Celebrating the women of the South Bronx. In the five months since JR made his wish at TED 2011, the global response has been spectacular. We’ve seen photos cover the world’s walls, bridges, streets and windows from Montevideo to the Bronx, from Cape Town to Karachi. People are standing up against violence and homophobia, standing […]
Mikko Hypponen is the chief research officer at F-Secure corporation, where he has led his team through some of the largest computer virus outbreaks in history. On stage at TEDGlobal 2011, he delivered a witty, entertaining, and deadly serious talk about the dangers of internet crime. TED’s Ben Lillie reached him at his office in […]
Ray Anderson, the advocate of sustainability in business, died on Monday at age 77. Share his powerful TEDTalk — in which he explores the personal, ethical and practical motives for building a responsible business: [ted id=547] The company he founded, the carpet manufacturer Interface, “set what may well be the highest sustainability benchmark of any […]
Walid Al-Saqaf developed alkasir, software to circumvent Internet censorship. In this interview, Walid tells us why he’s vowed never to succumb to authoritarian regimes. >>> Walid asks: Can Internet censorship of any particular content be justified under certain circumstances? Explain. Click here to respond on Facebook now! Or join Walid’s live Q&A on TED Conversations August 5, 1pm to […]
In her public art pieces, Candy Chang uses low-tech tools such as chalk, Post-it notes, and stickers to help people make their cities more user-friendly. We sat down with Candy to ask her more … Candy asks: If you could ask one question to all of your neighbors, what would you ask? Click here to respond on […]
Psychologist Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works, studies the nature of pleasure. At TED Global he gave a witty and riveting talk on how knowing the history of an object (or a relationship with a person) can profoundly affect our enjoyment of it or them. After the conference, TED’s Ben Lillie caught up with him to talk […]
On stage at TEDGlobal 2011, Geoffrey West talked about the universal mathematics that govern cities and corporations. Knowing only the population of a city, he can predict the number of patents, the crime rate, the average walking speed and many other features of a city. Before the conference, TED’s Ben Lillie reached him in his […]
[flickr video=5946922159 secret=ef69a57e7b w=525 h=394] What do you do with a giant robot seagull? Fly it into a flock of real seagulls, obviously. This video was shot by Flickr user ldrose two hours after the live demo of SmartBird inside the auditorium at TEDGlobal. Festo engineers brought the bird outside to Holyrood Park, in central […]
Creator of CellBazaar, a virtual marketplace that can be accessed via mobile phone, Kamal Quadir is on to his next mobile phone-based venture, bKash. This new company provides access to financial services through the mobile phone. Kamal divides his time between homes in America and Bangladesh, yet this nationally-recognized artist still squeezes in time to […]
Genevieve von Petzinger’s database of prehistoric geometric shapes in cave art reveals some startling insights. More than mere doodles, the signs used across geological boundaries suggest there may have been a common iconography before people first moved out of Africa. When did people begin graphic communication, and what was its purpose? Genevieve studies these questions […]
Paul Zak, a “neuroeconomist,” studies why we humans like and trust each other. And the answer, he’s found, is the compound oxytocin. In this photo, he’s brought a syringe loaded with the stuff onstage, and he creates a striking visual aid (and an outbreak of love and trust among the backstage crew) by atomizing it […]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/26440850 w=525&h=294] TED Blog exclusive video: US astronaut Ron Garan is currently on board the International Space Station with five colleagues from the US, Russia and Europe. (This is Garan‘s second trip to the ISS.) For TEDGlobal 2011, he recorded a talk sharing the perspective from space and describing the wide range of scientific experiments […]
Nafissa holds her two favorite pins from the Physical Bar Chart. Photo: Robert Leslie / TED One wall of the simulcast room at TEDGlobal 2011 is festooned with what appears to be a massive bar chart. Closer inspection reveals it’s a row of vertical plastic tubes, about 2 meters high, each dispensing buttons of a […]
The Shape What’s to Come ambassadors, with Lakshmi Pratury from the INK Conference, talk in the journaling space — while behind them, visualization artist Sunni Brown doodles their ideas into shape. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED At TEDGlobal this year, we’re meeting three ambassadors of Levi’s Shape What’s to Come campaign — three Indian […]
Erik Hersman, onstage Thursday at TEDGlobal. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED On Wednesday, July 13, a bombing in Mumbai took at least 10 lives. At TEDGlobal, the TED Blog talked with Erik Hersman, one of the cofounders of Ushahidi, an online crisis mapping and response tool — as a new Ushahidi deploys today to […]
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/26377050 w=525&h=294] Coffee Common, the organization of small coffee roasters who are making great coffee at TEDGlobal, made this lovely video of the coffee-making and -serving in Edinburgh. Dive in …