Environment
Someone who WON'T be coming to TED
Apparently Katrina was God’s punishment on a sinful New Orleans. I guess that would explain all those tsunami deaths among those sinful people in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India too…
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Burt Rutan, space cowboy, to speak at TED2006
TEDsters: Prepare to be transported. Burt Rutan, the legendary aircraft designer, will thrill us this February in Monterey, with his plans to make space travel a reality. Rutan, who won the $10M X-Prize for SpaceShipOne — the first private craft to reach space — has now partnered with Virgin Galactic (an offshoot of Virgin Atlantic) […]
Culture
TED Book Club: Everything Bad is Good For You
Steven Johnson (TED2003) has wowed us at TED in the past, and his books never fail to intrigue and delight. His latest, Everything Bad is Good for You offers a provocative new lens through which to ponder the impact of modern culture. General assumptions among the cognoscenti: (1) Mass culture is dumbing us down (2) […]
Art
Web comics? NYT says "Ick." TED says "Slick!"
The New York Times may be cranky about the new trend in web comics. (They question the distinction between web comics and animation, and bemoan the “added headaches.”) But those of us who recognize that emerging media are, by definition, works in progress, find the new form fascinating. Our favorite: The Right Number by Scott […]
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The stories that stay: What remains when memory fades
By Brigid Jacoby, with Amanda Lynch November is National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, a time to pause, reflect and continue the conversation on a disease that touches millions of lives around the world. Alzheimer’s isn’t just a medical challenge — it’s an emotional one that reshapes families, identities and the way we connect with one another. […]
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The Audacious Project reveals its 2024 cohort
The Audacious Project supports big ideas to foster change around the world’s most urgent challenges. Today, this innovative funding initiative, housed at TED, is announcing its new cohort of projects for 2024, which are as bold as ever — from an idea to repurpose generic drugs en masse to reach the 300 million people globally […]
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The Way We Work: Practical wisdom for your career
How can you best communicate your work experience, succeed at your current job and secure the future of your career? The Way We Work, a TED original video series, helps business leaders and innovative thinkers answer those questions and more. Whether you’re starting a new job, freelancing or want to future-proof your career, season six […]
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Remembering Karen Bakker
It is with immense sadness that we commemorate the legacy of Dr. Karen Bakker, who died on August 14. Karen’s talk at TED2023, Could an orca give a TED Talk?, demonstrated the beautiful promise afforded by technologies such as AI to help us understand the natural world more deeply. A Guggenheim Fellow and professor at […]
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The Way We Work: Practical workplace wisdom, in partnership with Upwork
Work is a big part of our lives, so how can we bring our best selves to it, and how can we create workplaces that help employees thrive? The Way We Work is a TED original video series where leaders and thinkers offer practical wisdom and insight into how we can adapt and thrive amid […]
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More than $1B catalyzed for 2023 Audacious Projects
Today, The Audacious Project, a collaborative funding initiative housed at TED, announced that more than one billion dollars has been committed to its newest cohort of projects. This is a significant funding milestone in the initiative’s five-year history and comes at a critical time on key issues such as climate change, migrant rights and criminal […]
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“ReThinking with Adam Grant”: New podcast challenges listeners to let go of old ideas and gain new perspective
In response to the overwhelming popularity of Adam Grant’s interviews on the WorkLife podcast, TED Audio Collective has launched a new podcast, ReThinking with Adam Grant, to explore the science of what makes us tick. TED speaker and organizational psychologist Adam Grant will interview today’s most fascinating creators, achievers and leaders to figure out how […]
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In memory of George Ayittey, innovator and champion of a free market in Africa
In June 2007, Ghanaian economist, acclaimed author and scholar George Ayittey delivered an impassioned call from the TEDGlobal stage in Arusha, Tanzania. Railing against a political class he felt had let the continent down for more than half a century, he challenged Africa’s most innovative youth — whom he deemed its “cheetahs” — to take […]
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Introducing The Audacious Project’s new cohort
Communities around the globe are grappling with division and uncertainty. Lasting and transformative change on the world’s most pressing challenges will require us to work together and find common ground. At The Audacious Project, we aspire to be a lever for courageous collaboration, supporting those who are reimagining and rebuilding our systems to better meet […]
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A reintroduction to representation
This is part of an ongoing spotlight created by Black@TED, TED’s employee resource group for staff who identify as Black. This is a reintroduction for anyone, anywhere. There’s a bad habit in desperate need of breaking. A narrow understanding of representation, watered down to mean simply a face or a voice (without weight, like a […]
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“Wisdom’s Home”
This is part of an ongoing spotlight created by Black@TED, TED’s employee resource group for staff who identify as Black. “Wisdom’s Home” by Dian Lofton This piece describes a re-establishing of our own intuition, creating a space for us to reconnect with, reflect on and appreciate what we intuitively know. Making images has been […]
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“The Main Ingredient”
This is part of an ongoing spotlight created by Black@TED, TED’s employee resource group for staff who identify as Black. An ineffable chemistry chose us. Our shades, hues, textures— Breathtaking. Complex polymers form to produce our Melanin Coat of Arms. The beauty of formidable, dominant genes that code our entire experience. Us, the sums […]