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: TEDxUWCCR was an independently organized TED event held at Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, San Pedro. As a "United World TEDx," speakers from over 15 countries were present including MIT professor and quantum physicist Seth Lloyd, CNN Reporter Sebastian Castro and the Director of the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education, Mohit Mukherjee.

Es Devlin is an artist and designer practicing across the worlds of art, music and technology.

Myles Allen studies how human activities and natural drivers contribute to changes in global climate and risks of extreme weather.

About this event: This event will be a simulcast of the TED Conference - The Next Chapter on Tuesday, March 18th. http://conferences.ted.com/TED2014/program/guide.php Session 2: Retrospect 11:30 am - 1:15 pm Bran Ferren - Technology Designer Marc Kushner - Architect Raspyni Brothers - Jugglers Yoruba Richen - Documentary filmmaker Mark Ronson - Music Pro...

Particle physics. To some, the words may produce anxiety. And while, yes, it is complicated -- it is far from incomprehensible. On May 3, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, better known as CERN, held its first TEDx event, an illuminating look at how particle physics intersects with other disciplines. As part of TEDxCERN, physicists...

Uri Alon studies how cells work, using an array of tools (including improv theater) to understand the biological circuits that perform the functions of life.

About this event: TEDxBrentwoodCollegeSchool is an organized and hosted by Brentwood College School. Did we mention how excited we are to be hosting this? Well let us tell you, we are jacked! Stoked! Thrilled! This is magic and a great way for this community to get together and share ideas, thoughts, insights, those aha moments in a brilliant setting. Our the...

Boaz Almog uses quantum physics to levitate and trap objects in midair. Call it "quantum levitation."

About this event: This event is TED 2014 simulcast event. We will watch the Session 2, 3, 4 on March 18th, 2014. Session 2: Retrospect Bran Ferren - Technology designer Marc Kushner - Architect Raspyni Brothers - Jugglers Yoruba Richen - Documentary filmmaker Mark Ronson - Music Producer and DJ Session 3: Reshape Michel Laberge - Plasma physicist A...

Wednesday marked the second-ever TEDxCERN, the event organized by the folks at CERN, the famed particle physics research center in Geneva, Switzerland, responsible for bringing us the World Wide Web, the Large Hadron Collider, and confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson. You know, just a few minor things. TEDxCERN brought togethe...

Featured image: Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, who first developed the theory explaining the process of nuclear fission. Theoretical physicist (and TED Fellow) Shohini Ghose has two great passions: physics, and advocating for gender equity in the sciences. “There are still relatively few women in physics – and the higher up the ladder in ac...

On September 24, TEDxCERN was hosted by physicist Brian Cox (watch his TED Talk: "CERN's supercollider"), and the world was welcomed to watch for free. Below, an appetite-whetter that originally ran on the TEDx Innovations Blog. Cosmic rays. Active galactic nuclei. Nucleosynthesis. For physicist Veronica Bindi, this is everyday vocabula...

I just might have the best job in the world. As a particle physicist and professor at Yale, I am a happy cog on the wheel of humanity, trying to understand the universe. I collaborate with brilliant people, young and old, from all over the globe. But while I love my job, the truth is I am part of a system that is rigged. We have come a long w...

About this event: Este es un evento TEDxLive para que todas las personas de nuestra comuidad tengan la oportunidad de ver una selección de las charlas de TED2017 en nuestro instituto. Este año la conferencia TED2017 tiene como título "The Future You" (El Futuro Tú) Durante una semana llena de emociones, del 24 al 28 de abril de 2017,un programa con más de 70 ora...

The theme of TED2018 is The Age of Amazement, and these speakers’ books are bursting with wonders of every kind: intellectual, scientific, urban, technological, economic, historical, aquatic, even extraterrestrial. TED2018, our biggest conference of the year, takes place April 10 through 14 in Vancouver. The talks from the conference will be re...

"Science, we generally are told, is a very well-ordered mechanism for understanding the world, for gaining facts, for gaining data," biologist Stuart Firestein says in today's TED talk. "I'd like to tell you that's not the case." Instead, Firestein proposes that science is really about ignorance -- about seeking answers rather than collec...

Allan Adams "became a physicist to understand how the world works at its most fundamental level." Adams, a professor of theoretical physics at MIT, points out that the things we've learned so far are pretty incredible: We know the universe began just 13.8 billion years ago, and have a pretty good idea how it's going to end. We have a recipe ...

Why is there something rather than nothing? In his book "Why Does the World Exist?" Jim Holt dares to ask.

It’s just a teeny, tiny question: How did the universe begin? Today, TED-Ed has unveiled a new lesson that answers this in less than four minutes, “The beginning of the universe, for beginners.” This is the first of five animated lessons developed by CERN scientists and brought to life by TED-Ed’s talented animators. The other four animati...

While the TED Blog chills for the next two weeks, take a break to read some of our favorite pieces from around the Internet over the past seven days: A fascinating, at times hilarious, look at business management practices in high-threat terrorist organizations. [Foreign Affairs] A profile of Laura Poitras, the documentary filmmaker who helped...

TEDYouth session two has just finished. You can read about each of the 12 speakers below, and also see summaries of the Session 1 speakers here. Olivier Guyon, Optical Physicist and Astronomer Olivier designs powerful telescopes that search for exoplanets — earth-like planets that exist outside of our solar system. The problem with search f...

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Taylor Wilson is a 17-year old nuclear physicist. No, really. He charms the audience from the get-go, making the case that "you know, as a scientist, the glass is always 100% full, with water and air." But he's really here to make two cases: that nuclear fusion will be the energy of the future, and that kids c...

About this event: 2014 is TED’s 30th anniversary, and to mark the occasion something very special is planned. Join TEDxConejo for a free LIVE simulcast from Vancouver. This is NOT available online. TUESDAY, March 18, 2014 8:30 – 10:15am: Retrospect Bran Ferren - Technology Designer Marc Kushner - Architect Raspyni Brothers - Jugglers Yoruba Rich...

About this event: Get ready for a day full of inspiration The moment is here: you can now book your ticket for the 2016 edition of TEDxGhent Main Event! In the background, we are preparing tirelessly to bring you the brightest ideas worth spreading. Curious about the menu this year? Enjoy a sneak peak of the topics below. We will hear about a painfully curren...

Particle physicist + educator

It's time for TED! Photo: TED / Robert Leslie Astronaut Cady Coleman talks to the audience newly assembled in Long Beach, Palm Springs and all over the world, from her home in zero-gravity on the International Space Station. Watch her talk. Then Gregory Groover Jr., from TED2011's house band, the Berklee City Music All-Stars, p...

Mathematics gets down to work in these talks, breathing life and logic into everyday problems. Prepare for math puzzlers both solved and unsolvable, and even some still waiting for solutions. Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs When Ron Eglash first saw an aerial photo of an African village, he couldn’t rest until he...

The 2012 Paralympic Games are underway in London, and several TED speakers are right there on the front lines. During Wednesday night’s dazzling Opening Ceremony, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking took the stage to expound on the evening’s theme of Enlightenment. “What is it,” he asked, as the performers around him brought Big Bang imager...

There's a particular occupational hazard associated with covering TED conferences: having your mind blown. University of Pennsylvania physicist and applied engineer Aaswath Raman does just that with his rethinking of air-conditioning. Now, as anyone who's ever escaped to the movies on a scorching day can attest, sitting in a room that has be...