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Back to tech's future: Nicholas Negroponte at TED2014

Today, Negroponte is back to open TED, to reflect on predictions he's made in the past and to spin some new ones for the future. His point is that when someone tells you that you are "dead wrong," that you just might be onto something. Negroponte takes us on a lightning-paced tour of his career, beginning in the 1960s when he worked on comp...
Posted March 17, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/17/back-to-techs-future-nicholas-negroponte-at-ted2014

Beyoncé gives a donation to a TED Fellow that could save 1,900 babies

Jane Chen knew that, for her low-cost baby incubator to save lives, moms would need to love it. But she had no idea that one of the world’s most famous moms—Beyoncé—would become one of her biggest supporters. Last week, Beyoncé announced a $125,000 donation to Embrace Innovations, Chen’s organization that makes the low-cost infant warmer,...
Posted June 9, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/06/09/beyonce-gives-donation-to-a-ted-fellow-that-could-potentially-save-1900-babies

Great shorts: The lineup of short films and video played at TEDGlobal 2017

How does TED complement a program of speakers sharing bold ideas, tough truths and jaw-dropping creative visions at TEDGlobal 2017 in Arusha? With interstitials: the beautiful, funny, inspiring, silly, short video breaks screened in between speakers. Pulling from a global pool of creativity, talent and thoughtfulness, this year's TEDGlobal in...
Posted August 30, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/08/30/great-shorts-all-the-short-films-and-video-played-at-tedglobal-2017

How do you film a School in the Cloud? Q&A with documentarian Jerry Rothwell

By Courtney E. Martin What do sperm donation, marathon runners, disabled rockstars, and yacht racing have in common? They’ve all been subjects of the careful eye and artistic vision of British director Jerry Rothwell, the winner of the first annual Sundance Institute | TED Prize Filmmaker Award, who has received $125,000 to spend the next ...
Posted June 13, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/13/how-do-you-film-a-school-in-the-cloud-qa-with-documentarian-jerry-rothwell

One year in, The Audacious Project ideas make ever-bigger waves

One year ago, TED launched The Audacious Project — an initiative to help change-makers with big, bold ideas for tackling global challenges find the support to make their visions a reality. What's happened since has been amazing. Thousands of people in the US are awaiting trials at home rather than in jail cells now because of the work of The...
Posted April 5, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/04/05/the-audacious-project-one-year-in

Last week for YOU to apply to be a TED2015 Fellow

Dear [Your Name Here], At the TED Fellows program, we look for extraordinary young innovators, inventors and leaders—like you—from many categories of human endeavor: scientists of all sorts, engineers, artists, filmmakers, photojournalists, entrepreneurs, NGO founders, technologists, inventors, human rights activists and more. Our goal is...
Posted September 17, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/09/17/apply-to-be-a-ted2015-fellow

6 things we can learn from how women leaders have handled the pandemic

Times of crisis can foster innovation and illumination. The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the ability of world leaders to respond to its enormous and interlocking challenges. Some have stumbled, while some have risen to the occasion. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox -- the CEO of 20-first, a global gender-balance consultancy based in the UK ...
Posted September 24, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/6-things-we-can-learn-from-how-women-leaders-have-handled-the-pandemic

Bono makes ONE big wish

I wish for you to help build a social movement of more than 1 MILLION American activists for Africa. I wish to tell people ONE BILLION times about ONE, with as much of this as possible before the G8 Africa Summit in July 2005. I wish for you to show the power of information — its power to rewrite the rules and to transform lives — by connectin...
https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-prize/prize-winning-wishes/one-org

Wisdom from attendees: TED University Session 2 at TEDGlobal 2013

TED University Session 2 began with a difficult challenge, especially for 8:45 in the morning: describe yourself in six words. After several TEDGlobal 2013 attendees bravely took the stage to share their introductions, Kelly Stoetzel urged her co-host June Cohen to share her own six-word self-description. Cohen, who runs TED’s Media Team, ra...
Posted June 11, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/11/wisdom-from-attendees-ted-university-session-2-at-tedglobal-2013

Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala

Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala is a journey across the globe in search of the world's most surprising and imaginative ideas. It's not a travel show, exactly. It's a deep dive into the ideas that shape a particular spot on the map, brought to you by local journalists and creators. Weave through the streets of Bangkok with a motorcycle midwife. ...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/far_flung_with_saleem_reshamwala

What links the top 0.1 percent and the bottom billion? Rent

Paul Collier studies the poorest people on earth -- the 1 in 9 humans living in dysfunctional countries with broken economies, places whose income gaps are so wide it's hard for westerners to wrap their minds around it. In 2007, his book The Bottom Billion broke down the problems facing this group of people, stuck in failed and failing state...
Posted June 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/how-factory-jobs-and-natural-resources-can-improve-life-for-the-bottom-billion

Meklit Hadero | TED Fellow

Singer + songwriter
https://www.ted.com/profiles/242811/about

The challenges of bringing health care to everyone, everywhere

Physicians Raj Panjabi and Seth Berkley are on a mission to ensure that every person in the world has access to decent medical care. In a conversation, they discuss the obstacles standing in their way and the bold ideas that could help overcome them. Around the world right now, more than one billion people don’t have access to basic health care...
Posted June 8, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/the-challenges-of-bringing-health-care-to-everyone-everywhere

The world’s refugees need all the help they can get. Here are 7 ways that businesses can support them

Want to do something to help the world’s more than 25 million refugees? Any business -- no matter its size -- can give them a boost, says Melissa Fleming, chief spokesperson for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. On Saturday, June 9, I had the honor of co-hosting the first-ever TEDx event held at a refugee camp -- it took place at Kenya’s Kakuma Cam...
Posted June 15, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/the-worlds-refugees-need-all-the-help-they-can-get-here-are-7-ways-that-businesses-can-support-them

The TED Gift Guide

Buying gifts? It is HARD. Especially when so many gift guides offer up ideas for what to get your dad, co-worker or sister without taking into account what actually interests those specific people in your life. A better way to locate the perfect gift? Think about what captures a person’s curiosity, and then seek ideas from people in that field. ...
Posted December 9, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/12/09/the-ted-gift-guide

Are we irrationally pessimistic? A deep-dive Q&A with Steven Pinker

After his mainstage talk on the opening night of TED, psychologist Steven Pinker sat down with Chris Anderson to dive into his new book, Enlightenment Now. The two examined some criticisms of the book and the thesis behind it, dug into the data, and then threw the floor open for questions, in a session that offered the luxury of time to real...
Posted April 13, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/04/13/are-we-irrationally-pessimistic-a-deep-dive-qa-with-steven-pinker

Somi unveils an odyssey of song and soul in 'The Lagos Music Salon'

This week, East African singer Somi releases her first major-label album, The Lagos Music Salon, in the United States. Already, it is #1 on the iTunes Jazz Chart, #1 on the Amazon Jazz Vocal Chart, and #1 on the Amazon Pop Vocal Chart. The TED Blog caught up with the jazz-soul vocalist and songwriter—who was was born in Illinois to Rwandan and...
Posted August 8, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/08/08/somi-unveils-an-odyssey-of-song-and-soul-in-the-lagos-music-salon

Everything you know about hyenas is wrong -- these animals are fierce, social and incredibly smart

Don’t be misled by the cringing creatures seen in The Lion King. From their biology to their social structure, spotted hyenas are complex creatures like none other on earth, explains author and conservationist Lucy Cooke. In the animal world, the hyena has been censured by more scandalous untruths than even the sloth. They are considered nature...
Posted May 29, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/everything-you-know-about-hyenas-is-wrong-these-animals-are-fierce-social-and-incredibly-smart

The Audacious Project: Notes from Session 4 of TED2018, with 7 bold ideas for global change — and $406 million to support them

The lights go down. A voice emerges — strong and hopeful. It’s Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of philanthropic powerhouse Emerson Collective. “Among the many things I love about TED is the simplicity and clarity of its mission — to spread ideas,” she says. “But in order to create lasting change at scale, we need to turn the boldest of thes...
Posted April 12, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/04/12/the-audacious-project-notes-from-session-4-of-ted2018-with-7-bold-ideas-for-global-change-and-406-million-to-support-them

Want to be happy? Slow down

In 1972, Matthieu Ricard had a promising career in biochemistry, trying to figure out the secrets of E. coli bacteria. A chance encounter with Buddhism led to an about turn, and Ricard has spent the past 40+ years living in the Himalayas, studying mindfulness and happiness. In this free-wheeling discussion at TED Global in October 2014, Ricard t...
Posted January 23, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/want-to-be-happy-slow-down

Scenes from a pandemic: Firsthand stories of life in 23 countries, from the TED Fellows

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...
Posted April 10, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/scenes-from-a-global-pandemic-heres-what-life-is-like-in-23-countries-from-the-ted-fellows

Your holiday reading list: 58 books recommended by TED speakers

From tech to self-help via poetry, fiction and graphic novels, here are the books you need to read. What’s the one book you're always thrilled to discover that someone else has read? We posed that question to TED speakers -- and, well, they geeked out, offering us a list of hidden gems that wouldn’t typically crop up on a holiday shopping list....
Posted December 7, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/your-holiday-reading-list-58-books-recommended-by-ted-speakers

Introductory essay

Written by the educator who created What Makes Us Human?, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in his field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. As a biological anthropologist, I never liked drawing sharp distinctions between human and non-human. Such boundaries ma...
https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/evolution/introductory-essay

Bono: My wish: Three actions for Africa

Musician and activist Bono accepts the 2005 TED Prize with a riveting talk, arguing that aid to Africa isn't just another celebrity cause; it's a global emergency.
https://www.ted.com/talks/bono_my_wish_three_actions_for_africa

Matteo Salvadore: The imaginary king who changed the real world

In 1165, copies of a strange letter began to circulate throughout Europe. It spoke of a fantastical realm, containing the Tower of Babel and the Fountain of Youth— all ruled over by the letter's mysterious author: Prester John. Who was this powerful ruler, and was he even real? Matteo Salvadore shares the legend of a mythical king who impacted t...
https://www.ted.com/talks/matteo_salvadore_the_imaginary_king_who_changed_the_real_world

Melinda Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola

Melinda Gates makes a provocative case: What can nonprofits learn from mega-corporations like Coca-Cola, whose global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote village wants -- and can get -- an ice-cold Coke? Maybe this model could work for distributing health care, vaccinations, sanitation, even condoms ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_gates_what_nonprofits_can_learn_from_coca_cola

Xavier Vilalta: Architecture at home in its community

When TED Fellow Xavier Vilalta was commissioned to create a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, he panicked. Other centers represented everything he hated about contemporary architecture: wasteful, glass towers requiring tons of energy whose design had absolutely nothing to do with Africa. In this charming talk, Vilalta shows how he champio...
https://www.ted.com/talks/xavier_vilalta_architecture_at_home_in_its_community

Mike O'Sullivan: The end of globalization (and the beginning of something new)

"Globalization is on its deathbed," says economist Mike O'Sullivan. The question now is: What's next? Tracing the historical successes and failures of globalization, O'Sullivan forecasts a new world order where countries come together over shared values rather than geography. Learn how big regional powers like the United States and China will be...
https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_o_sullivan_the_end_of_globalization_and_the_beginning_of_something_new

Lord Nicholas Stern: The state of the climate — and what we might do about it

How can we begin to address the global, insidious problem of climate change — a problem that's too big for any one country to solve? Economist Nicholas Stern lays out a plan, presented to the UN's Climate Summit in 2014, showing how the world's countries can work together on climate. It's a big vision for cooperation, with a payoff that goes far...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lord_nicholas_stern_the_state_of_the_climate_and_what_we_might_do_about_it

Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds

Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. "The world is alive with musical expression," she says. "We are already immersed."
https://www.ted.com/talks/meklit_hadero_the_unexpected_beauty_of_everyday_sounds
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