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 ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This picture was worth all the words I had -- it rendered me speechless. It’s an image of six Black women, smiling and hugging, taken by Ryan Lash at the TED2015 conference. There we were --  LaToya, Somi, Aomawa, Camille, Danielle and myself -- in all of our various and sundry Black Woman-ness. ...

About this event: We're in the midst of a dramatic reinvention of the ancient art of the spoken word. The surprising spread of talks online and the explosion of TEDx events around the globe are testament to that. At TED2012 we plan to celebrate this phenomenon and nudge it a further step forward. Full Spectrum is a term we've adapted to mean the rich use of multi...

About this event: A Stimulating Day of Presentations (Los Alamos, NM, February 20, 2012) TEDx PajaritoLive, a live simulcast of the February 29th sessions being presented at TED2012 in Long Beach will take place on Wednesday, February 29th between the hours of 9:30 am and 7:45 pm at the Hive, 134 State Road 4 in White Rock. The overall theme of TED2012 is "F...

About this event: We're in the midst of a dramatic reinvention of the ancient art of the spoken word. The surprising spread of talks online and the explosion of TEDx events around the globe are testament to that. At TED2012 we plan to celebrate this phenomenon and nudge it a further step forward. Full Spectrum is a term we've adapted to mean the rich use of multi...

About this event: LIVE SIMULCAST (LIVE WEBCASTING) OF THE TED 2013 CONFERENCE (from Los Angeles, California) ‘The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered’. We will ONLY screen (LIVE, with Exclusive License and in English only), the Fourth and Fifth Session of the 27th line-up (the entire conference actually lasts 4 days but it is allowed to screen only the 27th): ‘DIS...

Sarah Jane Pell is making preparations to live in the ocean. That’s right, under the sea -- but not until after a jaunt to the Arctic. Never one to be satisfied with the ordinary, Sarah Jane founded the Aquabatics Research Team Initiative to explore water choreography, technology, and human behavior as works of live art. Her future projects wi...

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At TEDGlobal 2012, Amy Cuddy gave a talk about the remarkable power of our posture to affect our mental state: Strike a powerful pose (in private) before a job interview, and your performance will improve.  With the US election coming up, we asked Cuddy, an expert on nonverbal communication, for her insights into political posturing -- an...

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A talented trio of dancers brings to life choreographer Nina McNeely's contemporary dance piece "Once There Was III." Settle in for a dazzling, hypnotic performance.

"The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing," says Sarah Kay, quoting her friend, poet Kaveh Akbar. Performing "A Bird Made of Birds," she shares how and where she finds poetry. (Kay is also the host of TED's podcast "Sincerely, X." Listen on the Luminary podcast app at luminary.link/ted)

The border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants to dissolve it altogether. As he demonstrates in this short, gasp-inducing talk, his ideas include a pen that penetrates into a screen to draw 3D models and SpaceTop, a computer desktop prot...

One night in 2002, a friend gave Jorge Drexler the chorus to a song and challenged him to write the rest of it using a complex, poetic form known as the "Décima." In this fascinating talk, Drexler examines the blended nature of identity, weaving together the history of the Décima with his own quest to write one. He closes the talk with a perform...

We all use our body on a daily basis, and yet few of us think about our physicality the way Wayne McGregor does. He demonstrates how a choreographer communicates ideas to an audience, working with two dancers to build phrases of dance, live and unscripted, on the TEDGlobal stage.

Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.

About this event: The theme of the upcoming TEDxFactory798 2013: The Zeitgeist Originally a German word, Zeitgeist means Spirit of the Time. Often attributed to philosopher Georg Hegel, it means intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time. Session 1. Inside Out TED Prize winner...

It's a fateful moment in history. We've seen divisive elections, divided societies and the growth of extremism -- all fueled by anxiety and uncertainty. "Is there something we can do, each of us, to be able to face the future without fear?" asks Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. In this electrifying talk, the spiritual leader gives us three specific wa...

Poets Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy perform excerpts from their play "Other Women," which is created and directed by Monica L. Williams. In a captivating journey, they weave together stories full of laughter, loyalty, tragedy and heartbreak, recalling the moments that made them sisters.

Chris Milk uses innovative technologies to make personal, interactive, human stories. Accompanied by Joshua Roman on cello and McKenzie Stubbert on piano, Milk traces his relationship to music and art -- from the first moment he remembers putting on headphones to his current work creating breakthrough virtual reality projects. VR is the last med...

The current coronavirus pandemic is a truly global one; in fact, Antarctica is the only continent with no cases (although that could change). Most nations have responded with similar measures -- stay-at-home advisories, shutdown of non-essential businesses, social distancing -- but the scope of these changes has varied and so has the human impac...

Michael Moschen puts on a quietly mesmerizing show of juggling. Don't think juggling is an art? You might just change your mind after watching Moschen in motion.

Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder can improve the lives of everyone affected, but the complex network of causes make it incredibly difficult to predict. At TEDxPeachtree, Ami Klin describes a new early detection method that uses eye-tracking technologies to gauge babies' social engagement skills and reliably measure their risk of devel...

Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit -- when no one's giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects, too.

MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show Design and the Elastic Mind -- full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now.

Rick Guidotti is a fashion photographer with a passion project: finding and sharing the beauty of kids with albinism and other conditions that affect their physical appearance -- and the way society treats them. At TEDxPhoenix, he shares some of their stories and the empowering effects of a little glamour as he redefines their beauty in a flash.

Mr. Gregory Gorman, conservation chair for the New Jersey Sierra Club, discusses the Green New Deal and how this legislation specifically impacts New Jersey, USA. As a part of the TED Countdown initiative, this talk aims to discuss climate change action with specific focus on infrastructure and cost parity.

Since the beginning humanity developed tools to compensate its deficits. Meanwhile, we reached the point, where these tools become more powerful than its creators. This idea and its implications towards human kind can be scary. Forecasts of our future fluctuate between dystopian and utopian outlooks. But is artificial intelligence really the ove...

Grigory Sverdlin is the head of the nonprofit organization for help homeless people called “Nochlezhka”. In this stirring and eye-opening talk he showed the reasons why people are getting homeless and the ways how nonprofit organizations and public can help people in need to get back to normal life. By sharing photos and personal stories he br...

In a dramatic, poetic performance, english teacher Gregor Trpin challenges the status quo. Believing a multitude of pressures facing today's students prevent learning in the classroom, Gregor believes the answer to improved learning lies in being sensitive to how his students are feeling and balancing curriculum with his students' emotional well...