[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo24PmD9eic] During Session 6: Knowledge Revolution, TEDx’s Lara Stein played this inspiring video, pulling footage from TEDx events all over the world. Barely into the second year of TEDx, the community of hosts around the world is closing in on 2,000 events of all sizes, sharing great ideas in their schools, companies and hometowns around […]
The first talk posted from TED2011, happening now in California: As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what’s happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond — at this powerful moment when people realized they could step […]
Every minute, 300 new learners are born into this world. How can TED play a role in enriching their education? We need your help to answer this question. In a few weeks, TED will be launching an online forum. We’re calling it the TED-ED Brain Trust. We’re seeking the expertise of visionary educators, students, organizations, […]
Since the TEDx program launched 18 months ago, it has grown to include over 1,700 organizers globally, with hundreds of TEDx events planned for the upcoming months. On Sunday, February 26th, at Cabot’s Pueblo Museum in Palm Springs, over 160 TEDx organizers gathered in the desert for the now-annual TEDx Workshop at TEDActive. Workshop organizers […]
Carlo Ratti launches airborne pixels on little helicopters to make flying art. Aaron Koblin shows a crowd-sourced Johnny Cash music video created frame by frame by volunteers … Mattias Astrom demos C3, a new 3D mapping tech … Mike Matas demos http://www.pushpoppress.com/ for the first time live onstage, at TED. Chefs Homaru Cantu and Ben […]
Watch our video overview of day one at TEDActive 2011: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw2-3hgOL6o&w=525]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/20527833 w=525&h=294] Astronaut Cady Coleman, who’s on a six-month tour on the International Space Station, recorded this talk last week to address the opening session of TED2011. Join her on a tour of the space station … with a view. TED’s Film + Video director Jason Wishnow, who directed and edited this short film […]
The TED2011 house band, the Berklee City Music All-Stars, opens Session 2. Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, founders of Handspring Puppet Company, bring a pioneering hyena puppet to stage. The Handspring Puppeteers bring a life-size horse puppet on stage, which is part of their latest production, “War Horse.” “Gamestorming” author Sunni Brown says, “The doodle […]
It’s time for TED! Photo: TED / Robert Leslie Astronaut Cady Coleman talks to the audience newly assembled in Long Beach, Palm Springs and all over the world, from her home in zero-gravity on the International Space Station. Watch her talk. Then Gregory Groover Jr., from TED2011’s house band, the Berklee City Music All-Stars, played […]
At TED University Session 2 this morning, we discovered the science behind our smiles, witnessed a tale of a valiant shoe rescue, and heard about the “rich seed beds of serendipity.” Here are just a few of the highlights: Googler Amit Sood used his “20 percent” time to develop the Google Art Project, which transports us […]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/20559195 w=525&h=294] From the blog of +1 Amsterdam: Last year we designed the opening title for TEDxAmsterdam. This work came to attention of Chris Anderson, the international TED curator. He was impressed and asked us to work on the opening film for their ‘flagship conference’: TED2011 in Long Beach, California. This year’s theme is […]
At TED University Session 1, we learned about modernist cooking … saw a flower unfold in sped-up time … met a woman who grows her own clothes … and heard one of the most exquisite musical instruments ever made. A few highlights from this session: Cellist Joshua Roman, a TED Fellow, played his (borrowed) […]
The week of TED2011 kicked off with the TED Fellows pre-conference, where an extraordinary group of people shared some really fascinating work. The TED Blog spoke with a few Fellows after their presentations; look for more Q&As all week. Chris Woebken has created a device that gives you ant-vision, a billboard that translates for bats, […]
We’re excited to announce, on the eve of TED2011, that you can now watch TEDTalks on Hulu. Starting with a set of 50 TEDTalks you can browse, we’ll soon (after TED) grow the collection to match the 800+ talks online at TED.com. Hulu’s Andy Forssell wrote a nice blog post welcoming us to the incredibly […]
Sunday was the first onsite rehearsal for the TED2011 house band, six young stars from Berklee College of Music’s City Music program. These musicians, most still in high school, come from New York, New Jersey, Boston, Philly and Cleveland, and they’ve been getting together every weekend for a month to get ready for this gig. […]
The bright, useful TED2011 Program Guide (download it for iPad or for desktop) draws a good helping of its personality from 50 extraordinary drawings, from the pen of illustrator Siegfried Woldhek. (If his name sounds familiar, watch his TEDTalk.) Charming and incisive, the portraits of TED2011 speakers and performers speak volumes about who they are. […]