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 […]
This year at TEDGlobal, Thomas Dolby has assembled his own group of musicians to perform with him on stage: Matthew Seligman Bass In the late ’70s, bassist Matthew Seligman set the groove for British psychedelic guitar-pop group The Soft Boys. Then he rode the crest of the New Wave movement with the Thompson Twins in […]
Miwa Matreyek travels from waterscape to starscape to cityscape and back again, magically interacting with visually striking animations. Neil Gershenfeld is trying to re-implement biology with semiconductors, conductors, insulators — to literally grow technology. He says “If a program is a structure, it can become a thing.” Tan Le shows a next-gen gaming interface: the […]
At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It’s not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. […]
Inge Missmahl wants to bring psychotherapy into war-torn regions. Example: Afghanistan. The family is central in the Afghan society — but sometimes people cannot share their trauma with their family. Mitchell Besser: HIV is a medical story, but more a social story. (And meds don’t equal medical care.) 33 million people living with HIV in […]
Sheena Iyengar talks about how cultural differences affect the way we percieve choices. “For those unaccustomed to them, lots of options simply create confusion, not better choices.” Laurie Santos says the errors we make in decision making are predictable — we tend to make the same mistakes again and again. She asks, “How is such […]