaths are due to human error, not machine error. A driverless car can save lives.” Google’s […]
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/20660248 w=525&h=294] Aboard the Lennon Bus, a crew of TEDActive musicians created this lovely song — and a video! — in one week. Feel the vibe of TEDActive … Musicians on this track include Jill Sobule, Wendy Melvoin, Annie Clark, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Lisa Coleman and Aaron Sterling. Video created by Hiro Murai / Isaac […]
Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: “We need to be able to look at the vastness and complexity of the universe and say, ‘Wow, I dunno. Maybe I’m wrong.’” John Hunter, creator of World Peace Games says, “I allow them to learn, in a bloodless way, how to do what’s […]