TEDActive is like attending TED, only without having to sit in an auditorium for hours at a time. TEDActive attendees get to watch the talks from TED2013 while lounging around the La Quinta Resort and Spa in Palm Springs -- and they also get take part in smile-inducing participatory art projects and go on all kinds of field trips for adults....

Sequencing an extinct genome is no longer a pipe dream, says evolutionary biologist and ancient DNA specialist Hendrik Poinar in today’s talk. It’s a modern reality, and we’re not too far from seeing a revived extinct species walking the Earth again -- maybe even a woolly mammoth. In this talk from TEDxDeExtinction, Poinar talks about how he and...

In Northern Canada, near the Beaufort Sea, sits a tiny hamlet with a population of less than 700, consisting of mostly Aboriginal people. It is where 80-year-olds ride their snowmobiles to buy milk, where students go on hunting expeditions for field trips, and where neighbors drop off chunks of fresh muskox meat in the evenings. Here, the su...

About this event: TEDxYouth@Kyoto is hosted in Kyoto City, Japan, known as the ‘city of students’. Kyoto has earned this title due to the fact that it is home to over 30 universities/colleges and also has the highest percentage of students in its population than any other prefecture in Japan. Universities offer students the opportunity to develop within, and c...

About this event: Science is the ultimate exploration of the unknown. It is our rationale for systematic study: to build on existing ideas, develop technology, and break boundaries. It is a collective progress. It is a journey. On the 16th November 2019, TEDxLSTM will celebrate this journey by showcasing a myriad of cutting-edge research projects being undertak...

About this event: Is Asia Already the Epicenter Cyber Crime? Has Asia Been Breached? Commerce, Finance, Education, Health, Love, Logistics, Community... so many aspects of life are moving online faster and deeper than ever before with no signs of slowing down. At the same time, we have never felt less secure with incidents of phishing, rootkits, bots, DDoS att...

Cities are the the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization -- and they're where humanity's struggle for survival will take place. Robert Muggah and Benjamin Barber spell out the possibilities. Half the planet's population lives in cities. They are the world's engines, generating four-fifths of the global GDP. There are over 2,100 cities wi...

A day at the beach means something very different to TED Fellow Asha de Vos, a marine biologist who has spent the past three years charting an unusual population of blue whales just 12 miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, the country where she was born. While most blue whales migrate from tropical waters to polar waters, which are more nutrient-r...

Never mind workers -- Yoshie Komuro suggests that if anyone stands to benefit from a sensible workday, it’s employers. “The number of Japanese people who work overtime, more than 60 hours, is higher than any other country,” says Yoshie Komuro, “but the contributing value of each individual is the lowest among the industrialized countries.” Komu...

Welcome to the world, Prince(ss) XX! As per tradition, the birth announcement was posted on an easel in front of Buckingham Palace, listing the baby's weight and time of birth — XX lbs at XX:XX o'clock. As the world celebrates the momentous nativity of the third in line to the British throne, take some time to make sense of this baby's birth wit...

Jimmy Nelson has gone all over the earth to photograph native peoples at their proudest moments and to show you their soul. “This is us at our best” -- that’s the caption that could hover over these images from Dutch photographer Jimmy Nelson (TED talk: Gorgeous portraits of the world’s vanishing people), who works to put the world’s peoples an...

About this event: Human progress has led us to being the most advanced animal on the planet, colonising continents, building civilisations, creating technologies and systems which allow us to connect and work collectively in our continual endeavours to thrive as a species. Our population is booming, our tools are sophisticated, our global connectivity exceeds any...

About this event: Our theme this year is Resiliency through Innovation; this theme was derived and inspired by the Code Red series published in the Hamilton Spectator several years ago. We recognize that the downtown core is associated with poor economic, health, and social outcomes, but there are many in Hamilton that refuse to believe that this means the downt...

Cities are a hot topic at the moment. As more and more of the world's population gravitates toward living in them, people from all professions are coming together to figure out how to create infrastructures and environments to suit human needs and desires in the 21st century. These are huge issues, and you can be sure that the conversation, ...

From his latest book you wouldn’t guess that photographer Robert Leslie was born in England. Stormbelt transports you across America the way only a homegrown native could, taking you down Route 66 past golden, rusty waves of sand and dust. Leslie captures abandoned car lots, foreclosed homes and forgotten billboards with pathos, giving life to t...

Pankaj Ghemawat coined a new phrase in his talk from TEDGlobal: “globaloney.” In other words, Ghemawat takes issue with the idea that national borders are eroding and that we are all just living in “one world.” It’s a notion Ghemawat says was first floated in the 1850s by David Livingston, the Scottish explorer who traveled the Nile, and th...

Behold, your recap of TED-related news: Print your own pharmaceutical factory. As part of an ongoing quest to make pharmaceuticals easier to manufacture, chemist Lee Cronin and his team at the University of Glasgow have designed a way to 3D-print a portable “factory” for the complicated and multi-step chemical reactions needed to create u...

Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s mission to establish equity for every person.

This past Monday, swimmer Diana Nyad made her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. Though this attempt ended when weather and jellyfish conditions took a turn for the worse, we can look back at her talk from TEDMED 2011 to understand how she — and all of us — found "grace in the face of defeat." From her experience and that of other T...

In 2009, author Emily Pilloton moved to Bertie County, North Carolina -- the poorest county in the state with a population of just 20,000. There she and her partner Matthew Miller launched Studio H, a design and build program meant to engage the creativity of high school students while bringing design innovation to the area. Pilloton told the st...

Before we can tackle climate change, financial reform, education reform or, well, anything, there is a single issue that we in the United States must confront. As legal activist Lawrence Lessig says in today’s talk, before we can bring about change on any of the thousands of issues that matter to us, we must change a central corruption at the ro...

Iwan Baan is not as interested in what architects build as he is in the beautiful ways that people appropriate the spaces once the planners are gone. In his TED Talk, Baan -- whose breathtaking image of lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy hangs on at least one of our walls -- shows incredible images from communities thriving in ways that seem ...

Thursday, April 26, 2018 – Today marks the first-ever TED en Español speaker event hosted by TED in its New York City office. The all-Spanish daytime event, held in TED's theater in Manhattan, will feature eight speakers, a musical performance, five short films and fifteen 1-minute talks given by members of the audience. 150 people are expected ...

How long do you want to live, and why? These are the questions that bestselling author and science writer David Ewing Duncan asks as he surveys the emerging science of radical life extension — from genetics and regeneration to machine solutions. In When I'm 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension and What Happens If It Succeeds, Duncan co...

Surfing in the ice. “If shivering is a form of meditation, then I consider myself a monk,” says Chris Burkard, before playing a soaring video that shows him surfing waves amidst snowfall and ice drifts, with white-topped mountain peaks in the background. See, Chris Burkard is a surf photographer who found himself burnt out on tropical locati...

In the 1950s, 3 out of every 10 people on the planet lived in a city. Today, that ratio has nearly doubled -- and the United Nations projects that by 2050, nearly 7 in 10 people will live in urban settings. Our population is gravitating towards cities, and this shift is creating amazing opportunities as well as critical problems that need our im...

About this event: 2016 represents the fourth consecutive year that a TEDxBaruunUrt event will be held in Mongolia's Sukhbaatar province. Baruun-Urt (the capital city of Sukhbaatar province) is one of only two places in all of Mongolia to have hosted a TEDx event. In an effort to embrace such an important and pioneering legacy to the fullest, this year's TEDxBar...

Chief Tashka of the Yawanawá, an indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest, opens with a song, as is traditional of his people's gatherings. He then begins to tell the story of Brazil's indigenous rights movement that developed in the ’70s and ’80s, when many young people from the indigenous population (who make up about 1% of Brazilians) start...

About this event: TEDxWhitman College is an opportunity for the Whitman community to continue to showcase its strong partnership with the Walla Walla and surrounding communities. TEDxWhitmanCollege will highlight the work of folks in the Whitman and Walla Walla communities in the arenas of technology, entertainment, and development. Whitman students are bright,...

Documentary filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert have worked to conserve wildlife in Africa for more than 30 years. Last year, I visited the Jouberts in one of the Great Plains safari camps and preserves they founded: Great Plains Conservation, launched a few years ago in Botswana and Kenya. You can read about my 2016 visit and their work i...