For a teenage girl, few things are more awkward than developing a good relationship with her father. This is something that Angela Patton knows well after years of listening to the girls at Camp Diva, her nonprofit dedicated to empowering African-American girls, talk about their dads. Patton wanted to help her campers find a way to invite their ...

Adam Savage is an internationally renowned television producer, host and public speaker.

Iraqi-born Zainab Salbi founded and runs Women for Women International, and has dedicated her life to helping women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives and communities.

Known for his unusual approach to everyday issues, Andri Snær Magnason is a storyteller and environmental activist.

In the past week, we’ve noticed some fascinating TED-related news. Here, some highlights. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has discontinued its iconic candy-hued metal admission tags. Museum director Thomas P. Campbell (watch his TED Talk) explains why to The New York Times -- because of the rising cost of tin-plating. Angela Patton (watch her T...

Fredy Peccerelli works with families whose loved ones “disappeared” in the 36-year armed conflict in Guatemala. The executive director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, he helps locate bodies and give back identities to those buried in mass graves.

Molly Winter works on legalizing sustainable building practices.

In his TED Talk, Steven Addis shared a tradition that he and his daughter have kept for 15 years, since she was just 1 year old. On a father-daughter trip to New York City, the pair asks a stranger to snap a photo of them on the exact same street corner. Addis calls these photos his 15 most treasured images. Yesterday, Addis and his daugh...

Shanghai. New York. Tehran. Tokyo. Today, dozens of cities worldwide are each home to many millions of people. But those masses of humanity might not exist in such tight quarters if not for John Snow. (No, not that Jon Snow. This John Snow.) Snow was a 19th-century English doctor who's credited with proving that cholera, a sometimes deadly in...

With Rosh Hashanah fast approaching, Sara Beth Berman of the Davis Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, wanted to create a lesson for the school’s middle school students around the ideas of empathy and forgiveness. “In the month preceding the Jewish New Year, we talk a lot about how to forgive, how to accept forgiveness, and how do you want to be...

Jorge Drexler is a musician and the first Uruguayan to win an Oscar. His music plays with genre and influence, combining subtle harmonies and regional styles with electronic effects.

Shaffi Mather is the founder of 1298 for Ambulance, Education Access for All, and co-promoter of Moksha-Yug Access.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas works on machine learning at Google. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, he has worked on augmented reality, mapping, wearable computing and natural user interfaces.

About this event: A Youth event at an international school in Denmark organised by two female students. The conference will include a variety of speakers and topics, among others a talk by a vaccine expert regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, a look back on previous pandemics and their political impacts by a historian from Aarhus University, a fresh idea about humanit...

Alexander Betts explores ways societies might empower refugees rather than pushing them to the margins.

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...

Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater installations offer views of another world, where the artistic efforts of man meet the vivifying power of nature.

Vinay Venkatraman aims to design technological devices for the "bottom of the pyramid" rather than simply for the affluent.

About this event: Our event was organised by the Year 11 students of the college for the Year 10 students of the College. Yassmin Abdel-Magied - Young Queenslander of the year Dr. Paul Burton of Griffith University - The Adolescent Cities Peter Trimble from V8 Super Cars Jay Brohier a singer and song writer Jade Wilson a Year 11 student talking about livi...

About this event: TEDxRUPP represents an integration of a world-class event TEDx and Royal University Phnom Penh (RUPP), one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Cambodia, resonating the legacy of Cambodia’s King Father Norodom Sihanouk and architectural legacy of a talented Cambodian architecture Vann Molyvann. Our objectives • Empower local way o...

About this event: Following the success of TEDxYouth@OIS in November 2014, Oberoi International is proud to present TEDxYouth@OIS in January 2016. Keeping in mind the constantly changing world and the improbability of being able to encompass all the changes that have made a difference under one theme, TEDxYouth@OIS presents to you – Think.Speak.Inspire. In tandem...

Johann Hari is the author of two "New York Times" best-selling books.

Betty Hart advocates for curiosity, diversity, empathy and valuing the whole of a person rather than individual aspects.

Priya Parker teaches people to gather better at home, at work, at school and in our communities.

Tyler DeWitt recognizes that textbooks are not the way to get young people interested in science. Instead, he teaches science by making it fun and fantastical.

Researcher Matt Killingsworth designs studies that gather data on happiness. One takeaway? "A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind."

Philippa Neave is senior advisor on the UN's Lexicon of Electoral Terminology.

Atomic physicist Joshua Silver invented liquid-filled optical lenses to produce low-cost, adjustable glasses, giving sight to millions without access to an optometrist.

Jamais Cascio follows the threads of civilization's intended (and unintended) consequences into an unpredictable future, bringing back glimpses of a green world wired beyond our wildest dreams.

Heather Barnett creates art with slime mold -- a material used in diverse areas of scientific research, including biological computing, robotics and structural design.