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Fun and nerdy field trips: TEDx Adventures take to the streets

This week, we've launched a new blog: TEDx Innovations. It's a space for TEDx organizers to share their passion and ingenuity, to reveal the things they're trying at their events and the ways they're evolving this global platform before our eyes. Bookmark it and look for lots more to come. Mastering the physics behind sailing in the Bosto...
Posted July 15, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/07/15/fun-and-nerdy-field-trips-tedx-adventures-take-to-the-streets

The secret to making Zoom meetings meaningful for you and your coworkers

Many of us are now working at home due to the pandemic. To our surprise, we’re seeing our coworkers more than ever before -- but as tiny heads on our laptops in video meetings. Instead of bringing us closer together, all this online togetherness can sometimes make us feel miles apart, literally and emotionally. On a recent episode of his TED...
Posted April 20, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/the-secret-to-making-zoom-meetings-meaningful-for-you-and-your-coworkers

In Case You Missed It: Big moments from day 2 of TED2017

On day two of TED2017, three sessions of talks -- one on Our robotic overlords, the next on The human response and the final on Health, life and love. Below, some key moments from it all. A TED Talk from ... the Pope. For weeks, we’ve teased a “surprise guest” on the program, a mysterious "world figure" with a unique message. Tonight, we reve...
Posted April 26, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/04/26/in-case-you-missed-it-big-moments-from-day-2-of-ted2017

Our strange relationship to screens: Performance artist Lars Jan explores our hyper-networked world

Lars Jan, a TED Fellow, creates multimedia performances that probe the ubiquity of screens and propaganda in our culture. Today, his show ABACUS—billed as "a multimedia talking tour of our hyper-networked world to come"—opens at BAM's Fisher Fishman Space in Brooklyn, New York. It's a show delivered by his invented persona, Paul Abacus, abou...
Posted November 4, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/11/04/fellows-friday-with-lars-jan

X Marks the Spot: A Mandela Day design project, plus this week's TEDx Talks

This week, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday. For the participants of TEDxSoweto -- which took place in April in Johannesburg, South Africa -- it was time to publish the results of a campaign started at the event. During the event, a group of volunteers -- including many designers -- wondered how they could mark Mandela’s b...
Posted July 19, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/07/19/x-marks-the-spot-a-mandela-day-design-project-plus-this-weeks-tedx-talks

The shoulders of giants: Joshua Klein, on <em>The Link</em>

What’s next for Joshua Klein, the man who built a vending machine for crows? The versatile hacker is the new host of the National Geographic show The Link, in which he travels the world to research and reveal the origins of some of history’s most important technological innovations, like Greek fire and the Chinese long sword. The show premie...
Posted June 8, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/06/08/the-shoulders-of-giants-joshua-klein-on-the-link

Chris Anderson answers questions like “What’s the fairest criticism of TED”?

Earlier today, TED curator Chris Anderson sat down for an online Q&amp;A with the readers of Gizmodo.com. They asked a wide variety of questions, from “What’s your favorite TEDTalk of all time?” to “What will TED look like in 10 years?” Here, some highlights pulled from the discussion. What's your favorite TED talk of all time? Chris: Hard...
Posted October 24, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/10/24/chris-anderson-answers-questions-like-whats-the-fairest-criticism-of-ted

Openness about injuries: Q&A with Joshua Prager

Until he was 19, Joshua Prager wanted to play professional baseball or be a doctor. After 19, he was just glad he could walk. For eight years Prager was a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee for his long-form pieces investigating historical secrets. In his talk at TED@New York -- one of t...
Posted July 11, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/openness-about-injuries-qa-with-joshua-prager

No more boring interviews: Q&A with Randy Cohen

In an interview you should ask a movie star about her movies, an author about his books, a musician about her latest album. But Randy Cohen, the original New York Times Ethicist, hopes to bypass all those boring questions on his radio show "Person Place Thing" and find out what weird passions people of note are really harboring. In a talk at...
Posted July 13, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/07/13/no-more-boring-interviews-qa-with-randy-cohen

8 fascinating talks about Mars, including a new one from Bill Nye the Science Guy

In today’s thrilling TED-Ed lesson, Bill Nye the Science Guy admits that he has S.O.D., otherwise known as Sundial Obsessive Disorder. But there is a good reason for it -- a sundial helped Nye’s father escape from a prison camp in China during World War II, launching a lifelong obsession that Nye eventually picked up himself. At an event s...
Posted October 16, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/10/16/8-fascinating-talks-about-mars-including-a-new-one-from-bill-nye-the-science-guy

How soon is now?: Fellows Friday with Alicia Eggert

Conceptual artist Alicia Eggert uses words as found objects in her sculptural art -- a body of work that serves as an ongoing investigation of time. Here, she tells us about taking her neon piece "You are (on) an island" to various locations in the world, shares how childhood experiences in South Africa sparked her fascination with time, and rev...
Posted April 26, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/04/26/how-soon-is-now-fellows-friday-with-alicia-eggert

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 that involve highly unusual instruments

Music comes in all shapes and sizes, as these talks illustrate. From an electric drum suit called "thunderwear" to an ancient stringed wheel to an arresting rare organ, the instruments featured in these talks reshape our soundscape and offer inspiration in the cacophonous world around us. David Holt plays mountain music In this amiable t...
Posted January 3, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/03/10-talks-that-involve-highly-unusual-instruments

Filmmaker Jen Brea gets a Sundance fellowship, Pamela Ronald makes the case for engineered rice, and more

Behold, your recap of TED-related news: A new Sundance grant helps indie films get seen. Making a film is hard enough -- but getting the film seen by an audience can be just as difficult, especially in this era of non-stop media shifts. To help, Sundance just launched the Creative Distribution Fellowship -- and among the first recipients ...
Posted May 19, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/05/19/filmmaker-jen-brea-gets-a-sundance-fellowship-pamela-ronald-makes-the-case-for-engineered-rice-and-more

Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch, a musical trip down the Nile, plus a tasty menu á la TED

As usual, the TED community has been very busy over the past week. Below, a few newsy highlights. Overlooked treasures. A bed, a watch, a shoe: all mundane items unappreciated in the moment. But through history’s eyes, they gain new meaning. In this beautiful “Portraits in Creativity” documentary, Maira Kalman talks about curating the exhib...
Posted February 26, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/02/26/ted-community-news-2-26-15

9 TED Talks guaranteed to give you wanderlust

Ah, wanderlust. Mild symptoms include obsessive airfare tracking and uncontrollable daydreaming about tropical beaches during conference calls. Severe cases can cause reasonable people to cash out their 401(k) to buy a camper van and hit the open road. These 9 TED Talks are guaranteed to ignite your need for travel. As a precautionary mea...
Posted June 15, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/06/15/9-ted-talks-guaranteed-to-give-you-wanderlust

TED Prize, by the numbers

A few numbers to keep in mind: 3, 31, and 1 million. That’s because nominations for the 2016 TED Prize are being accepted through the end of the day on March 31, 2015. You have until then to nominate a mentor, a co-worker or a visionary leader whose work you admire from afar for this prestigious prize, which brings with it $1 million for a w...
Posted February 18, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/02/18/ted-prize-by-the-numbers

The Snowdenbot's next adventure?

Edward Snowden hasn’t forgotten about the remote presence robot that allowed him to speak on the TED2014 stage and roam the halls of the conference, chatting with attendees. While in exile in Russia, Snowden has apparently used this system, affectionately dubbed the “Snowdenbot,” on a semi-regular basis. Andy Greenberg writes in Wired abo...
Posted June 20, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/06/20/edward-snowden-still-using-the-telepresence-robot-he-drove-at-ted2014

What are Steve Case, Hans Rosling and Brandon Boyd’s favorite TED Talks?

Over the past week, 21 amazing names in the worlds of technology, entertainment and design have curated lists of their favorite TED Talks, to celebrate TED’s billionth video view. The talks they’ve selected have run the gamut from Ben Affleck, who loved Bryan Stevenson’s “We need to talk about an injustice” among others, to Alexis Ohanian of Red...
Posted November 21, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/11/21/what-are-steve-case-hans-rosling-and-brandon-boyds-favorite-ted-talks

5 new technologies that help disabled and bedridden people experience the world again

Henry Evans is an enthusiastic world traveler. In the past year, he has visited Vermillion, South Dakota; Sydney, Australia; and Qusar, Azerbaijan. He’s explored halls of the Smithsonian, gone scuba diving in California, and flown over Bora Bora. He is in the midst of finagling a trip to space. Evans, it should be noted, does all this trav...
Posted May 7, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/05/07/5-telepresence-technologies-that-have-emerged-since-henry-evans-ted-talk

From Arab sci-fi to war zone survival tips: Highlights from TED@Doha

This spring, TED headed on the road, visiting 14 cities across six continents on the hunt for untapped talent. The idea behind the sweeping search: to let you, the TED community, weigh in and vote on which speakers you’d like to see ascend the stage at TED2013. After holding one-night salons in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Doha, Johannesburg, Londo...
Posted July 19, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/07/19/from-arab-sci-fi-to-war-zone-survival-tips-highlights-from-teddoha

The brain is a Swiss Army knife: Nancy Kanwisher at TED2014

Watch this talk on TED.com Onstage at TED, Nancy Kanwisher starts by telling us one of the most surprising results from recent neuroscience discoveries: The brain is not a general-purpose processor, but a collection of specialized components, "collectively building up who we are as human beings and thinkers." Imagine, she says, walking...
Posted March 19, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/19/the-brain-is-a-swiss-army-knife-nancy-kanwisher-at-ted2014

How I welcomed surprise and became a “millionaire”: Q&A with Tania Luna

Tania Luna, the CEO of SurpriseIndustries.com and a psychology instructor at Hunter College in New York, came to the United States as a 6-year-old immigrant from Ukraine. While she and her family thought that they were staying at a hotel when they first arrived in New York, upon returning years later, they discovered that it was actually a h...
Posted July 12, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/07/12/how-i-welcomed-surprise-into-my-life-and-became-a-millionaire-qa-with-tania-luna

A new mission to mobilize 2 million women in US politics ... and more TED news

TED2019 may be past, but the TED community is busy as ever. Below, a few highlights. Amplifying 2 million women across the U.S. Activist Ai-jen Poo, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza and Planned Parenthood past president Cecile Richards have joined forces to launch Supermajority, which aims to train 2 million women in the United S...
Posted May 8, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/05/08/a-new-mission-to-mobilize-2-million-women-in-us-politics-and-more-ted-news

TED gets the SNL treatment, a 3-D printed exoskeleton, and a look at the meaning of ‘yep’ versus ‘yup’

The members of the TED community have been very busy over the past two weeks. Below, news briefs on what a few have been up to. We’ll start with a few funny bits, and work our way down from there. Talks, courtesy of SNL. We were highly amused to see that Saturday Night Live considered a sketch called “DEF TED Talks Jam” last weekend. Check i...
Posted November 25, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/11/25/def-ted-talks-jam-and-community-news-from-november-24-2014

"I beat Bobby Riggs because I respected him": Billie Jean King talks the Battle of the Sexes at TEDWomen 2015

"Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him," says Billie Jean King. "That’s one of the reasons I beat him — because I respected him." King's Q&amp;A on the TEDWomen stage begins with a discussion of one of the greatest sports moments of all time: the Battle of the Sexes, a tennis match between King and Riggs, which she won on Sept. ...
Posted May 29, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/05/29/billie-jean-king-on-the-battle-of-the-sexes-at-tedwomen-2015

LOL is its own language: Q&A with John McWhorter

Kids these days are “speaking” a new language, right under our noses and literally right under the table. But is texting making us dumber? No, says John McWhorter, Associate Professor at Columbia University and Contributing Editor at The New Republic. In his talk from TED@New York -- one of 293 talks given as part of the TED2013 Talent Searc...
Posted July 11, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/lol-is-its-own-language-qa-with-john-mcwhorter

Why don’t civilians ask veterans more questions?

I love asking questions. As a journalist, I don’t just ask people what they do -- I interrogate them, be they scientists or teachers or sculptors, to find out the terminology of their field, the kinds of characters that populate it, and the questions they think about that might never even occur to someone outside their orbit. That is: until I...
Posted May 23, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/why-dont-civilians-ask-veterans-more-questions

TEDWeekends traces the origin of the All-American Chinese takeout

Turns out the fortune cookie that came with your chop suey isn’t actually Chinese … and neither is the chop suey. So where did they come from? In this TED Talk, journalist Jennifer 8. Lee shares the origins of some of America’s favorite “Chinese” food, and takes us on a culinary tour of Chinese restaurants around the world -- whose menus ofte...
Posted April 13, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/04/13/ted-weekends-traces-the-origin-of-the-all-american-chinese-take-out

How technology is changing blindness: 6 talks on how those who can’t see can drive cars, take photographs and more

When Ron McCallum was a child, he loved story time. But he was sad not to be able to read a book on his own. It was the 1940s, and McCallum was blind since birth. As his mom told him, "You can't feel the pictures, and you can't feel the print on the page." "Little did I know that I would be part of a technological revolution that would ma...
Posted September 11, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/09/11/how-technology-is-changing-blindness
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