TED Fellows Program

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.

This month's Question Worth Asking challenges us to think about what life will be like in the future. In his poem, THE TRANSHUMANIST’S LAMENT or TOO MANY RIVERS, NOT ENOUGH LAKES or OH, FUTURE — YOU SO CRAZY, TED Fellow Ben Burke's future self explains!

We are thrilled to announce the new class of Fellows for TED2015. These 21 game-changing thinkers represent 15 countries—including, for the first time in our program, Vietnam, Romania and Tunisia. They work across disciplines, at the forefront of their fields. They include a South African physicist using lasers to target HIV and cancer; a German/Moroccan paleontologist who discovered the first semi-aquatic dinosaur, the spinosaurus; a Vietnamese entrepreneur who is helping rice farmers use biowaste to earn a living growing mushrooms; and many more.

Medical inventor and TED Fellow, Joe Landolina, invents VETI-GEL-- a plant-based gel that rapidly stops traumatic bleeding.

Francis de los Reyes's talk explores his "unhealthy obsession with toilets" and how his studies have led him to understand the "culture of crap" that begs the question-- doesn't everyone deserve a safe place to go?