Temple Grandin: If you have these smart geeky kids with a touch of autism, you need to get them turned on to cool things. Chris Anderson (of Wired): We think the tablet is the future of magazines. Flexibility in design, plus interactivity. (He’s holding the March 2010 issue of Wired.) Mitchell Joachim, a TED Fellow: […]
John Underkoffler: “Technology is capable of expressing generosity. And we need to demand that.” Sergey Brin: Our focus has really been what’s best for the Chinese people. George Church: “We’re not making life from scratch; we’re using all the tricks an engineer can use to leverage natural processes.” Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg of KIPP: […]
At TEDActive, The Innovation Lounge by Bing is a flickering future-gallery from a time when desks and desktop computers have been forgotten, and machines are considered art collaborators rather than just tools. We talked with the space’s curators and each of the artists. Tell me about how you selected the exhibits for the Bing Innovation […]
Ross Evans met the TED Blog to talk about the Worldbike and Xtracycle bicycles that TEDActive attendees have enjoyed on their early-morning rides through the streets of Palm Springs. “The Worldbike is the genesis of this. When I was a sophomore in college I took some time out to go to Nicaragua to help some […]
Andrew Bird says what the world needs now is more reckless curiosity. Stephen Wolfram: Could it be that somewhere out there in the computational universe that we could find our physical universe? Gary Flake demos Pivot — a way to navigate the web as if it’s actually a web. Seth Berkley: “As variable as flu […]
TEDActive Blogger’s Alley in the Bing Innovation Lounge. In the photo: TED’s Kristin Windbigler, Shanna Carpenter and Matthew Trost, and TED speaker Jim Fallon. (Photo: TED / Michael Brands)
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., 2010 TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 21:53) Watch Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate […]
We visited the Intelligentsia Slow Coffee Bar in Bing’s Innovation Lounge to learn what slow coffee is, and hear about the simple approach that brews a perfect cup. “‘Slow coffee’ is an attempt to tackle the notion of quantity and convenience as what defines good coffee. We think the quality of the cup is the […]
OMG, the LXD. Many more photos here >> Jane McGonigal: “An entire generation of young people are virtuoso gamers. We need to figure out exactly what skills they’re honing.” David Byrne: “Like the birds, our joy is always there. We just change it to fit the context.” Jake Shimabukuro jamming with Ethel. Blaise Aguera y […]
Starting the session, former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson calls for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. “It’s a wake-up call we need.” Michael Sandel: “We need to rediscover the lost art of democratic argument.” Christopher “m00t” Poole: “I asked 4chan what I should say at TED. And I got 12,000 responses in about 24 […]
(Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Michael Specter: “You’re entitled to your own opinion — but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Sam Harris: “Does the Taliban have a point of view on physics that is worth considering? … No.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan […]
From the TED Prize session: Jamie Oliver has announced his TED Prize wish. THE WISH: “I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.” THE PLAN: Set up an organization to create a popular movement […]
Amy Novogratz just announced from stage that Google has donated $1 million to AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. This follows Daphney Singo’s moving talk about how AIMS is helping her gain her PhD in nuclear physics — a standing-ovation story of one South African woman’s determination to become educated. As her mother told […]
From the TED Prize session: Mission Blue is the name for an ambitious, overarching project to create marine protected areas. It’s powered by Sylvia Earle’s 2009 TEDPrize wish: “I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine […]
From the TED Prize Session: From stage just now, SETI legend Frank Drake announced the new project SETI Quest — a place to build a network of committed Earthlings who want to help in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. It’s the result of Jill Tarter’s 2009 TED Prize wish. How can you help? From the […]
(Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Cheryl Hayashi: “We call that the ‘business end’ of the spider. Hey, don’t laugh. That’s my life!” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) William Li: “What we eat is really our chemotherapy.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Carter Emmart guides us to the horizon of […]