Often, discussions about equality center around leaning in, or whether or not the glass ceiling has got cracks in it. But for many women, the focus is on surviving everyday violence, assault and rape -- a daily struggle that plays a part in keeping a billion people locked into poverty. Gary Haugen (TED Talk: The hidden reason for poverty the wor...
Life is long, and so is this list. A treasure trove of how-tos (from tying your shoes to finding work you love) to bookmark, download and return to again and again.
Congratulations to the winners of the 72nd annual Peabody Awards! All of you have created incredible work that adds so much to the landscape of radio, television and electronic media. But TED would like to raise our glasses to toast two winners in particular.
At TED2013, multimedia producer Jacky Myint shared the storytelling process that w...
For four years, artist Naomi Natale’s social art practice, the One Million Bones project, has used education, hands-on artmaking and public art installation to raise awareness of ongoing genocide and mass atrocities. On June 8, Naomi and the One Million Bones team will be joined by thousands of volunteers to lay down the one million human “b...
In the image above, one million handmade bones -- made by schoolchildren and artists around the world -- have been methodically laid across the National Mall in Washington, DC, from the US Capitol building all the way to the Washington Monument. The culmination of a five-year project from TED Fellow Naomi Natale (read our interview with her abou...
These brilliant people have shaped their fields -- from inventing the World Wide Web to changing the world of dance. They share their work in their own words.
About this event: The theme of the event is [Re]Framing because we're hoping for our ideas to shift, build, and/or change our audience's perspectives on the various issues discussed. Breaks during the event will consist of an international cuisine and an entertainment act.
Event details: Kinshasa, Kinshasa, DR Congo · May 13, 2017
About this event: Dans l'esprit des idées qui valent la peine d'être diffusées, TED a créé un programme appelé TEDx. TEDx est un programme d'événements locaux auto-organisés qui rassemblent les gens pour partager une expérience de type TED.
TEDxBoulevardMsiri est un événement destiné à développer la communauté TED et TEDx en RDC avec une vision pour présenter de...
Event details: LUBUMBASHI, Katanga, DR Congo · January 31, 2020
The watch looks both futuristic and retro at the same time. A swirl of visible gears and carefully calibrated dials, it charts time in an unusual way — the hour jumps into place at the top, the minute is marked in a semicircle along the bottom, and the seconds swoop above. It’s a statement watch, the kind of piece that people inevitably ask ...
Want to know what's going to happen next in the worlds of science, art, tech and more? Get to know the 2012 class of TEDGlobal Fellows and Senior Fellows in our downloadable guide (PDF).
Some 55 TEDGlobal Fellows and Senior Fellows will attend TEDGlobal next week. As director Tom Rielly writes:
Our Fellows truly embody this conference’...
“Imagine yourself standing on a beach, looking out at the ocean -- waves crashing against the shore, blue as far as your eyes can see." This is the opening line of Scott Gass’ TED-Ed lesson, “How big is the ocean?” But the animated video gives you much more to think about than sand between your toes and waves tickling a white sandy paradise.
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About this event: Le changement peut paraître douloureux, mais rien n'est plus pénible que de rester coincé quelque part où tu ne veux plus être. » « On ne change pas les choses en combattant la réalité existante. Pour changer quelque chose, construis un nouveau modèle qui rendra l'ancien obsolète. bienvenue au rendez-vous du savoir
Event details: LUBUMBASHI, Katanga, DR Congo · June 23, 2022
This weekend, thousands gathered in Washington, DC, to help lay one million handmade representations of human bones -- 1,018,260 bones, to be exact -- on the National Mall. This breathtaking installation created a haunting river of bones leading to the US Capitol, and represents the culmination of a nearly five-year social activism project imagi...
The theme of Session 4 is Field Work -- and we're hearing from people who get outside, who work in the field and hear what's really going on.
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is a professor at the University of Mauritius, and she’s here this morning to show us five plants unique to where she works and lives: the Mascarene Islands. She introduces us to...