The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who’s reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED’s Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished — and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad. […]
Aside from being software engineers, Michael May and Peter Ma (above) have another cool thing in common: they both won a contest to attend TEDGlobal 2010. Peter Ma is a winner of Snaptic’s first Move Your App! Developer Challenge. An offshoot of Jamie Oliver’s 2010 TED Prize wish, Move Your App! gives prizes for programs […]
Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 19:46) http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Watch Elif Shafak’s talk on TED.com, where […]
The TEDx blog has a charming report on the TEDxLive events happening around the world during TEDGlobal: For this year’s TEDGlobal, TEDx organizers were offered the chance to host a TEDxLive — a gathering around a live webcast of the conference. Among them was TEDxDubaiLive, who enjoyed TEDGlobal talks from Jamil Abu Wardeh and Naif […]
Founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange talks to Chris Anderson about the controversial nature of his website’s practice of finding and releasing classified documents to the public. Stefan Wolff says that ethnic conflict and civil war have been in overall decline in recent years. But, we need leaders who are willing and able to make peace, […]
Johan Rockstroem calls for transformative change in the way we treat the environment. He says we’re putting a quadruple squeeze on the planet: Population growth, climate agenda, ecosystem decline and the element of surprise. Vice-president of WWF, Jason Clay is not just encouraging consumers to buy sustainable products, but leveraging companies to create a future […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyoJ-JItpVY&hl=en_US&fs=1%5D From Sylvain Zimmer’s liveblog of TEDGlobal … a musical moment.
After Session 10 wrapped, TEDGlobal hosted a taping of the BBC World Service program “The Forum,” a weekly radio show about that brings three very different thinkers together to share and debate new ideas. Host Bridget Kendall, at right, laughs with her panel of TEDsters, from left: Ethan Zuckerman (watch his TEDTalk from this conference), […]
Sugata Mitra shares his amazing experiences with self-organized, self-directed learning by kids. He drops off a computer and a task, to come back to children working together to learn new and complex information. Conrad Wolfram wants to revolutionize math education by recognizing the role of computers in calculation. Why are we teaching kids how to […]
More than 3,000 people have volunteered to translate TEDTalks into (at last count) 77 languages. Above are some of those dedicated volunteers, on the plaza of the Ashmolean Museum after Session 9 for a breezy group portrait. The group below, clearly bursting with energy, are TEDx hosts — people who run independent TED-like events in […]
TED Senior Fellow Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo performs one of her poems, on identity and pride, a favorite of her mother’s. Gero Miesenboeck says that if we can learn to control the activities of neurons, we can begin to truly understand the brain. He shows the advances he’s made in manipulating the brains of flies, even […]
Sure, the web connects the whole world, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to let the whole wide world share their stories. Listen for some strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the world news in languages you don’t even […]
TEDGlobal speaker Laurie Santos holds up a monkey token — the first unit of nonhuman currency — in the ancient coin room at the Ashmolean Museum. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED
According to Tim Jackson, many of us are caught in a cycle of “spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need to create impressions that don’t last on people we don’t care about.” He’s proposing that we build a new kind of economic system, one that nurtures humanity’s altruistic qualities and the ecological […]
From stage at TEDGlobal 2010, Pat Mitchell announces the next TED conference: TEDWomen, this December in Washington DC. TEDWomen will reveal: Who are the women leading change? What ideas are they championing? And how are they shaping the future? Over the past several years, our ideas on women have changed. A new lens reveals women […]
Founder of Barrington Park Estate Farms Adrian Dolby asks “Can organic farming feed the world?” He knows we’re failing to feed it today and thinks organic farming may be an opportunity. Dutch artist and designer Christien Meindertsma wanted to see how all the parts of a pig are used in our modern industrial society, so […]