TED Fellows Program
The TED Fellows program is a global network of 300 innovators and trailblazers from a spectrum of disciplines. Every year, we look for 40 additional amazing change-makers to join the pack. Plug into this vibrant community by applying to be a Fellow, sponsoring the program or exploring their stories of growth and impact.
In this deeply personal talk, visual artist -- LaToya Ruby Frazer, gives us a glimpse of life in Braddock, PA. Her photos tell the tale of inequality, health care and environmental racism and the impact the industrial town has had on her life and the lives of those close to her.
Jedidah Isler is an astrophysicist and TED Fellow who has fallen deep into the supermassive hyperactive black holes of our universe! In her incredible talk, she introduces us to objects that can be 1 to 10 billion times the mass of the sun — and which shoot powerful jet streams of particles in our direction. Learn more from her talk!
Synthetic biologist and TED Fellow Tal Danino imagines how bacteria can begin to support cancer detection. Using quorum sensing, can bacteria revolutionize the way patients are diagnosed? Learn more from Tal's talk!
Photographer, activist, and TED Fellow Boniface Mwangi's plans to protest against corruption in Kenya involved support from his friends. But when the moment came...he stood alone. Watch his courageous story.
In this charming talk, the TED Senior Fellow describes some of his official work to make sure humans are prepared for life in deep space ... and shares a fascinating art project in which he challenged people worldwide to design homes we might live in there.
As a blogger, flimmaker, and butcher, Bassam Tarriq sheds light on the richness of the Muslim culture in his TED talk. In this charming talk, he shares clips from his film "These Birds Walk" and images from his tour of 30 mosques in 30 days — and reminds us to consider the beautiful complexity within us all.
Watch Talks by TED Fellows
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Physical therapy is boring -- play a game instead
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The dinosaur hunter: TED Fellow Nizar Ibrahim searches for lost worlds
Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim poses with the footprint of a predatory dinosaur in southeastern Morocco, near the Algerian border. Photo: Robert Loveridge Like many kids, Germ...
Physical therapy is boring — play a game instead: Cosmin Mihalu
Physical therapy can be painful, confusing and boring. Romanian physical therapy entrepreneur Cosmin Mihaiu has set out to change all that. In this talk, filmed at TED2015, he ...
Avoiding the hunger season: Computational biologist Laura Boykin is working to save African cassava from whiteflies
Laura Boykin, right, and fellow researcher Donald Kachigamba, at left, inspect African whiteflies feeding on cassava leaves at a farm near Namulonge, Uganda. While scientists o...
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