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 ...

About this event: There are more people who capitulate than those who fail. Henry Ford The topic of the first TEDxTomsk conference is “TO ERR IS HUMAN” Is the meaning of mistake changing in contemporary world? “My mistake – I remained an employee for too long. I was unhappy, because all this time I did not learn anything useful. I could have started ...

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,...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

About this event: On February 27th 2013, LSx will be presenting an evening simulcast of the third day of TED2013: The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered. Streaming live from Long Beach to Leeds, the simulcast will feature sessions 4 and 5, with thirteen speakers from the TED2013 programme’s Disrupt! and Dream! segments… Session 4: Disrupt! (4:30 – 6:15 PM) ...

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...

About this event: The fact that we live in a deep gravity well in a gas covered planet which goes around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and it still feels like another Tuesday proves the significance of perspective in our lives. We believe that a right perspective can change our lives. TEDxGCEK, the youngest member of TED community plans to represent t...

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...

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...

About this event: Every Saturday (except for the last on of the month) we show two videos of talks from the renowned TED conferences followed by a casual discussion. Why TED Talks? We believe that our world needs to intelligently reassess our systems of governance, education, and cultural narratives. We need to creatively think about the roles of technology...

About this event: Happy New Year and a fabulous start into the new decade! Let's have a look at how we are doing: In analysis of recent data on homicide, war, poverty, pollution and more, what do we find? Are we doing better now in every one of them when compared with 30 years ago? Progress is problem-solving, and should we not look at things like climate chang...

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...

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...

About this event: You are cordially invited to the next TEDxTheHague salon! Our October edition — themed The Joy of Tinkering — is curated by Paul Rudenko and Ralph Oei. Ralph writes: "When I was young, I loved to take things apart. Our home was littered with the dismembered remains of toasters, radios, turntables and batteries. At some point, I managed to re...

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...

How to explain the stunning political upheaval of 2016 -- Brexit in the UK and Donald Trump’s election to the presidency in the US -- as well as the current and ongoing atmosphere of division, discontent and disquiet that fills many people’s lives? One simple answer: “We’ve lost our story,” says Jerusalem University historian Yuval Harari, i...

Holly Morris tells the stories of women through documentary, television, print and the web. One story she certainly didn't expect stemmed from a reporting trip to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. She just wanted to get out of the contaminated zone as quickly as possible ... and then she noti...

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...

Many people ask, “How are speakers selected for TEDWomen? The answer is that speakers, like ideas, come from many different sources. TED has an open recommendation process on TED.com, and we review those as well as suggestions that come in from everywhere. Sometimes people self nominate but mostly, fans of TEDTalks submit names of women and ...

About this event: “gaze at Japan from the world ~after a year from the disaster~” The first ever TEDx event in Hokkaido prefecture with intention of making a larger event every year. This time we was open to public without any invitation on the basis of first come first served style. Large marketing on Social network the ideas will include introducing the phil...

Deborah Rhodes' spectacular collaboration with a nuclear physicist led to a breakthrough in breast cancer detection. Kate Orff introduces us to the new hero of ecology: the oyster. Amber Case is a "cyborg anthropologist" -- she studies the symbiotic relationship between humans and machines. The Ahn Trio: With cello, piano and violin, si...

Before you can create a new world, you have to imagine new possibilities. The speakers in this session are the visionaries who propose that which couldn't be seen before, and suggest new paths that not only haven't been traveled yet -- but haven't been thought of. Here are the speakers in this session. Click their name to read a recap of thei...