There’s a worrying trend in online advertising. Many sites are reporting falling click-through rates — and marketers are responding by resorting to ever more aggressive ways of ambushing your attention. We’re launching an initiative to find a better way! TED’s mission is “ideas worth spreading.” You, our audience, are expert at identifying the things that […]
Growing up amidst the violence of inner city Toronto, Gavin Sheppard started The Remix Project to catapult creative young people from troubled neighborhoods into lucrative careers. From presidential meetings to local crime scenes to celebrity parties, Gavin stays focused on finding new ways to keep The Remix Project evolving, and improving young people’s lives. Interactive […]
Matt Greoening poses with attendee Juliana Olsson. Photo: Gene Driskell, INK Conference, Lavasa, 2010 The last two sessions of the INK Conference were among the best of the three-day experience in Lavasa, India. On Sunday, December 12, attendees made it to the conference center bright and early to see talks by artist Raghava KK, The […]
Deepak Chopra on stage at the INK Conference. Photo: Gene Driskell, INK Conference, Lavasa, 2010 The INK Conference‘s second day of talks unearthed brilliant Indian innovators and placed them alongside familiar TED speakers like Adora Svitak and Tom Wujec, as well as internationally known figures like Deepak Chopra. Session 4: Thirteen-year-old author Adora Svitak shared […]
On Thursday, December 10, India’s INK Conference held its inaugural day of talks. Attendees gathered outside the theater doors at Lavasa Conference Center, anticipating three sessions of TED-like ideas. INK did not disappoint, delivering a day’s worth of breathtaking perspective and innovation, both local and global. Session 1: Science writer Anil Ananthaswamy gave an overview […]
Written by Morley. Performed onstage at TEDWomen by Morley and Toshi Reagon. They stood together under a tree in tall grass on TV telling the world their story We will be left to wander and fade away, soldiers came and took our husbands at the break of day We will live on then […]
The INK Conference, held in partnership with TED, begins today in the hillside town of Lavasa, India. Speakers and attendees began arriving last night, and shared an incredible dinner under the stars with the inaugural class of INK Fellows. Among these 20 astonishing thinkers and doers are Mushtaq Ahmed, a self-trained inventor whose pole-climbing devices […]
What I Will by Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat. It is lifeless. I know intimately that skin you are hitting. It was alive once hunted stolen […]
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Via the TED Fellows blog, the gorgeous text that Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo just spoke onstage at TEDWomen. “My name is Iyeoka Ivie Arabomen Okoawo. My father named me after my grandmother. My name means I want to be respected.” She does not know her beauty She thinks her brown skin has too many flaws If […]
The video above is being shown onstage now at TEDWomen and livestreamed around the world to TEDx events. TEDWomen cohost Pat Mitchell, the President of the Paley Center for Media, sits down for an intimate Q&A with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. In this 3-minute video, Sirleaf talks about some of the leadership challenges […]
Just shown onstage: this wonderful slide of the 18 female elected heads of state: President Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina Prime Minister Mari Johanna Kiviniemi, Finland President Borjana Krišto, Bosnia and Herzegovina President Doris Leuthard, Switzerland President Pratibha Patil, India Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Australia President Mary McAleese, Ireland Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany President […]
Adital Ela, founder of S-Sense Design sustainability design studio in Israel, believes in listening. She listens to indigenous philosophy, and incorporates it into sustainable design; when helping a community, she first listens closely to their needs; listening to her body’s inner voice inspires her dancing. Working from a foundation of listening, she bridges different worlds, […]
The new issue of design mind has a great Q&A with today’s TEDTalks speaker, Marcel Dicke, in which he shares his first bug-eating experience: design mind: What were the first insects you ever tried? Marcel Dicke: It was dried, fried termites that Arnold van Huis brought back from Africa, where he’d been working. We were […]
Every year, on December 1, the global community comes together on World AIDS Day to learn more about the virus and lend support to those living with HIV/AIDS.. This year’s theme is “Universal Access and Human Rights.” To increase awareness of the effects of the AIDS virus, and to help understand its spread and possible […]
Yamini Aiyar founded the Accountability Initiative to track and inform the public of what really happens to government money in India. The Initiative also researches the effectiveness of accountability efforts in the country. The group’s work has drawn praise from Indian government officials, and even from President Obama. Taking a cue from her mother, a […]