The TED staff got up to dance this afternoon to celebrate V-Day. This global movement, founded by TED speaker Eve Ensler, turns 15 today and is celebrating with the One Billion Rising campaign -- inviting us to stop, dance and rise against violence. One Billion Rising is dedicated to the 1 in 3 of the world’s 3 million women who have been the...

Tired of working the same old way? Maybe it's time to update your approach. These talks will inspire you to make the innovative shifts needed to foster a better and more successful professional mindset.

Stacey Baker assigns photography for the wide-ranging vision of the weekly New York Times Magazine.

Yann LeCun is chief AI scientist at Facebook and Silver Professor at New York University.

New York's Times Square regularly fills up for great public events, the crowd chanting and cheering. Rarely, however, do they chant, "Science! Science! Science!" as they did last night. An extraordinary number of people came out at 1:31am to watch the landing of Curiosity, NASA's new Mars rover. The TED Blog decided it would be fun to wat...

No television special exploring ideas on improving education in the United States would be complete without hearing from students themselves. And so it was essential that students be able to tell their own stories during our first television special, TED Talks Education, which premiered on PBS last night. To that end, we invited Market Road F...

Marcia Belsky is a New York City-based stand-up comedian, writer and musician.

Writer, actor, comedian, Maysoon Zayid is the co-founder of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival.

“If you’re a teen, you’ve been called apathetic, narcissistic and social-media obsessed,” said Taylor Trudon, the youth editor at Huffington Post. Standing tall in a crisp white blazer, the 25-year-old shared how she went from keeping a high school diary — decorated with stickers and magazine clippings of John Mayer and Uggs — to becoming th...

On an unseasonably chilly Monday evening in Manhattan, hundreds stood in line in Times Square for up to two hours. As a city-dweller for seven years, I’ve seen queues this long for big Broadway openings or on New Year’s Eve. But this line was formed for a very different purpose -- for people to have their faces and stories featured in what J...

From April to June 2012, TED will be throwing 14 events around the world to search for unheard voices that need to be seen onstage at TED2013. Learn more about TED2013 Worldwide Talent Search >> Just announced: Applications are open now to appear at the event in New York! If TED@NewYork is the closest event to you geographically, ap...

Madison McFerrin is an independent singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York, with a distinctive "soul-appella" sound.

In the first of a series of city-related articles, we profile Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence at the Department of Sanitation and long-time resident of New York City. She describes a life dedicated to, well, trash, and documents some of her favorite locations throughout the American city's boroughs, captured in an accompanying photoessa...

Aja Monet is a Caribbean American surrealist blues poet, storyteller and organizer born in Brooklyn, New York.

Caroline Weaver owns CW Pencil Enterprise, a wood-cased pencil specialty shop in New York City.

Michael Bierut is a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, a founder of Design Observer and a teacher at Yale School of Art and Yale School of Management.

Born in Japan's Hyogo prefecture, Rei spent her childhood years in New York and now sings her unique, self-penned lyrics in both Japanese and English.

Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and author of "Futureproof," writes about the many ways humans attempt to live alongside machines.

Danielle R. Moss is chief executive officer of Oliver Scholars, helping it prepare high-potential Black and Latinx students from underserved New York City communities for success.

Andrew Fitzgerald is shaping new ways for Twitter and journalists to work together.

David Kwong creates illusions for films and TV, and makes verbal magic as a crossword puzzle maker for the New York Times.

Percussionist and composer Susie Ibarra is creating virtual sanctuaries for real cities. Working in collaboration with local artists, historians, architects, city planners and musicians, Ibarra and her partner Roberto Rodriguez -- who together form Electric Kulintang -- have created a musical pilgrimage that takes the public on a sound walk ...

With an outspoken approach to the problems of rebuilding cites and a fearless eye for design, Reed Kroloff is helping to change the urban landscape of cities from New York to New Orleans.

By Shyam Sankar and Gabe Rosen The Internet is the new Wild West, a frontier big enough for every pioneer and outlaw to roam free. Today, The New York Times revealed that hackers in China had spent the last four months infiltrating its computer systems and pilfering employee passwords. As in the old West, it’s not a question of if you’ll ...

Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer for the New Yorker and is the author of "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error."

Daniel Engber explores science and culture as an award-winning journalist for Radiolab, the New York Times, Slate and Wired, among others.

Jer Thorp’s work focuses on adding meaning and narrative to huge amounts of data as a way to help people take control of the information that surrounds them.

Dr. Tracie Keesee is committed to making the New York Police Department the most diverse and inclusive police department in the world.

Giorgia Lupi sees beauty in data. She challenges the impersonality that data communicate, designing engaging visual narratives that re-connect numbers to what they stand for: stories, people, ideas.

The image itself looks laid back enough — a 20-year-old man in a hoodie and jeans, walking through New York City. Except that this image is 150 feet tall and pasted on a plaza near the Flatiron Building. Cabs and cars flow around him while pedestrians scamper past. This image, created by TED Prize winner JR, is on the cover of The New Yor...