Paul Gilding is an independent writer, activist and adviser on a sustainable economy. Click through to watch the onstage debate that followed this talk.

Taylor Wilson has been called “The Boy Who Played With Fusion” by Popular Science magazine. At age 9, Wilson stunned tour guides at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with his complex understanding of rocket science. At 12, he set out to make a “star in a jar.” By 14, Wilson had become the youngest person to achieve nuc...

About this event: Time: 7:00PM-9:00PM(JST) TED2014 Simulcast: All-Stars Session 2: Beauty and the Brain Tierney Thys – Marine biologist Dan Gilbert – Psychologist; happiness expert Emily Levine – Philosopher-comic David Brooks – Columnist Jane McGonigal – Game Designer Neil Turok – Physicist, education activist Rory Sutherland – Advertisin...

About this event: Talks discussed: Michael Shellenberger: How Fear of Nuclear Power is Hurting the Environment Monica Araya: A Small Country with Big Ideas to Get Rid of Fossil Fuels Taylor Wilson: The Future of Energy Total Attendees: 12 Link to public presentation: https://prezi.com/view/ZK9VLkX2eZ7EPQSFutD0/

About this event: This is our second event. Speakers are movie director/producer, young ambitious university student, innovative English teacher, high school solar car project leader, photographer, architect, traditional dancer, artist, social enterprise innovator, free diver, deep sea explorer, doctor, and nuclear researcher.

About this event: At TEDxPaloAltoSalon Rethink 2019, we will hear from an extraordinary lineup of individuals rethinking our understanding of epigenetics, musical performance, neuro technology, belief systems, origami, nuclear power and more.

Five years ago, a tsunami and nuclear disaster led to the mass evacuation of the Fukushima region of Japan. Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart covered the aftermath; last September he returned for a month to see how the situation has progressed. Here, he shares some of his portraits and reflections about the trip. [gallery link="none" c...

"Remember before the internet?" asks Joi Ito. "Remember when people used to try to predict the future?" In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead shares a new approach to creating in the moment: building quickly and improving constantly, without waiting for permission or for proof that you have...

In telling stories of technologies and the individuals who created them, George Dyson takes a clear-eyed view of our scientific past -- while illuminating what lies ahead.

As computer access expands, Mikko Hypponen asks: What's the next killer virus, and will the world be able to cope with it? And also: How can we protect digital privacy in the age of government surveillance?

About this event: The Designer The Mouth Musician The Nuclear Scientist The Yo-yo Champion The Legal Activist What do all these people have in common? Find out in the Barrett Suite on 2/27. Killer speakers in a live stream from TED 2013: The Young, The Wise, The Undiscovered. Lively discussions, food, drink, and ideas worth spreading.

By Liz Jacobs and Thu-Huong Ha   Our brains work in mysterious ways. They make us laugh, they make us cry, and sometimes, they make us 19-year old geniuses. The 11 speakers in this All-Stars session specialize in areas of the brain as diverse as personality, trauma and gender, but they all agree: Our minds matter. Below, read a deta...

In January 2020, a new advice column from New York City psychologist Guy Winch, who has given two beautifully thoughtful and helpful TED Talks and written one TED book, will appear on TED.com. Called “Dear Guy,” the column will consist of Guy’s answers to questions from readers. As we’re preparing to publish it, we’ve realized this: We need ...

TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built specially for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, two new playlists are available: Animals that amaze and The end of oil? Animals that amaze At TED there's a certain species of speaker who is absolutely devoted to all kinds of weird beasts...

What are the tools we're using to build the future? Session 3 speakers go deep on what's next in finance, energy, business and the structures we live in. The next generation of trust on the Internet. For many online transactions, we rely on middlemen like banks and government to establish trust -- but these systems face growing issues lik...

About this event: Humanity stands on a crossroad: will this be the best or worst century to come? How do we protect ourselves against emerging populism, nuclear warfare, ecological disaster, and technological threats? At the same time, our contemporary society can be defined through the endless possibilities for a better producible future. The TEDxHvAmsterdam wan...

How an elite squad of Tokyo firefighters found the courage to confront the Fukushima nuclear disaster. On March 18, 2011, Tokyo fire division chief Yasuo Sato (TEDxSeeds Talk: How we put out the fire in Japan’s nuclear reactor) dispatched 119 firefighters to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster zone, six days after a series of explosions tore through...

Chemist Rebecca Abergel and her colleagues have found a way to remove radioactive contaminants from the body. Now they are trying to put their solution in a pill. After the US dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War Two, more than 100,000 people died -- many from exposure to radiation. At high doses,...

When Hillary Clinton became the first female nominee of a major political party in the United States this summer, she reflected that this achievement "belongs to generations of women and men who struggled, sacrificed and made this moment possible." Women have been leaders throughout history, making positive changes in their communities. But in s...

Last week, the editors of Time magazine published a list of 30 people under 30 who are changing the world, with the help of a panel of millennials. On the list: six teenagers and twenty-somethings with TED connections. We at TED have had youth on the brain recently. TED2013 was themed “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.” and we’re sti...

"The whole planet needs a lot of energy," begins Michel Laberge, in an understatement. So far, he says, we've been running on fossil fuels, and it's been difficult to find something as cost-effective to replace them. Laberge is a fan of nuclear power, which he thinks is the best solution to that problem in the long run.There are two ways to prod...

In the new TED Book, Would You Stay?, photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart travels to Chernobyl and Fukushima to try to understand why people refuse to leave these areas despite the risks. Pulling together stunning photos, moving words, recorded interviews and multimedia maps, Rothbart weaves a complex narrative and poses an even tougher...

About this event: This TEDxNorrköpingLive event consists of TED2013 simulcasted from TED2013, Long Beach, CA. 17:30 Session 4, Disrupt!: Alastair Parvin, Designer Danny Hillis, Computer theorist Sanjay Dastoor; Roboticist BLACK, Yo-yo champion Lesley Perkes, Public art instigator Sergey Brin, Co-founder Amanda Palmer, Musician, blogger Larry Lessig, ...

About this event: Inspiration for this event comes from the notion of a particle accelerator. The accelerator can bring about nuclear fusion and fission. Fusion generates new material and enormous energy through the collision of two different atomic nuclei. Fission creates energy through the chain reaction which occurs when a neutron hits an atomic nucleus. In ...

Autumn and Yuji are surfers who fell in love on the beach of Motoyoshi, a beautiful spot in Japan above Sendai where northern and southern currents meet. A month after Motoyoshi was hit by a tsunami in 2011, triggering a nuclear disaster at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the two made a startling decision -- they came back to help w...

TED Conversations is a unique space where any member of this community can get feedback on an idea, pose an interesting question, or start a fascinating debate with fellow TEDizens from around the globe. This week, dozens of new conversations were started — on topics ranging from the importance of letter-writing to the existence of infinity.  He...

About this event: Threats to global peace and security have intensified since the 20th Century, today ranging from nuclear war, climate change, global terrorism, global health epidemics, financial crisis and others. While worrying, these threats to global peace might also provide the impetus for a new kind of collective commitment and cooperation, for new approac...

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Welcome to Autonomous Agile Aerial Robots i.e. flying robots that can move like anything. Vijay Kumar, a professor at University of Pennsylvania, makes robots related to unmanned airplanes. But those are big and heavy and aren't autonomous -- they need humans to pilot them. The robots he works with are tiny...

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Ken Mogi, a Ph.D and researcher from the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo, bears a flag nearly twice his height, bright blue, covered with images of koi fish and Japanese letters. He begins by reminding us about a tragically transformative day in his country on March 11, 2011 that would change tens if...

They might not be old enough to rent a car solo or to order a glass of wine, but they certainly have what it takes to deliver a fascinating talk on a bold idea. In this playlist, we highlight incredible TED speakers under the age of 20.From Taylor Wilson, 17, and his nuclear fusion reactor to Richard Turere, 13, and his invention to ward off lio...