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This holiday season, have that conversation
“I promise you, we can talk to people who disagree with us, and we must.” Celeste Headlee offers 4 steps to have THAT conversation — the toughest talks that we’ve avoided for too long now.
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JD Vance moves to Ohio, the underwater caves of the Bahamas, and the search for ancient lost sites in Peru
JD Vance moves to Ohio, Jill Heinerth takes us to the underwater caves of the Bahamas, and the search for ancient lost sites in Peru … and more news from our always-busy TED speakers.
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Comment(s) of the week, Dec. 21, 2016: You write, speakers respond
Some wonderful comments to choose from this week … so I chose two: I like Amy’s comment for a few reasons. It is in response to a comment that implied that depression could be a good thing, which can stir up many emotions for those people that depression has been anything but good too. When […]
Design
Comment of the week, Dec. 14, 2016: Meet the Galloping Goose Trail
This week’s featured comment comes from Katie Pirquet, who comments on Ryan Gravel‘s TED Talk: How an old loop of railroads is changing the face of a city. Katie’s comment was the perfect follow-up to watching Ryan’s talk, and a great travel tip for anyone who was really interested in Ryan’s idea! It makes me long to visit […]
In Brief
An exercise-powered boat on the Seine, a young eagle hunter, and a test of global education
As usual, the TED community has lots of news to share this week. Below, some highlights. Bike on the Seine … literally. Carlo Ratti Associati unveiled a concept for the Paris Navigating Gym, a boat that would use the energy from passengers’ stationary-bike workouts to propel itself through Paris along the Seine. Aboard the 20-meter-long […]
In Brief
Wireless advances in treating spinal cord damage, morphing wings for aircraft, and the world’s tallest tropical trees
Just a few of the intriguing headlines involving members of the TED community this week: Advances in treating spinal cord damage. In Nature, Grégoire Courtine and a team of scientists announced that they had successfully used a wireless brain-spine interface to help monkeys with spinal cord damage paralyzing one leg regain the ability to walk. […]
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Meet our new Head of Media: Colin Helms
This fall, TED welcomes Colin Helms as its Head of Media. In this leadership team role, Colin will oversee strategy and operations of TED’s core media business, including video production, new format development, distribution, social media, mobile and design. Colin brings more than 20 years of experience in both digital and traditional media content strategy […]
In Brief
How small lies turn into big lies, what everyday objects tell us about inequality, and robots that lend a helping hand during disasters
Just a few of the intriguing headlines involving members of the TED community this week: The cascading effect of small lies. Tali Sharot is the senior author on a paper published in Nature Neuroscience that sheds light on the possible slippery-slope effect of telling small, self-serving lies. Using an fMRI scanning device to monitor the […]
Insights from Our Office
How to react to a bully in a comment thread
Bullies never win — not even in the comments section. TED’s community manager, Katie Pierce, shares these tips on how to react to a comment-thread bully.
Culture
In the lead-up to the presidential election, StoryCorps celebrates #WhoWeAre
If you head to Google.com today, you might notice something interesting underneath the search bar: an invitation to watch a series of animations called #WhoWeAre. A collaboration between StoryCorps and Upworthy, with support from Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation and Delta Airlines, #WhoWeAre is designed to encourage people across the United States to reach out to others who’ve […]
In Brief
The state of women in the workforce, loopholes in London’s alternative stock market, and Mission 2020
As usual, the TED community has lots of news to share this week. Below, some highlights. Why there are still so few women at the top. Leanin.org, the organization created by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to help empower women, released its second annual Women in the Workplace report. The news is not good: Women have […]
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Sylvia Earle introduces President Obama to a newly discovered fish named after him
The United States has long been known for its national parks. But last month, Barack Obama created a single marine reserve that covers significantly more area than all of them, combined. On August 26, 2016, Obama expanded the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument to 582,578 square miles around the northwestern islands of Hawaii. The monument was […]
In Brief
UV light for gene editing, the unfinished business of gender equality, and a new method for producing metals
As usual, the TED community has lots of news to share this week. Below, some highlights. Flip the switch. Sangeeta Bhatia is the senior author on a paper that makes the genome editing power of CRISPR responsive to ultraviolet light. As detailed in academic journal Angewandte Chemie, the researchers developed a system where gene editing […]
TEDWomen
5 talks for Women’s Equality Day
Today marks the 45th anniversary of Women’s Equality Day, which was designated in 1971 to celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in 1920. In commemoration of that milestone, and the miles we still have to go, here are five TEDTalks from past TEDWomen conferences about the state of […]
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Boyd Varty on Nelson Mandela and tracking your life’s purpose
December 5, 2013, was one of the most memorable days at TEDWomen — and everywhere else in the world, too. The world lost one of its great leaders, Nelson Mandela, and I will never forget the way we heard the news at the TEDWomen gathering in San Francisco. A young South African, Boyd Varty, was […]
In Brief
Forecasting crime in Rio de Janeiro, a new Marvel comic, and an Airbnb to rejuvenate a rural community
The TED community has been very busy over the past few weeks. Below, some newsy highlights. Crime forecasting in Rio. Before the 2016 Olympic Games, worries ran high that crime in Rio might affect the mega-event; one reported attack at the Games (which actually might not have happened) grabbed headlines around the world during the […]