[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. […]
Usually when I’m photographing at TED, I’m using heavy digital SLRs with lots of lenses. This year, however, I’m also making a few fun photos with the most modest of cameras, my iPhone using the Instagram app. Here are a few of my favorites so far as the team gets the venue ready for TED. […]
The TED2011 program guide — containing short speaker bios and sharp portraits by Siegfried Woldhek, plus a magazine of info about TED projects — is available in a couple of electronic forms this year, for the first time at a Long Beach TED. First to drop: the TED2011 iPad app. Using some new software, Adobe […]
The amazing Cindy Gallop — whose 2009 TEDTalk was a powerful look at the effects of online porn on a generation of young people — has expanded the short talk into a thoughtful TED Book. In Make Love Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior, Gallop talks about the personal experiences and research that […]
At TEDMED, Danny Hills makes a case for the next frontier of cancer research: proteomics, the study of proteins in the body. As Hillis explains it, genomics shows us a list of the ingredients of the body — while proteomics shows us what those ingredients produce. Understanding what’s going on in your body at the […]
It’s been said that when an elder dies, it’s as if a library is burned. Anthropologist Elizabeth Lindsey, a National Geographic Fellow, collects the deep cultural knowledge passed down as stories and lore. (Recorded at TEDWomen, December 2010, in Washington, DC. Duration: 10:13) [ted id=1081] Watch Elizabeth Lindsey’s talk on TED.com where you can download […]
Fast Company just released their 2011 list of the Most Influential Women in Technology, and four women with TEDTalks made the cut! Watch their talks below. At TEDWomen, director of MIT’s Personal Robots Group Cynthia Breazeal shares her designs for interactive, socially intelligent robots. [ted id=1070] Natalie Jeremijenko, director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic […]