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...

Cities. While 54% of the world's population lives in them, the urban experience is incredibly varied. From city planning in China to creating art out of Rio's favelas, this session looks at urban environments and the possibilities found within them. The speakers who’ll appear in this session: Robert Muggah creates tools to collect data that ...

Is there a correlation between your biome and your BMI? In her new book, Why Diets Make Us Fat, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt sheds light on this tangled, cryptic relationship. There seems to be little doubt that the diet book of 2016 is Sandra Aamodt’s Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss -- it’s ...

While some world leaders resist global cooperation, city leaders are working across borders to tackle big issues like global warming, immigration and terrorism, says urban expert Robert Muggah. Amid the relentlessly grim news on climate change, there is a glimmer of hope -- and it’s coming from our cities. Even as the US is pulling out from its...

I wish that you will help me recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, empower and connect. The plan A billion people around the world lack access to health care, simply because they live too far from a doctor or clinic. For them, getting m...

One researcher's quest to end discrimination against single people. Bella DePaulo, now in her sixties, has always been single. For some time, she thought the marriage bug would bite her, until she realized it wouldn’t—and she didn’t want it to. DePaulo, who describes herself as “single at heart,” relishes the lifestyle. What she doesn’t love is...

TEDxChange 2013 took place on April 3, 2013 at The Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The event, themed “Positive Disruption,” invited speakers to discuss and explore fresh perspectives on global health, development and education. TED.com provided a free livestream of the event in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish...

Germany's 7-1 victory over host country Brazil in the World Cup semi-finals this week followed the injury of Brazilian soccer star Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, whose collision with Colombian player Juan Camilo Zúñiga during the quarter-final game led to a hail of racist epithets aimed at Zúñiga. Ready to go beyond the headlines? 5 primary sour...

From TEDxRC² comes this moving story of midwife Edna Adan Ismail. We share in honor of the International Day of the Midwife, May 5, 2012. Edna Adan Ismail is a nurse, midwife, UN diplomat, French Legion of Honour recipient and former foreign minister of Somaliland -- an unrecognised, self-declared state that has been going it alone for the...

Why was a New York Times dialect quiz made by an intern and published in the last days of 2013 one of the most popular articles viewed on the site all year? Here's a hunch: Because people want to learn about themselves, and the way we speak says a lot about us. Language is essential to our identity—that’s why as a proud Philadelphian, I stubborn...

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Chris Anderson comes on stage to acknowledge that the TED stage is more often the domain of the techno-optimist than the doomer. So, in somewhat stark contrast with Paul Guilding, the founder, chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, Peter Diamandis now takes the stage. Diamandis starts off his talk wi...

About this event: As a world, we exist as a complicated web of interdependent and interconnected individuals, cognizant, but simultaneously ignorant of our reliance on the self and the group. The current aim of human life is to find purpose, but where is purpose given and found? As a web of many independents searching a meaning, can we truly believe that the piec...

Over on TED Conversations, we're exploring a question from George McCarthy of the Ford Foundation. He asks: "How can we build cities that are sustainable, inclusive and truly just?" He writes: The fact is more than half the world’s people now call cities home. All of the world’s population growth over the next four decades—some 2.3 bil...

About this event: The TEDxUStreetWomen conference theme expands on the 2019 TEDWomen Conference theme of Bold + Brilliant. Our theme Bold + Brilliant = Badass: Now is the Time represents the idea that now is the time to be unapologetic when speaking up and out about those issues that affect women and humanity. Now is the time to be Bold, Brilliant, and BadAss. ...

About this event: This year, WWF, in association with Emirates Wildlife Society, hosted the prestigious TEDxWWF conference in Abu Dhabi. Previously held in Geneva and Singapore, Abu Dhabi was the third city to host TEDxWWF, and this year was the first time the conference visited the Middle East. At TEDxWWF, forward-thinking speakers from around the world shar...

About this event: It is very childish. It's like a child. How many times have we heard this said to an adult over another adult? Sure many. This association of immaturity or madness with children is very well established in the mental frameworks of the vast majority of the adult population of our country and beyond. But, if we stop to think, boys and girls actua...

About this event: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, #TEDxStateHouseRoad is a self-organized event that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Do you ever wonder how Africa will look like 50 years to come? One thing is for sure; our population keeps increasing and with technology the wheels have been set in motion and the potential emergence ...

About this event: Act to Impact will bring forth many stories of people who have taken a step forward towards creating an influence on not just the society as a whole but touching the heart of every person who comes across them. In this vast world with such a huge population, there are a few prominent ones who stand out different from the crowd by dedicating thei...

The many-headed dragon of public anger has a mouthful of fire for parents who don't vaccinate. But such scolding misses the mark, alienating caring parents who just want their kids to be safe. When measles broke out at California’s Disneyland in 2015, sickening nearly 150 people across seven states and spreading to Mexico and Canada, the online...

By Liz Jacobs and Ben Lillie Taking stock of our moment in history helps us better understand ourselves, our societies and the present moment itself  -- which often gets lost in the temptation to look backwards or forwards. And at TED2014: The Next Chapter we're doing plenty of both. But we're also designating this All-Stars session to th...

Pamela Ronald is here to talk about her work as a plant geneticist, about her work "studying genes that make plants resistant to disease and tolerant of stress." But first, she'd like to introduce us to her husband. "This is Raoul. He’s an organic farmer," she says. "People say, 'Really? An organic farmer and a plant geneticist? Can you a...

About this event: TEDxNHS 2016 - Re:imagining Health There are amazing people within our NHS who have inspirational stories and aspirational ideas. We want to bring these people together once a year to share their stories on a national stage so we leave inspired to think differently, dream bigger and design better for the population we serve. TEDxNHS is an even...

About this event: It is very childish. He's like a child. How often have we heard this said to an adult over another adult? Sure many. This association of immaturity or madness with children is well established in the mental frameworks of the immense majority of the adult population of our country and beyond. But, if we stop to thiink, boys and girls actually ha...

About this event: TEDxNHS 2017 - Inspired by People There are amazing people within our NHS who have inspirational stories and aspirational ideas. We want to bring these people together once a year to share their stories on a national stage so we leave inspired to think differently, dream bigger and design better for the population we serve. TEDxNHS is an even...

About this event: The current economic climate has drawn our focus to immediate needs closest to home. But now, more than ever, it's critical to keep sight of the fact that we are part of interdependent, global community. And too many within that community cannot meet their most basic needs: food, clean water, life-saving medical treatment and vaccines. We can...

LEGOs are for building spaceships, crafting castles and getting lost in your couch. But what if they could be used not just to dream of lands long ago and times far away, but to inspire future scientists? That’s what writer Maia Weinstock had in mind when she made these STEM scientist action figures. Weinstock has turned TED Fellows Jedid...

On Sunday, June 22, 2014 the Okavango Delta in Botswana, home to the world’s largest remaining elephant population, was named the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage Site. Why should we care? Well, says TED Fellow and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Steve Boyes, because wilderness matters. “Wilderness cannot be restored or re-created, only destr...

On Sunday night, Ben Affleck accepted the Academy Award on behalf of his film Argo as it was named the Best Picture of 2012. And today, he appeared on the TED2013 stage kicking off Session 10, "Secret Voices." "This is not a TED Talk. I will not be interesting or funny. This will not be exciting in any way," he said. "Though I feel a litt...

At age 33, Reshma Saujani had a moment of bravery: Against all odds of winning, she ran for Congress. It was a serious long shot: People called her crazy, and said there was no way that she would win. And, well, she didn’t. But through her recklessness, the founder of Girls who Code learned an unexpected lesson. “It was the first time ...

The animal you see in this watercolor-washed illustration is not a camel. This is, technically, a dromedary. Anja Kantowsky, a communications consultant who lives in Germany, created this image at the TEDSalon Berlin in June as she watched a talk from nine-time TED speaker Hans Rosling and his son Ola Rosling that used the differences betwee...