With the launch of the Charter for Compassion, it’s the TED Blog’s pleasure to unveil Karen Armstrong‘s responses to the top 10 questions asked and voted on by the TED and Reddit community. (See all the questions users asked.) She covers the nature of compassion, the history of the conflict in the Middle East, and […]
It’s been four days since TEDIndia ended, and the attendees have been making their way home to cities across India and around the world. Thanks to all who’ve spent some of the travel time writing down their thoughts on this extraordinary past week. TED Fellow Dina Mehta rounded up her TEDIndia in tweets — a […]
In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine — and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2009, July 2009, Oxford, UK. Duration: 3:40) Watch Edward Burtynsky’s talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment […]
In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team — one of thousands who contributed — taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule. (Recorded at TEDGlobal University 2009, July 2009, Oxford, […]
At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response. (Recorded at TEDGlobal University 2009, July 2009, Oxford, UK. Duration: 3:06) Watch Cameron Sinclair’s talk on TED.com, where you […]
“Within You, Without You,” the final session of TEDIndia, rings in with a drumbeat — the rich, propulsive stylings of Sivamani. He combines the sounds of a variety of percussive instruments with a recurring motif: water. Dipping instruments in water as he plays them, the instruments take on the character of the life-giving substance that […]
Bharath (his full name) was the local producer of TEDIndia, a calm authority figure in the middle of a large, international, multilingual crew. After the conference wrapped on Saturday afternoon, he had time to talk about the massive job of getting TEDIndia up and running. How did you get connected with TEDIndia? I’m basically a […]
Our gavel-to-gavel coverage of TEDIndia comes from an extraordinary team. Matthew Trost, Shanna Carpenter and Jenny Zurawell have been blogging and live-tweeting conference proceedings as they happen. Emily McManus provided backstage reports. Leigh Ferreira led the social-media effort on Twitter and Facebook, engaging the worldwide community, responding to viewer questions and sharing information so that […]
Photo: TEDIndia 2009. Mysore, India, November 4-7, 2009. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson Here’s what we learned from the the second-to-last session of TEDIndia, “Learning to Learn”: Sashwati Banerjee brings greetings from the longest street in the world: Sesame Street. Director of Sesame Workshop, Sashwati Banerjee takes the stage after a fun dialogue between […]
Abhay Deol at TEDIndia, Session 7, “Power of Stories,” November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson Beginning the last session of the day, Lakshmi Pratury takes the stage and explains that this theme was chosen because she believes that stories are extremely powerful. She says that the TEDIndia team wanted […]
Photo: Jib Ellison at TEDIndia, Session 6, “Green and Blue,” November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson “If you want to change the world, take something powerful and nudge it,” said Chris Anderson at the dawn of Session 6. For speakers in “Green and Blue,” the environment is the object […]
As Lakshmi announced from stage in Session 6, the TEDIndia gift bag, made by Rickshaw Bagworks, was held up in customs coming in to India for the conference. But at midnight last night, they cleared. (Whew.) This morning we walked into the TED staff room to find a beaming Mark Dwight (left), the head of […]
Kavita Ramdas at TEDIndia, Session 5, “Redesigning Community,” November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson “Redesigning Community” was a diverse, but powerful, session. Speakers tackled the literal aspects of design, as well as the more abstract idea of social redesign. As the session progressed, talks became more and more emotionally […]
Photo: Sendhil Mullainathan at TEDIndia, Session 4, “Reinventing Development,” November 6, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson Session 4 of TEDIndia, “Reinventing Development,” brought together some of the most innovative minds working in India’s development sector. Here’s what they told us: Sendhil Mullainathan looks at a frustrating issue in public health […]
Photo: Pranav Mistry at TEDIndia, Session 3, “Wonder. Wonders.” November 5, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson A round-up of Session 3 from TEDIndia: Chris Anderson opens up the session reminding the audience of TED’s purpose: to re-awaken wonder. The TED experience is about channeling curiosity, which develops into wonder. Pawan […]
Dr. R.A Mashelkar at TEDIndia, Session 2, “Not Business as Usual,” November 5, 2009, in Mysore, India. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson A round-up from the second session of the first-ever TEDIndia: Lakshmi Pratury begins Session 2 by asking, “Why was TED destined to come to India?” She says it’s because 18 is a […]