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 […]
(Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) On understanding happiness, Daniel Kahneman says we must distinguish between “the experiencing self” and “the remembering self.” (Photo credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson) Esther Duflo: “We cannot helicopter people out of poverty.” (Photo credit: TED / Richard Lewis) David Cameron says a post-bureaucratic world is emerging. Its […]
As you can see above, the lobby of the Terrace Theater is big. To bring it down in scale, and create more intimacy and connection for attendees, this year we divided the lobby and Plaza into nine areas we call “social spaces.” We’ll profile or photoblog each social space on the TED Blog. One feature […]
A detail from the TED2010 stage — full reveal at 11am. We can. Not. Wait. Photo: TED / James Duncan Davidson