This morning at TEDGlobal 2010, our executive producer of TED Media, June Cohen, gave a sneak peek of the Global Conversation Project. Sponsored by GE, this development will let our TED.com users start and find a conversation in any language, to develop a truly worldwide conversation surrounding TEDTalks. Even more, the upcoming project will allow […]
Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices: It’s not enough to make the personal decision that you want a wider world. We have to cultivate xenophiles. Novelist Elif Shafak: We’re surrounded by our mirror images and it’s not healthy for a human to stare at its own reflection too long. Storytelling is a way to transcend cultural […]
The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley says prosperity is “the saving of time while satisfying your needs.” The discussion of individual IQ is irrelevant. The collective brain is what matters to social prosperity. Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: We should value connecting ideas more than protecting them. A lot of important ideas […]
It’s time for TED! Above, TED’s curator, Chris Anderson, and European director, Bruno Giussani, welcome everyone in the theater, in simulcast, on the livestream and following on Twitter and the blog to TEDGlobal 2010. Joseph Nye talks about the idea of “soft power” — the ability to change the world without using threats or money. […]
TED University lets members of the TED audience take the stage — because TEDGlobal attendees are often just as extraordinary as the speakers. TEDGlobal University Session 1, held at Keble Theater and a couple of lively simulcast rooms, packed in more than a dozen short talks. A few highlights: Julian Treasure, pictured above (and watch […]
On Monday afternoon more than 50 TEDx organizers from over 27 countries, along with a number of TEDFellows and TEDGlobal attendees, gathered at the TEDx Workshop at TEDGlobal 2010. TED’s Lara Stein welcomed the TEDx’ers, and TED Curator Chris Anderson both thanked TEDx organizers for their dedication to the year-old program and told them he […]
TEDxOilSpill organizers Dave Troy, left, and Nate Mook at the TEDx Hosts mini-conference, Monday, July 12, in Oxford. Photo: TED / James Duncan Davidson Just before TEDGlobal, several dozen TEDx organizers met at Keble College to run a mini-workshop on making great TEDx events. We’ll have a longer report tomorrow, but tonight we wanted to […]
The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it’s bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf — and many so-called solutions are making the situation worse. (Recorded at TEDxOilSpill, June 2010 in Washington, DC. Duration: 19:56) Watch Carl […]
Above, TED Senior Fellow Jon Gosier talks about SwiftRiver, a new piece of software that helps makes sense of data during a crisis. Photo: TED / James Duncan Davidson The Sunday before TEDGlobal, the TED Fellows held an extraordinary workshop with five Senior Fellows — young thinkers and doers who’ve been asked to continue with […]
The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the world’s poorest people can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you’ll see). (Recorded at TED@Cannes, June 2010 […]
Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons — she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partrnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with unexpected results.(Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 5:07) Watch Nalini Nadkarni’s talk on […]
[Update: Deadline passed]: Write a haiku containing the phrase “smarter planet” and tweet it to @WiredUK — and you could win a pass to TEDGlobal 2010 next week! The contest is supported by IBM and WiredUK, and is open to UK residents only. The competition closes at Midday BST on Thursday 8 July, 2010. The […]
Co-creator of the philanthropic FEED bags, Ellen Gustafson says hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin. At TEDxEast, she launches The 30 Project — a way to change how we farm and eat in the next 30 years, and solve the global food inequalities behind both epidemics. (Recorded at TEDxEast, May 2010 […]
At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 — the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 17:10) Watch Benoit Mandelbrot’s talk on TED.com, where […]
TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and — wait for it — meat. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 02:57) Watch Mitchell Joachim’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find […]
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