Yesterday began the Mission Blue Voyage — a first-of-its-kind conference hosted by TED. Marine scientists, deep-sea explorers, tech innovators, policy makers and cultural icons will come aboard the National Geographic Endeavor and sail to the Galapagos Islands. For four days, they’ll brainstorm how to make Sylvia Earle‘s TED Prize wish — to protect and restore […]
Solar Impulse, the solar airplane that Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard described in his captivating talk at TEDGlobal 2009, took off successfully this morning from Payerne airfield, in Western Switzerland, on its maiden flight. The aircraft (which has a wingspan of 63.40 meters but a weight of only 1600 kg and a speed at takeoff of […]
In her TED 2007 talk, director Deborah Scranton detailed how she put cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in Iraq to realize her acclaimed “The War Tapes” documentary. For her new film, “Earth Made of Glass“, which will premiere on April 26th at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York (Film’s trailer – Facebook […]
Jesse Schell: When games invade real life Games are invading the real world — and the runaway popularity of Farmville and Guitar Hero is just the beginning, says Jesse Schell. At the DICE Summit, he makes a startling prediction: a future where 1-ups and experience points break “out of the box” and into every part […]
In an incisive talk at TEDGlobal 2009 in Oxford, investigative journalist Misha Glenny (author of McMafia) described the global shadow economy and crime networks in minute details. After his talk, several attendees asked TED European director Bruno Giussani to invite Misha back to discuss not only the results of his investigations and research, but […]
Patsy Rodenburg: Why I do theater Patsy Rodenburg says the world needs actors more than ever. In this intimate talk at Michael Howard Studios, she tells the story of a profound encounter that reveals the deeper role theater can play in people’s lives. Watch Patsy Rodenburg’s talk >>
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In his 2010 TEDTalk, Alan Siegel called for a simple, sensible redesign of legal paperwork — to make it intelligible to the rest of us. Here’s one of the redesigned documents he showed: a sample credit card agreement which is easy to understand and, dare we say, pretty? Download the PDF >>
Douglas Adams: Parrots, the universe and everything Blind river dolphins, reclusive lemurs, a parrot as fearless as it is lovelorn … Douglas Adams’ close encounters with these rare and unusual animals reveal that evolution, ever ingenious, can be fickle too — in a University of California talk that sparkles with his trademark satiric wit. Watch […]
The Abreu Fellows are in the running for a $250K grant from Pepsi. You can vote for them once a day … all month. The Abreu Fellows program is a project of Jose Abreu’s 2009 TED Prize wish — to teach children around the world to play music using El Sistema (“the system”), a proven […]
At TED2010, Chef Dan Barber drew a standing ovation with his unlikely love story about fish: sustainably farmed, outrageously delicious fish, which offers a model for the future of food production. A key figure in the farm-to-table movement, Dan occupies an unusual space as chef-scholar: His op/eds appear regularly in The New York Times and […]
From left: Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localization for Mozilla; Leonard Chien, Director, Lingua Project for Global Voices; June Cohen, Executive Producer of TED Media. TED’s June Cohen led a panel on social translation at South by Southwest this weekend. The panel — run as a tight, advice-dense conversation — brought together leaders from three of […]
Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!) At the Web 2.0 Expo, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk gives a shot in the arm to dreamers and up-and-comers who face self-doubt. The Internet has made the formula for success simpler than ever, he argues. So there’s now no excuse not to do what makes you happy. Watch […]
The awesome LA band Ozomatli rocked TED’s Wednesday night block party in Long Beach last month — check out our exclusive photos from the street (and see many more photos here). You can stream Ozomatli’s new single, “It’s Only Paper,” from their upcoming album Fire Away (due out April 20). Spinner.com calls the single a […]
Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of “Stop” and “Yield” — and asks drivers to be polite. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010, in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 4:27) Watch Gary Lauder’s […]
Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine In this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms they’re made of. This accessible, enchanting conversation in physics reveals a teeming nano-world that’s just plain fun to imagine. Watch […]