A great TED tidbit we missed the first time around: In TIME Magazine last month, Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell (TED04) wrote a tribute to Freakonomics author Steven Levitt (TED04, TEDGlobal), who was honored as one of the TIME 100. It starts like this: Not long after Freakonomics came out, Steven Levitt and I had […]
It’s a great month for TED music in New York. It seems all our favorites will be coming through… Starting this Saturday June 10 with multi-faceted singer-songwriter Stew (TED2006), who’ll perform at Joe’s Pub. We’re hoping for a preview of his new musical, Passing Strange, which premieres next season at the Berkeley Rep and NY’s […]
We were pleased to see that several of the ads we highlighted at TED2006 and TEDGlobal were awarded Clios last night, in Miami. The Honda ads, Choir and Impossible Dream, took the Grand Clio, and gold awards went to Guinness noitulovE (that’s “evolution,” backwards), Sony Bouncy Balls, and Sony PSP A Day in the Life. […]
Yes, I know there are three, big, open wishes out there going through the wish granting process, but it’s time to start thinking about next year. Only two months left to get in nominations for the 2007 TED Prize winners. We’re looking for visionaries that can make a difference in the world and mobilize the […]
Last summer at TEDGlobal, Sasa Vucinic explained in quiet tones his maverick idea: He wanted to sell “free-press bonds.”. “If investors are willing to fund the US deficit, why wouldn’t investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?” Vucinic asked. (BBC article on that talk) Yesterday, he put that thought to the test. As TEDGlobal […]
A big thanks to TEDster Jim Young, who spotted this cup in a Dallas Starbucks. We’re curious how far Chris’s idea might spread… let us know if it turns up near you!
Documentary star Al Gore made a surprise appearance along with his wife Tipper at the special Thursday afternoon TEDScreening of An Inconvenient Truth, the new Davis Guggenheim film about Gore’s 30 year odyssey to bring global warming to the world’s attention and convince us to take action. Producer Lawrence Bender and TED Curator Chris Anderson […]
100 years and two days after the Great Quake of 1906, and 12 hours of sunshine following a month and a half of rain, about 100 TEDsters from the Bay Area came together last night to "cocktail and tasty bits" with 2006 TEDPrize Winner Cameron Sinclair, Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity. Joining him were […]
Josh Rushing, the American star of 2006 TEDPrize winner Jehane Noujaim‘s documentary Control Room has gone and done something very unexpected: he quit the U.S. Military after 14 years to join the English language Al-Jazeera International news station as on-air talent. As you may recall from the film, former marine Rushing, one of the U.S. […]
Finally the story can be told…How a dedicated team of intrepid writers, designers, and Candy Building Architects stayed up all night to bring you this year’s TED wrap-up. A quick shout out and thank you to writers David Hornik, Nicholas Baker, and John (did you see the man in a gorilla suit?) Boyden; PhotoShop gurus […]
Over the last month, we’ve made mention of many TED Moments. Everyone seems to remember different details, different conversations… But leave it to Rives, slam-poet in residence at TED2006, to take it to an entirely different level … (Note: scroll down in his blog to March 5th)
The brain is incredible. The human capacity for perception, reason, logic — the sheer processing power inside our skulls — is, well, mind-boggling. But as incredible an organ as is the human brain, it is fallible. Even the "geniuses" we’ll hear from at TED2007 have imperfect brains. Take, for example, human memory — we all […]
Several weeks later, we find we’re still intrigued by what was said and done and felt during those four days in Monterey. And it seems we’re not the only ones. Writing in his TrueTalk blog, Tom Guarriello notes: “A week after returning home from TED2006, I find myself returning to ideas, experiences and people more […]
“We lead off with Ethel, an innovative string quartet, who sound something like Bartok leading a jug band of super-hip Brooklynites… and I mean that in a good way.” — Ethan Zuckerman
Last week, we posted an entry called Sharing TED Moments, recollecting the most magical Monterey moments. The post drew some great anecdotes from TEDsters, including: Diego Rodriguez: Having lunch with Burt Rutan. Seeing the look of surprise on his face when I told him that he was one of my inspirations when I was a […]
I don’t know about you, but my mind is simply abuzz with the sights, sounds, emotions, and ideas I encountered at TED 2006. I can’t wait for the TED DVD to arrive so that I can go back and listen to the words of Sir Ken Robinson, hear the music of Thomas Dolby, and soak […]