This November, we're gathering in New Orleans for three days of TEDWomen -- to share talks about bridging the world today and the world we all hope to build. Today, we're announcing the first speakers on our lineup, a mix of powerful voices, creative insights and committed activism that will set the tone for our time together. Read on to learn m...

In the small village of Roka in western Cambodia, 272 people have tested positive for HIV since the end of 2014. Among those diagnosed: an 82-year-old celibate Buddhist monk, several babies and 19 members of the same family. This tragic outbreak has been traced to a source: Yem Chrin, a popular medical practitioner who operated without a lic...

Brainstorms can be painful and they're not always productive, but The Onion has perfected an approach that results in a higher number of good ideas. Writer and ex-Onion staffer Brian Janosch shares their process. This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from someone in the TE...

2012 was the year of radical openness at TED. In that spirit, while our office is closed for winter break, TED's editorial staffers have selected their favorite talks of the year that, for a variety of reasons, didn’t get as many views as we would have hoped ... giving you a peek into both our process and our personalities. We hope you enjoy. ...

The best way to prepare for a future of unknown complexity? Build on the strength of our differences, explain MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and writer Jeff Howe. In the fall of 2011, the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology published a paper revealing that after more than a decade of effort, researchers had succeeded in mapping the ...

The public education system in the US has been the same for over a century, with teachers talking at students and giving them tests. But at Iowa BIG, teens address their community's most pressing needs -- and the results are benefiting them and their town. In 2012, some members of the community in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, asked, “What should school ...

Find repose by exciting the mind. Some of the world's leading thinkers offer the books that inspired them and their work. Skim the list for your favorite speakers, or get nerdy on a topic you've always wanted to know more about. Below find 52 books, recommended by TED speakers. Creativity Creative Confidence, by Tom Kelley and David Kelley Cr...

Millions of people, many of them children, suffer from "orphan" diseases -- illnesses so rare that no infrastructure exists to investigate or treat them. Now C Jimmy Lin's Rare Genomics Institute puts hope and empowerment back in patients' hands by connecting them with researchers, doctors and community support, and a crowdsourced funding pl...

In a classroom in Ontario, a class of 9th graders learned the book Siddhartha, not by listening to lectures from their teacher, but by asking questions like, “How do you know when you’ve reached enlightenment?” Meanwhile, a group of 3rd through 5th graders in rural Georgia was posed a question in Spanish, even though they speak English: “Why...

On September 24, TEDxCERN was hosted by physicist Brian Cox (watch his TED Talk: "CERN's supercollider"), and the world was welcomed to watch for free. Below, an appetite-whetter that originally ran on the TEDx Innovations Blog. Cosmic rays. Active galactic nuclei. Nucleosynthesis. For physicist Veronica Bindi, this is everyday vocabula...

RejectTED Talks. Onion Talks. DED Talks. Here in the TED office, you often hear chuckles as someone watches one of the quickly growing crop of TED spoofs floating in the ether. And surprisingly, there are some pretty good lessons for speakers embedded in these spoofs. See what I mean below. The spoof: Stephen Colbert’s RejecTED Talks Cr...

Welcome to "Dear Guy," TED's advice column from psychologist Guy Winch. Twice a month, he'll answer your questions about life -- about your relationships, your job (or jobs), your family (or families), your passions, fears and more. Please send your questions to dearguy@ted.com; to read his previous columns, go here. Dear Guy, I am an intern...

Time is a global preoccupation -- we never feel like we have enough of it to accomplish all we want to accomplish in the world. Do we control time, or does time control us? In the opening session of TEDWomen 2016 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, seven speakers explored how time and attention shape our lives, in talks ra...

In 2006, TED started putting talks online for free, a milestone in democratizing ideas worth spreading. Since then, the world has seen monumental shifts in history, including the rise and fall of revolutions, the roar of a deadly epidemic, the largest-ever leak of government secrets, an astronomical discovery predicted by Einstein and the el...

At the intersections where we meet and collaborate, we can pool our collective wisdom to seek solutions to the world's greatest problems. But true change begs for more than incremental steps and passive reactions -- we need to galvanize transformation to create our collective future. To celebrate the effort of bold thinkers building a bet...

We tend to think of prejudice as something that other people, particularly bad people, have in their hearts and minds. The truth is, prejudice is inside us all. The good news is that psychology provides a powerful way to combat it. Prejudice is due in part to cultural learning, from our parents, our schools and social messages and depictio...

Turns out, it's less about "teaching" creativity to children -- and more about creating a fertile environment in which their creativity will take root, grow and flourish. Researcher Mitch Resnick, director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT, explains how we can do this. There’s a common misconception that the best way to encourage childr...

Here at TED headquarters, we are constantly looking for new voices, new ideas -- and late last year, we opened a challenge to the world: Make a one-minute audition video that makes the case for your TED Talk. On Thursday night, January 26, at our New York office, co-hosts Kelly Stoetzel and Cloe Shasha presented us with eleven audition final...

Astrophysicist, educator, and humanitarian Hakeem Oluseyi trounced race and class to become an important contributor to computer technology and space research. Back on Earth, he's doing all he can to give young and underfunded scientists a chance to reach for the stars. Yours is an extraordinary story. You grew up impoverished -- moving frequ...

It is hard to believe that this is final session of TED2015. Luckily Session 12, "Endgame," is our longest ever — with two full hours of talks that took us on a journey through the human experience, from anger to laughter and back again. Read a recap of these inspiring talks. An ode to anger. Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace ...

In all of its formats, in all the ways we listen and watch, the media is extremely powerful in how it represents -- or underrepresents or misrepresents -- women. Unless we're prepared to change the way women are portrayed in the stories we tell, we're not prepared for real change. In Session 4 of TEDWomen 2016 at the Yerba Buena Center fo...

The suspension bridge, says Acumen founder and session host Jacqueline Novogratz, provides the perfect metaphor for the leadership we need to see in this "fractured, divided, too often cynical world." Why? Because its structure balances a strong, deep, unwavering foundation with its ability to stretch across vast distances to connect and bri...

A shift implies a subtle move — up, down, to the right or left. In this session, a look at things in flux, from masculinity to poverty to glaciers, with new thoughts on some shared conversations. Short recaps of the talks in this session... Why gender inequality is bad for men. “I am here to recruit men to support gender equality,” say...

Boyd Varty’s talk brings together many fascinating moments: a tribute to Nelson Mandela (who passed away just hours before Varty took the stage at TEDWomen 2013 last week), incredible footage of animals shot on the Londolozi Game Reserve (which Varty’s family transformed from a hunting ground to a game reserve in 1973, and where Varty curren...

So, you want to hire the best employee for the job? Or perhaps you’re the employee looking to be hired. Here’s some counterintuitive and hyper-intuitive advice that could get the right foot in the door. Expand your definition of the “right” resume Here’s the hypothetical situation: a position opens up at your company, applications start rolling ...

The theme of TED2018 is The Age of Amazement, and these speakers’ books are bursting with wonders of every kind: intellectual, scientific, urban, technological, economic, historical, aquatic, even extraterrestrial. TED2018, our biggest conference of the year, takes place April 10 through 14 in Vancouver. The talks from the conference will be re...

To kick off day 3 of TED2019, five speakers explored big shifts: challenging accepted wisdom on love, giving, leadership, truth -- and illegal substances. The event: Talks from TED2019, Session 5: Mindshift, hosted by TED's Chris Anderson and Corey Hajim When and where: Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 8:45am, at the Vancouver Convention Cen...

In today's partisan landscape, thoughtful and open discussions about the big issues can sometimes be hard to find. Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman are turning to art -- including highway billboards and remakes of revered images -- as a way to catalyze conversations and reinvigorate democracy. You might consider artists Hank Willis Thomas ...

Session 5, hosted by TED Curator Chris Anderson and astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jedidah Isler, is called “space to dream.” As Isler points out, we’re not just talking about outer space -- it’s also about "the right to take up space, to dream, to do.” Seven dreamers, doers and designers offer a variety of ways to look at this theme. Lear...

The stage is set for TEDSummit 2019: A Community Beyond Borders! During the opening session, speakers and performers explored themes of competition, political engagement and longing -- and celebrated the TED communities (representing 84 countries) gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland to forge TED's next chapter. The event: TEDSummit 2019, Sess...