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Fun, interesting science? 11 amazing online sources

In today’s TED Talk, Tyler DeWitt makes a fantastic case for a simple idea: make science fun. Educators and writers get caught up in the idea that science needs to be taken seriously, and forget that the best way to get kids interested is to… make it interesting. Too much emphasis on being accurate can lead to lessons that are incomprehensible, ...
Posted February 5, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/05/fun-interesting-science-10-amazing-online-sources

Video: Watch TED's Chris Anderson on 'CBS This Morning'

Early this morning TED's Curator, Chris Anderson, appeared on CBS This Morning to talk about the TED Talks phenomenon, as we get close to a major milestone: one billion views. If you weren't awake, or don't have access to American morning television, watch the segment right here >> And watch for some special announcements around ...
Posted October 27, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/10/27/video-watch-teds-chris-anderson-on-cbs-this-morning

This week’s best questions, ideas and debates from TED Conversations

TED Conversations is a unique space where any member of this community can get feedback on an idea, ask a question that they just can’t get out of their mind, or start a respectful debate on an issue they hold near and dear to their heart. This week on TED Conversations:  a debate on innovation, questioning the line between Science and State, an...
Posted February 14, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/14/this-weeks-best-questions-ideas-and-debates-from-ted-conversations-4

Video: The making of "The power of x"

Watch "The power of x" -- the astonishing, shot-in-one-take opening film for TEDxSummit -- and then see how it was made. This film and photographic experiment set out to prove The Power of X by attempting an Ideas Worth Doing for TEDxSUMMIT. The project fused architecture, dance, math and magic into a bespoke18-meter high triangular mir...
Posted April 19, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/04/19/video-the-making-of-the-power-of-x

Happy birthday, TED Conversations

One year ago today, we launched our platform for long-form conversations: TED Conversations. Since that time the TED Conversation community has held 6,435 Conversations, on topics such as: How can computer models help us build intuition? Where do you use math in your profession? Can we ever know how another person "senses" the world?...
Posted February 16, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/02/16/happy-birthday-ted-conversations

TED2011 Report - Session 6: Knowledge Revolution

In an experimental Session 6, Bill Gates hosted and guest-curated the speaker lineup. David Christian charts our course from the Big Bang to today: "To understand complexity, you have to survey the whole history of the universe. So let's do it." Amina Az-Zubair on the UN Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria: "We are making p...
Posted March 3, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/03/03/ted2011-report-session-6-knowledge-revolution

Happy Pi Day! Two talks to watch as you celebrate

Today is March 14, otherwise known as 3/14. For any math enthusiast, these numbers will certainly set off a bell -- they are the first three digits of Pi. To help you celebrate Pi Day, here are two TED Talks, starting with Daniel Tammet’s “Different ways of knowing.” Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia -- meaning that his per...
Posted March 14, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/happy-pi-day-two-talks-to-watch-as-you-celebrate

Benoit Mandelbrot and his legacy

Benoit Mandelbrot has died, at 85. We're honored to have had him speak at the first TED, in 1984, and at the most recent TED in Long Beach, where he talked about his life's work: studying fractals and roughness, and helping the world understand how fractal math underpins both nature and art. Mandelbrot was, as TED's curator, Chris Anderson, wrot...
Posted October 16, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/10/16/benoit-mandelbrot-and-his-legacy

The Parlor: Session 2 at TED2012

For this session, we're resurrecting the 17th century custom of the salon in order to delight and educate everyone gathered both here at TED -- and at the simulcasts taking place around the world. In this session: Quixotic, a mixed-media theater/performance/aerialist company. See a sneak peek of their stage work >> Andrew Stan...
Posted February 28, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/the-parlor-session-2-at-ted2012

Google awards $2 million to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

From the TED Prize blog: Congratulations to the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and 2008 TED Prize winner Neil Turok on winning $2 million in funding from Google's Project 10^100. Project 10^100 (10 to the 100th power) was a call for ideas to divide a $10 million fund into five pieces that would help as many people as p...
Posted September 24, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/09/24/google-awards-2-million-to-the-african-institute-for-mathematical-sciences-aims

Effective altruism: Peter Singer at TED2013

Moral philosopher Peter Singer starts the last session of TED2013, "A Ripple Effect?" with a shocking video of a 2-year-old girl in China who was hit by a van -- and then a second van -- and ignored by passers-by as she lay dying in an alley. He asks of the audience: Would you have stopped and helped this girl? Not surprisingly, the unanimou...
Posted March 1, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/03/01/effective-altruism-peter-singer-at-ted2013

7 talks for inspiring transformed curriculums

With more colleges shifting courses to the online classroom and high school teachers and students alike expressing a strong desire to move away from rigid, mandated lesson arcs, it’s clear -- classes don’t have to be exactly as they are. Educators across the globe have begun to look at ways of transforming curriculum to suit different kinds of l...
Posted May 9, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/05/09/7-talks-for-inspiring-transformed-curriculums

Coded Meaning: Speakers in Session 8 at TED2013

Communication in 2013 looks so different from what it ever has before. Will technology be the ruin of all that is good and true in language? We don't think so. The speakers in this session explore how the future will bring even greater shifts in how we communicate -- and it may well be for the better. Here, the speakers who appeared in this s...
Posted February 28, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/coded-meaning-speakers-in-session-8-at-ted2013

Solving (for) x: Terry Moore at TED2012

Photo: James Duncan Davidson The last time we heard from Terry Moore, executive director at the Radius Foundation, he challenged us to reexamine a process that most of us have known how to do nearly as long as we could read: tie our shoes. He returns to the TED stage today to share another valuable tidbit on a character we really have kno...
Posted February 28, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/solving-for-x-terry-moore-at-ted2012

When should you settle down?

Who knew equations and graphs could guide your love life? Mathematician Hannah Fry does -- and shares a few formulas for finding The One. When it comes to love, making long-term decisions is a risky business. Sooner or later, most of us decide to leave our carefree bachelor or bachelorette days behind us and settle down. Our wild oats have been...
Posted February 13, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/when-should-you-settle-down

What are we thinking? A recap of the mind-bending talks in session 2 of TED2015

In this session of TED2015, five speakers explored the bounds of perception — from how babies form expectations to how vision is hardly needed to see. Short recaps of these bold talks ... The logic of the young mind. Scientists have to make generalizations on tiny amounts of data – and so do babies. Laura Schulz investigates the young min...
Posted March 17, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/03/17/what-are-we-thinking-a-recap-of-the-mind-bending-talks-in-session-2-of-ted2015

Looking at the intersections: John Maeda at TEDGlobal 2012

When he was a child, John Maeda's father came to a parent-teacher meeting and was told that his son was good at math and art. His father nodded. The next day, at his tofu store, his father told a customer that his son was good at ... math. "That's stuck with me all my life," Maeda says. "Why wasn't art okay?" Maeda is here today to talk a...
Posted June 28, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/06/28/looking-at-the-intersections-john-maeda-at-tedglobal-2012

From the comments: Why school is often the only stable place for young people

Here's a thoughtful comment from we received from community member Amy Daniels in response to the late Rita Pierson's TED Talk, Every kid needs a champion: "A wise math teacher (a sage, and one of the reasons I teach the way I teach ... despite having been absolutely rotten at her subject!) once pointed out to us that school has become the only...
Posted May 14, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/from-the-comments-why-school-is-often-the-only-stable-place-for-young-people

8 TED Talks about the wonders of patterns

Arthur Benjamin is perhaps the world's leading mathemagician and, in today's talk, he aims to show the creativity, beauty and wonder that is as much a part of math as logic. Stepping onto the TEDGlobal 2013 stage, Benjamin takes us on a spirited tour of the Fibonacci numbers, where the patterns to be found go far beyond simply adding two con...
Posted November 8, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/11/08/8-ted-talks-about-patterns

10 talks on creatures from the deep

Imagine a squid so big that, when sprawled out, it is the size of a two-story house. Edith Widder has now seen this enormous ocean creature, once the stuff of nautical legend, six times. In today’s talk, Widder shares how we now have filmed proof of the giant squid’s existence, thanks to a mission conducted by herself, Tsunemi Kubodera and St...
Posted March 5, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/03/05/9-talks-on-creatures-from-the-deep

Gallery: Maira Kalman's girls standing on lawns

Maira Kalman is an artist who effortlessly embodies whimsy and gravitas. Known for her children’s books and New Yorker covers, of late she’s been painting up a storm with beloved children’s author Lemony Snicket, also known as Daniel Handler. In May 2014 the pair published the book Girls Standing on Lawns, a collection of Kalman’s paintings base...
Posted May 22, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-maira-kalmans-girls-standing-on-lawns

In Short: What healthcare can learn from the Cheesecake Factory, and why you’ll have to play Beck’s next album

Enjoy these fascinating reads from across the internet: What can the healthcare system learn from chain restaurants like the Cheesecake Factory, Pizza Hut and Red Lobster? Atul Gawande explores. [New Yorker] Watch Atul’s brilliant talk from TED2012, “How do we heal medicine?” . In 2009, American students ranked 23rd in the world in sc...
Posted August 9, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/08/09/in-short-what-healthcare-can-learn-from-the-cheesecake-factory-and-why-youll-have-to-play-becks-next-album

There's no app for good teaching

8 ways to think about tech in ways that actually improve the classroom. Bringing technology into the classroom often winds up an awkward mash-up between the laws of Murphy and Moore: What can go wrong, will -- only faster. It's a multi-headed challenge: Teachers need to connect with classrooms filled with distinct individuals. We all want ...
Posted September 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/theres-no-app-for-good-teaching

Playlist: To infinity and beyond

(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks Monday!) The wonderful thing about the universe is not just how big it is, but how every time we look into it we find something new and extraordinary. Here are four talks about the vastness of space, a...
Posted August 26, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/08/26/playlist-to-infinity-and-beyond

Sweaty teachers, storm-chasing and a surprise appearance from Ashton Kutcher: A recap of sessions 2 and 3 at TEDYouth

By Thu-Huong Ha and Kate Torgovnick The morning session of TEDYouth "The Spark" was incredible. But in many ways it was just an appetizer. In the afternoon, Sessions 2 and 3 delivered talks on topics ranging from how to make an Easy Bake Oven gender-neutral to the mathematics of Pixar animation to the familial structures of elephants. And it ...
Posted November 16, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/11/16/sweaty-teachers-storm-chasing-and-a-surprise-appearance-from-ashton-kutcher-a-recap-of-sessions-2-and-3-at-tedyouth

On our reading list: Nate Silver’s new book The Signal and the Noise

One might ask Nate Silver, the data whiz behind FiveThirtyEight.com, which shot to prominence after providing eerily accurate forecasts of the 2008 election, what makes for good predictions. His answer will come as a surprise. In his new book, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail But Some Don’t, Silver explains the “prediction ...
Posted September 27, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/09/27/on-our-reading-list-nate-silvers-new-book-the-signal-and-the-noise

New TED Book: Save Our Science

It is not nearly enough for students to simply churn out answers from memory. No, in our ever-changing time, they need to be able to think expansively and creatively. In order to solve the complex problems of tomorrow, the traditional academic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic must be replaced with creativity, curiosity, critical thinki...
Posted January 31, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/31/new-ted-book-save-our-science

A wind-powered toy to clear land mines? A fascinating TEDx talk

Massoud Hassani is the creator is the Mine Kafon, a tumbleweed-like apparatus that uses wind gusts to roam through land mine-filled areas and detonate hidden mines as it goes. Born from the designs of the wind-powered toys that Hassani and his brother sent tumbling in the desert outside of Kabul as children, the Mine Kafon almost looks like a...
Posted January 9, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/09/a-wind-powered-toy-to-clear-land-mines-a-fascinating-tedx-talk

The multiverse in three parts: Brian Greene at TED2012

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Superstring theorist and physicist and the co-founder of the World Science Festival, Brian Greene splits his visually rich, action-packed talk into three distinct sections, all in the name of convincing us of the existence of the multiverse, the possibility that way beyond the earth, the milky way, we'll find ...
Posted February 28, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/the-multiverse-in-three-parts-brian-greene-at-ted2012

Teachers open up about the (mostly lousy) economics of their dream job

Much of the recent discussion about inequality has focused on the very rich (the 0.01%) or the very poor (the bottom billion or so). But what about those people who are somewhere in the middle? Through the TED-Ed network, we asked 17 public school teachers working in locations from Kildare to Kathmandu, Johannesburg to Oslo, to tell us wha...
Posted June 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/teachers-open-up-about-the-mostly-lousy-economics-of-their-dream-job
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