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2014 annual report: TED Open Translation Project

From the director Whenever we talk about the origins of the Open Translation Project, we are always quick to give you most of the credit. Before there was ever an OTP, viewers like you were writing us and volunteering to translate talks by speakers like Jill Bolte Taylor, Hans Rosling and Sir Ken Robinson. You wanted to share their ideas with pe...
https://www.ted.com/participate/translate/otp-2014-annual-report

Chris Nowinski | TED Speaker

Dr. Chris Nowinski is leading a global conversation on concussions, CTE and the future of sports.
Social entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/chris_nowinski

TEDxLondonChange - an independently organized event

About this event: A livecast of TEDxChange 2013 (Seattle, Washington). The event is free to attend. No live speakers. TEDxChange TEDxChange is an event created out of a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the TEDx program. It is an initiative devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TE...
Event details: London, London, City of, United Kingdom · April 4, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/8828

Darren Walker | TED Speaker

Darren Walker is a leader in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.
President, Ford Foundation
https://www.ted.com/speakers/darren_walker

TEDTalks at 5: Speakers tell their stories

TED.com video exists to celebrate great speakers, thinkers, doers -- people with ideas that are passionately held and clearly put. For our speakers, putting their videos online has, in many cases, amplified their work beyond imagination, provoking new connections and directions to their careers and even their lives. As we approached the f...
Posted June 27, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/06/27/ted-at-5-speakers-tell-their-stories

Activities

Deepen your understanding of Visualizing Data with these carefully crafted educational exercises that let you get the most out of this TED Studies subject. Activity 1 Watch Nic Marks's TEDTalk "The Happy Planet Index". Marks argues that when we measure only economic indicators such as GDP, we are focusing on the wrong things. What does Marks thi...
https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/statistics/activities

Your holiday reading list: 58 books recommended by TED speakers

From tech to self-help via poetry, fiction and graphic novels, here are the books you need to read. What’s the one book you're always thrilled to discover that someone else has read? We posed that question to TED speakers -- and, well, they geeked out, offering us a list of hidden gems that wouldn’t typically crop up on a holiday shopping list....
Posted December 7, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/your-holiday-reading-list-58-books-recommended-by-ted-speakers

Are we irrationally pessimistic? A deep-dive Q&A with Steven Pinker

After his mainstage talk on the opening night of TED, psychologist Steven Pinker sat down with Chris Anderson to dive into his new book, Enlightenment Now. The two examined some criticisms of the book and the thesis behind it, dug into the data, and then threw the floor open for questions, in a session that offered the luxury of time to real...
Posted April 13, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/04/13/are-we-irrationally-pessimistic-a-deep-dive-qa-with-steven-pinker

Seyi Oyesola: A hospital tour in Nigeria

Dr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital -- all low-tech hacks and donated supplies -- drives home the challenge of doing basic health care there.
https://www.ted.com/talks/seyi_oyesola_a_hospital_tour_in_nigeria

TED staff: It's TED, the Musical

Do you have a TED Talk inside, just bursting to come out? Take this tongue-in-cheek musical journey to "Give Your Talk." A musical love letter to our speakers -- written, directed and performed by the TED staff.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ted_staff_it_s_ted_the_musical

Renny Gleeson: Our antisocial phone tricks

In this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world -- where the experience we're having right now is less interesting than what we'll tweet about it later.
https://www.ted.com/talks/renny_gleeson_our_antisocial_phone_tricks

Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex

Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems -- and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford_trial_error_and_the_god_complex

Yossi Vardi: We're worried about local warming ... in your lap

Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a ballsy lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men.
https://www.ted.com/talks/yossi_vardi_we_re_worried_about_local_warming_in_your_lap

Sebastian Wernicke: 1,000 TED Talks in six words

Sebastian Wernicke thinks every TED Talk can be summarized in six words. In this talk, he shows how to do just that -- and less.
https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_wernicke_1_000_ted_talks_in_six_words

Lauren Zalaznick: The conscience of television

TV executive Lauren Zalaznick thinks deeply about pop television. Sharing results of a bold study that tracks attitudes against TV ratings over five decades, she makes a case that television reflects who we truly are -- in ways we might not have expected.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lauren_zalaznick_the_conscience_of_television

Alan Kay: A powerful idea about ideas

With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can.
https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_a_powerful_idea_about_ideas

Louise Fresco: We need to feed the whole world

Louise Fresco shows us why we should celebrate mass-produced, supermarket-style white bread. She says environmentally sound mass production will feed the world, yet leave a role for small bakeries and traditional methods.
https://www.ted.com/talks/louise_fresco_we_need_to_feed_the_whole_world

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization
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