About this event: Don't miss this chance to hear from future thought leaders about what they've learned over the years. Speakers will discuss issues that will make you laugh, from crazy teen psychology to body building essentials. They will spark your attention on topics like how to use curiosity and why humans are obsessed with competition. And they will move yo...

Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: In case you haven't seen it yet, To This Day is a beautiful collaborative project that combines spoken word poetry and a flurry of eclectic animations to raise awareness about bullying. Watch seven TED Talks on the wonder of 3D printing. The f...

Enough with online hate speech, sexual harassment and threats of violence against women and marginalized groups. It's time to take the global crisis of online abuse seriously. In this searching, powerful talk, Ashley Judd recounts her ongoing experience of being terrorized on social media for her unwavering activism and calls on citizens of the ...

Artist Safwat Saleem grew up with a stutter -- but as an independent animator, he decided to do his own voiceovers to give life to his characters. When YouTube commenters started mocking his Pakistani accent, it crushed him, and his voice began to leave his work. Hear how this TED Fellow reclaimed his voice and confidence in this charming, thoug...

Bullies never win -- not even in the comments section. TED’s community manager, Katie Pierce, shares these tips on how to react to a comment-thread bully. I grew up with a dad who was a baseball-loving criminal investigator, so in my house, dinner conversation was about two things: Yankees batting averages and criminal psychology. At the table,...

About this event: IN TODAY’S WORLD WE HAVE TO TEACH AND INSPIRE OUR YOUTH TO BE KIND AND LOVE MORE THAN EVER. IT IS TIME TO EDUCATE AND BUILD RESILIENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY. LET’S COME TOGETHER FOR AN AFTERNOON OF TED TALKS. AFTER THE PRESENTATION, LETS ENJOY LUNCH AND HAVE AN OPEN DISCUSSION ON HOW WE CAN BE BETTER YOUTH AND PARENTS. LET’S BATTLE THE TOUGH SUBJECTS...

About this event: When you think of some of the loudest voices out there, you don't usually think of teens. But in recent years, we’ve seen a shift with youth being some of the greatest voices out there when it comes to issues such as gun violence in schools, or bullying. Teen voices deserve to be heard by both students and adults everywhere -- our perspectives o...

About this event: This morning we join together to share stories of the triumph of courage and integrity over fear and discrimination. We embrace a vision for our communities where our differences are viewed, not as weakness, but as strength; a society, not of exclusion, but of inclusion; a world not of bullying and hatred, but of kindness, compassion and unde...

Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better" In a courageous, intensely emotional talk at the city council in Fort Worth, Texas, councilman Joel Burns reaches out to the targets of teen bullying -- kids who are gay, perceived as gay, or just different -- with a vital message about their lives, and the harassment they face. Watch now

About this event: How much are you influenced by the people around you? Your family? The media? Your education? How does it affect your opinions, risks and decisions. Our event will theme around ‘peer pressure versus change and progress’. Changes in the law, changes in how we eat, changes in how we love, work, age, invest, diagnose and convince. TedXBarnet will...

About this event: When Plato faced a question too difficult for one person to answer, he convened a Symposium: That is, he invited great thinkers to come and discuss his question (the meaning of “love”), to tap the power of collective wisdom, which was later published in a book called “Symposium”. The combination of many minds can spark epiphanies at a higher lev...

Shane Koyczan has a way with words. “I’ve been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself,” he says, beginning today’s talk. “That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.” Koyczan appeared on the TED2013 stage just a week after his spoken-word poem...

One year ago today, at TED2015, Monica Lewinsky gave a powerful talk about bullying, shaming and becoming a more empathetic society. She sends this note to our community on her TED-iversary... Dear TEDsters: One year ago today, with the hauntingly beautiful TED2015 theme song playing, I nervously walked out to The Red Circle in front o...

Sir Ken Robinson is not just an amazing orator -- he is the most-viewed speaker on TED.com. His three talks have been viewed an astounding 21.5 million times, making him the sneezing baby panda of the TED ecosystem. Naturally, this made us curious: what talks does Robinson absolutely love? In this new playlist, Robinson selects 10 talks about...

Power posing is always in style. So we were excited to see it featured in The New York Times Fashion & Style section this weekend in the article “Amy Cuddy takes a stand.” In a glowing article about the wide influence of her TED Talk (watch: Your body language shapes who you are), the writer notes that it has affected “elementary school ...

About this event: TEDxHaymarket is back for 2018, and bigger than ever! This year we explore the theme 'Re:Connect'. On October 27 at COMMUNE, Waterloo; we'll explore how technology is challenging the way we have traditionally communicated, collaborated and built communities, and is now creating new methods and behaviours that guide our human interactions in the ...

If you watch my TED Talk from 2010, you might see a confident 12-year-old, cracking jokes and striding around the stage in glasses that keep sliding down her nose. You won’t see me going home and crying, or starting every page in my journal with four words: “I feel sad today.” I divided my life into two parts: my tear-stained journal vers...

About this event: Our event will take place from 11-4:30 on Saturday April 16th at the beautiful 19 on the Park- Lebovic Centre for Arts and Entertainment. We will have five outstanding multi-disciplinary speakers who will bring their fresh ideas forward to challenge us and promote discussion and help us in finding a new perspective.  We will also be featuring 3 ...

Shhh ... it's time for Secret Voices, the 10th session of TED2013. Get ready to hear stories of the forgotten, marginalized, stigmatized and hidden. Our first speaker will make quite an entrance while the last will give a stirring finish, in spoken word. In between, thoughts on interspecies communication. Here, the speakers who appeared in th...

Monica Lewinsky is one of very few people over the age of 40 who has no interest in being 22 again. “At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss,” she says bluntly as she begins her talk on the TED2015 stage, her hands clasped in front of her. “At the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences. “ Lewinsky asks for a show of ha...

TEDxYouthDay is a series of TEDx events happening all around the world on November 20 -- Universal Children's Day. The events are designed to empower and inspire youth and kids. 

TEDx organizers across the globe will host events for (and by) young people. These events will vary widely in size, format and theme, but they will share a comm...

“Two FBI agents knocked on my door. They told me that unless I helped them by spying on protest groups, they would put me on a domestic terrorist list. I’d love to tell you I didn’t flinch, but I was terrified.” How can this possibly be the way that law and domestic security are pursued in 21st-century America? Will Potter’s short talk about th...

TED2014 Fellow Jorge Mañes Rubio is an artist and perpetual tourist who investigates invisible, forgotten places -- Chinese cities submerged by the Three Gorges Dam Project, a little-known Pacific island paradise destroyed by mining. He creates art that reimagines and revives these sites as attention-worthy destinations. Here, Rubio describes ...

About this event: This year's TEDxYouth@AIS-R talks highlight a variety of ideas that connect with our school-wide theme, Be Well & Flourish. Thirteen inspiring students from our elementary, middle and high school share their Big Ideas on topics like overcoming fears, the benefits of playing a musical instrument, why creativity matters, how everyone can make ...

The TED community is brimming with new projects and updates. Below, a few highlights. Malaria vaccine begins wide-scale testing in Malawi. RTS,S -- the only malaria vaccine to successfully pass clinical trials -- will be made available to 360,000 children in Kenya, Malawi and Ghana in the first round of implementation testing. Immunologis...

Spoken-word poet and artist Shane Koyczan is onstage at TED, sharing his own experiences and charming us silly. This is an intimate, heartfelt look into a life that has not always been easy. "I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself," he says. Being told to stand up for yourself is a commo...

We're welcoming two guest hosts to TEDGlobal 2011 -- Pat Mitchell, from the Paley Center for Media, who hosts Session 8, and Matt Ridley, whose 2010 TEDTalk was memorably titled "When Ideas Have Sex," and who'll be hosting Session 5. We asked both hosts a few questions about their plans for their session of TED. Here's what we asked Pat Mitc...

On Friday, Aaron Swartz -- the 26-year-old internet innovator who helped create RSS and had a hand in the building of Reddit -- was found dead in his apartment in an apparent suicide. Swartz, who suffered from depression, had reportedly found out just days before that a plea bargain deal with federal prosecutors had fallen apart. A longtime ...

Dance -- and physical activity -- should have the same status in schools as math, science and language. Psst: it may even help raise test scores, says Sir Ken Robinson. For several years, I’ve been a patron of the London School of Contemporary Dance. In 2016, I was invited to give the annual lecture in honor of founding principal Robert Cohan, ...

TED is about ideas worth spreading, and these often come wrapped up in words worth knowing. Here are some of the great words from TED2015: 10. Neurodiversity. From Steve Silberman's talk on the history of the autism spectrum. It's a word that began popping up in 1998, and it means "the variety of configurations of the brain, especially wi...