Jack Horner describes his work to recreate a living dinosaur from the genes of an unlikely ancestor: What we’re trying to do is take our chicken, modify it, and make a chickenosaurus. Rajesh Rao on deciphering the controversial Indus script: If it looks like a linguistic script and it acts like a linguistic script, then […]
At the final session of TED University, we learned how to draw mindmaps, predicted a future in which buildings are self-assembling, and heard a touching story about a passenger’s life after the Hudson River plane crash. Here were some of the highlights: Bill Gates talks about state budgets, corrupt processes, and what this means for […]
Shown onstage at TED2011: Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt’s democratic revolution — with a Facebook page memorializing a victim of the regime’s violence. Speaking at TEDxCairo, he tells the inside story of the past two months, when everyday Egyptians showed that “the power of the people is stronger than the […]
America’s school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits — with the financing of education at the losing end. (Recorded at TED2011, March 2011, in […]
Béatrice Coron is a paper cutter: “I visualize my story … and as my image is already inside the paper, I just have to remove what’s not from that story.” Sarah Kay shares her spoken word with TED and talks about the challenges and joys of poetry: “I show up to each new poem with a […]
Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental, fluidly moving sculpture that responds to environmental forces. Daniel Tammet is a high-functioning autistic savant, has synesthesia, and has an astonishing brain. “Personal perceptions are at the heart of how we acquire knowledge.” Fiorenzo Omenetto has found game-changing uses for silk: “The answer to whatever you want to do […]
A video roundup of the third day of TEDActive 2011: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVGcr4DWhlg&w=525&h=325%5D
Edward Tenner, historian of technology and culture, shares the intrigue of unintended consequences: “I didn’t always love unintended consequences, but I have learned to appreciate them.” Eythor Bender brings out Amanda Boxtel, a wheelchair user wearing an astonishing new exoskeleton. She is walking. Eli Pariser reveals some frightening data about our online identities: “I call it […]
JR made his inspired TED wish: I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating a global art project. And together we’ll turn the world INSIDE OUT. Antony, musician and artist, played gorgeous songs of yearning to close out Session 7. (Photo: Robert Leslie / TED) Chris Anderson makes a […]
Posted from TED2011, happening now in California: JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his […]
In an experimental Session 6, Bill Gates hosted and guest-curated the speaker lineup. David Christian charts our course from the Big Bang to today: “To understand complexity, you have to survey the whole history of the universe. So let’s do it.” Amina Az-Zubair on the UN Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria: “We are making progress. […]
Julie Taymor took us on a journey, from Indonesia, where she experienced a seminal moment in her life as a young artist, and through her life’s work, including The Lion King, The Tempest, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Morgan Spurlock shares his takeaway from his new marketing documentary, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold: “Today, […]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/20618607 w=525&h=294] From Romy Owens’ Vimeo channel: Jason Hackenwerth, Leah Blair and a few TED folk all appear in this time-lapse detailing the three days of building a sculpture for TED2011 in Long Beach, California. The build was short and on location at the Performing Arts Center where TED is currently being held. Many […]
The fabulous Phantom Galleries LA opens at noon today for the new show JR@TED. It’s open to the public — come by and see it if you can, and learn more about JR’s work and wish and his new project, INSIDE OUT. Noon-7pm, Thursday, March 3 10am-7pm, Friday, March 4 JR @ TED at Phantom […]
Antonio Damasio: "If we are interested in gravity … why should we not be interested in what is happening in the human self?" Damon Horowitz on the Prison University Project: “At that moment … it is not professor and convict, it is two minds ready to do philosophy.” Felisa Wolfe-Simon: “Can a microbe use arsenic […]
A video roundup of the second day of TEDActive 2011: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUGiZdPBhww&w=525&h=325%5D