Have you ever wanted to watch Hans Rosling premiere a brand-new talk live onstage? In just 4 hours, at 7:30 AST / 4:30pm GST / 12:30pm EDT, tune in to tedxsummit.ted.com or watch on AlJazeera.com to watch a free two-hour livestream from TEDxSummit Opening Night, a full session of TED with speakers, performers and TED magic. Hans ...

Today, July 11, is World Population Day. Established by the Governing Council of the United Nation Development Program in 1989, to commemorate the day global population reached five billion two years earlier, World Population Day strives to raise awareness about the issues created by the growing number of people in the world. Twenty-four yea...

A list of the talks mentioned in TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking. Chris Anderson's comments on each talk (in the grey italics) indicate why they were included in the book. Use the book index for more info.

About this event: On September 20 the global event TEDxChange was organized by TED and the Gates Foundation. In Amsterdam, a group of 100 guests joined to watch the live TEDxChange Webcast from NewYork together, that featured speakers like Melinda Gates, Graça Machel and Hans Rosling. The audience then listened to eight people who travelled to Amsterdam to presen...

Yesterday, Twitter user @ademoor wrote: Thinking of organizing a #TEDtalk video night w/ some friends. What's your absolute favorite must-see talk? Great question! We RT'ed on @TEDNews. And the replies are worth sharing: @WackyFiasco: I really appreciated Dan Gilbert's talk on happiness ... @ozteethtweet: hans rosling, can't get ...

About this event: At our TEDxBarcelonaSalon events we foster networking, dialog and the discussion among all members of TEDxBarcelona. In order to achieve this we meet once a month and listen to an interesting talk. After watching the talk we discuss about the presented subject using the socratic dialog. In order to make this event effective we limit the number o...

Just a few of the intriguing headlines involving members of the TED community this week: The cascading effect of small lies. Tali Sharot is the senior author on a paper published in Nature Neuroscience that sheds light on the possible slippery-slope effect of telling small, self-serving lies. Using an fMRI scanning device to monitor the a...

Browse the Time 100 list -- and let it point you to great TEDTalks! Hillary Clinton: "Tough. Indefatigable. Patient. Smart. Knowledgeable. Superior political instincts. Funny. Loyal team player. Finds opportunities in crises and challenges. Skilled global advocate for American interests and American values. That is my job description for ...

As we celebrate the end of 2020 ... what captured our imaginations, reflected our emotions and sparked hope for a better tomorrow? Here's a wide-ranging list of the talks that stayed with us this year (along with some hidden gems), selected by the editorial team at TED.

From overcoming adversity to the latest in tech—these are the talks you binge-watched this year.

TEDxChange, themed “Positive Disruption,” kicks off shortly -- at 9am (PDT) at the Gates Foundation campus in Seattle, Washington -- and anyone, anywhere is invited to watch along through the livestream at TED.com or via TEDxChange.org. Yesterday, we gave you three reasons to tune in and shared with you the amazing speakers who’ll take the stage...

Many unusual things have happened on the TED stage over the years. Our incredible speakers have done everything from perform magic tricks to attempt to set themselves on fire, all in the name of spreading their ideas. Although far from a complete list, here are some of the weirdest TED moments that we still haven’t stopped puzzling over. To many...

TED2013, “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered,” begins in just 20 days and we at the TED Blog are gearing up to bring you live reporting on each of the 70 speakers who’ll be ascending the stage, not to mention assorted news from the scene in Long Beach, California. One thing we hope to see more of at this amazing event: props. There’s some...

One year ago today, we launched our platform for long-form conversations: TED Conversations. Since that time the TED Conversation community has held 6,435 Conversations, on topics such as: How can computer models help us build intuition? Where do you use math in your profession? Can we ever know how another person "senses" the world?...

About this event: Live Webcast of TEDWomen event http://conferences.ted.com/TEDWomen/ 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM Session 1: Overtur (Mexico city time) * Hanna Rosin- Journalist * Ted Turner- Media entrepreneur, philanthropist * Halla Tomasdottir-Change agent, financial services * Hans Rosling- Global health expert; data visionary * Elle...

The animal you see in this watercolor-washed illustration is not a camel. This is, technically, a dromedary. Anja Kantowsky, a communications consultant who lives in Germany, created this image at the TEDSalon Berlin in June as she watched a talk from nine-time TED speaker Hans Rosling and his son Ola Rosling that used the differences betwee...

About this event: In 2015, we curated our 33rd and most significant TEDxSingapore ever since we were founded six years ago. 'The Undiscovered Country' celebrated the rich diversity of ideas, talents and stories from Singapore’s past and present, and explored and asked: What latent potential lie within us and in Singapore? What runs deep within you about our pa...

On Monday, April 16, watch a session of TED streaming live to the world -- at TEDxSummit Opening Night. Curated by TEDGlobal's own Bruno Giussani, it's a two-hour session with TEDTalks favorites (Hans Rosling, Raghava KK) and vital voices from the Middle East. Watch this irreverent promo for TEDxSummit Opening Night >> Get the ful...

President Barack Obama ended his 2013 State of the Union address just minutes ago saying, “We are citizens. It’s a word that doesn’t just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we’re made … Well into our third century as a nation, it remains the task of us all, as citizens of these United States, to be the authors of the ...

Welcome to the world, Prince(ss) XX! As per tradition, the birth announcement was posted on an easel in front of Buckingham Palace, listing the baby's weight and time of birth — XX lbs at XX:XX o'clock. As the world celebrates the momentous nativity of the third in line to the British throne, take some time to make sense of this baby's birth wit...

A selection of fascinating TED Talks for when you need to feed your intellectual curiosity (in 10 minutes or less).

Written by the educators who created Visualizing Data, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. The reality of today All of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the We...

Amanda Little is a professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University.

Lili Haydn brings fresh energy and a collaborative spirit to the violin.

The speaker lineup for the TED2017 conference features more than 70 thinkers and doers from around the world -- including a dozen or so whose unfiltered TED Talks will be broadcast live to movie theater audiences across the U.S. and Canada. Presented with our partner BY Experience, our TED Cinema Experience event series offers three opportuni...

Next week, in Doha, Qatar, we're launching a four-day-long workshop called TEDxSummit -- where 700 TEDx organizers from around the world will meet to take classes and learn from one another how to make great local TEDx events. And to kick off the summit, we're throwing a session of TED -- and inviting the world to watch live! Mark your...

Georgette Mulheir is a pioneer for the movement to end child abuse in the form of orphanages.

Siddharthan Chandran explores how to heal damage from degenerative disorders such as MS and motor neuron disease (ALS).

  Asphalt Orchestra storms the stage.   Hanna Rosin: For every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.   TEDWomen co-producer Pat Mitchell talks to entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner.   Halla Tomasdottir talks about bringing feminine values into finance.   Carto...

Session 4 of TED2017 kicked off with an interview with perhaps the greatest athlete of all time, Serena Williams, and closed with the potentially world-changing announcement of this year's TED Prize wish from Raj Panjabi. In between, the session saw a surprise talk directly from the Vatican by His Holiness Pope Francis -- the culmination of a ye...