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You Tell Us: What would you do for the world with $1 million?

Did you know that you -- as in, anyone -- can nominate a visionary leader for this year’s TED Prize? Do you have a mentor with an incredible track record? A former teacher with a big idea for change? A colleague doing incredible work that could reach new heights if given more resources? A friend with the ability to inspire collaborative acti...
Posted August 8, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/08/08/you-tell-us-what-would-you-do-for-the-world-with-1-million

'What's Killing Us' - TED ebook examines our toughest global health problems

In the past decade, we’ve changed the way we collectively view the health of the 7 billion people who occupy this planet. Health issues were once seen as an isolated national or regional problem; now they are a global concern. In What's Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems, 2011 TED Senior Fellow ...
Posted March 21, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/03/21/whats-killing-us-ted-ebook-examines-our-toughest-global-health-problems

Bill Gates, designer? Yes. Public Interest Design honors 100 global thinkers who are designing social good

Good design has the power to improve lives. Yesterday, Public Interest Design -- a group dedicated to design for social good -- released the Global Public Interest Design 100, a list of 100 "designers" (including some people you really might not expect) who are designing for the good of all. We love this sweeping list of 100 architects, designer...
Posted May 15, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/05/15/bill-gates-designer-yes-public-interest-design-honors-100-global-thinkers-who-are-designing-social-good

CNN names its top 10 thinkers of 2013, and 7 of them have given TED Talks

How do you pick the 10 thinkers in the world whose ideas are making the biggest ripples? It's a task sort of akin to asking: which are the 10 most beautiful flowers in a meadow? Luckily, we don't have to answer this intimidating question. Because CNN is all over it. Today, CNN Tech published "The CNN 10: Thinkers," a look at the 10 science an...
Posted October 23, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/10/23/cnn-top-10-thinkers-of-2013-ted-talks

Effective altruism: Peter Singer at TED2013

Moral philosopher Peter Singer starts the last session of TED2013, "A Ripple Effect?" with a shocking video of a 2-year-old girl in China who was hit by a van -- and then a second van -- and ignored by passers-by as she lay dying in an alley. He asks of the audience: Would you have stopped and helped this girl? Not surprisingly, the unanimou...
Posted March 1, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/03/01/effective-altruism-peter-singer-at-ted2013

This week’s best questions, ideas and debates from TED Conversations

TED Conversations is a unique space where any member of this community can get feedback on an idea, ask a question that they just can’t get out of their mind, or start a respectful debate on an issue they hold near and dear to their heart. This week on TED Conversations:  a debate on innovation, questioning the line between Science and State, an...
Posted February 14, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/14/this-weeks-best-questions-ideas-and-debates-from-ted-conversations-4

All 50 TED Talks shown for a split-second on 60 Minutes

In 2015, 60 Minutes aired a story called "When TED talks, people listen," to show what happens when TED Talks are shared across the world. The segment focuses on a few key speakers, including Bryan Stevenson, Maysoon Zayid, Amy Cuddy and Monica Lewinsky, and you can watch a playlist of highlighted TED Talks here. But many of you said: You wa...
Posted April 20, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/04/20/all-50-ted-talks-shown-for-a-split-second-on-60-minutes

Gallery: Behind-the-scenes at Tuesday and Wednesday of TEDGlobal

TEDGlobal 2013 is steaming along, and our brains are bursting with new ideas as well as rebooted approaches to old ones. Here, some incredible images taken on site during days 2 and 3 of the conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Enjoy.
Posted June 13, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/13/gallery-behind-the-scenes-at-tuesday-and-wednesday-of-tedglobal

What does extreme poverty look like today? Some nuanced and insightful readings

In today’s talk, Bono -- U2 frontman, founder of the anti-poverty organization ONE, and 2005 TED Prize winner -- reflects on the past decade’s dramatic reduction in extreme poverty worldwide. “Exit the rockstar, enter the evidence-based activist, the factivist,” he says. Since 2000, according to Bono’s data, eight million more AIDS patients a...
Posted March 14, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/what-does-extreme-poverty-look-like-today-some-nuanced-and-insightful-readings

TEDxMalibuChange: A Complimentary TEDxMalibu Community Event... - an independently organized event

About this event: 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 TEDxChange team works with TEDx organizers around the world to help facilitate meaningful discussions on topics including...
Event details: Malibu, California, United States · April 21, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/8786

In Case You Missed It: Exploring the amazing (in every sense of the word) at day 1 of TED2018

TED2018, themed "The Age of Amazement," kicked off Tuesday with two eye-opening sessions of talks from this year's TED Fellows -- with tech and science demos, music, dance and comedy -- as well as the opening of exhibits and, of course, a memorable Session 1 full of bold ideas, tough truths and jaw-dropping creative visions. Here are some of ...
Posted April 11, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/04/11/in-case-you-missed-it-exploring-the-amazing-in-every-sense-of-the-word-at-day-1-of-ted2018

Announcing our 2017 TED Prize winner: Health-care warrior Raj Panjabi

It sounds simple enough: If you’re sick, you make an appointment with a doctor, and if it's an emergency, you head to the nearest hospital. But for more than a billion people around the world, it's a real challenge -- because they live too far from a medical facility. Where Raj Panjabi’s nonprofit, Last Mile Health, operates in Liberia, p...
Posted December 1, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/12/01/announcing-2017-ted-prize-winner-raj-panjabi

The other butterfly effect: A youth reporter finds out how monarchs fight their own parasites

Jaap de Roode is a biologist who studies parasites and their hosts — particularly Monarch butterflies. At TEDYouth 2014, he spoke about Monarch butterflies, their self-medicating ingenuity -- and what that ingenuity can help humans discover. Lubna Batool, an 11th-grade New Yorker, was fascinated. On site at TEDYouth, with a dozen monarch ...
Posted November 25, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/11/25/a-youth-reporter-finds-out-how-monarchs-fight-their-own-parasites

Crowdsourcing the New Millennium Development Goals: Jamie Drummond at TEDGlobal2012

Photo: Ryan Lash Remember Y2K? Jamie Drummond starts by taking us back to the most anticipated year in human history: 2000. "Remember that? Y2k, the dotcom bubble... the deep-down inchoate yearning that our millennium moment should mean more than a two and some zeros." Incredibly, he says, our leaders agreed, and as a result produce...
Posted June 26, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/06/26/crowdsourcing-the-new-millennium-development-goals-jamie-drummond-at-tedglobal2012

Meet the 2018 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows

The TED Fellows program is excited to announce the new group of TED2018 Fellows and Senior Fellows. Representing a wide range of disciplines and countries -- including, for the first time in the program, Syria, Thailand and Ukraine -- this year's TED Fellows are rising stars in their fields, each with a bold, original approach to address...
Posted January 9, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/01/09/meet-the-2018-class-of-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows

TEDxTJHSST: Prevail - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxTJHSST 2015 will be held on May 15th during 6th, 7th, and 8A & 8B (10AM – 4PM). TEDxTJHSST is an officially licensed TED.com event. This conference serves as a platform for the TJ community – students, parents, alumni, and faculty alike – to share individual insights and experiences related to this year’s theme: “Prevail: How can we d...
Event details: Alexandria, Virginia, United States · May 15, 2015
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/15448

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https://www.ted.com/profiles/140411/about

TED News in Brief: The (real) secret to a great infographic, Ai Weiwei at Alcatraz, and more

Here, your weekly recap of TED-related news: You see their work every time you start a TED Talk: the video firm Psyop created our water-drop titles (among lots of other work you’ll recognize). Now they’ve released their very first iOS and Android game -- a game for social good called “Nightmare: Malaria.” It comes from their nonprofit wing, E...
Posted December 3, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/12/03/ted-news-in-brief-the-real-secret-to-a-great-infographic-ai-weiwei-at-alcatraz-and-more-news-on-ted-topics

In Case You Missed It: The big ideas from day 1 of TED2017

The first day of TED2017 brought two sessions of talks from TED Fellows and an opening session broadcast live in movie theaters. Below, some of the themes heard today that we just can’t get out of our minds. A closer look at our relationship to technology. Huang Yi danced with a robot. Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov once battled a super...
Posted April 25, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/04/25/in-case-you-missed-it-the-big-ideas-from-day-1-of-ted2017

One year in, The Audacious Project ideas make ever-bigger waves

One year ago, TED launched The Audacious Project — an initiative to help change-makers with big, bold ideas for tackling global challenges find the support to make their visions a reality. What's happened since has been amazing. Thousands of people in the US are awaiting trials at home rather than in jail cells now because of the work of The...
Posted April 5, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/04/05/the-audacious-project-one-year-in

Reflections on TEDGlobal 2013: If you thought it lasted for a week, then “Think Again”

The weeks after TEDGlobal require serious debriefing. Throughout the course of the conference -- which took place June 10 to 14 in Edinburgh, Scotland -- the mind is crammed full of so many fascinating ideas that it takes some time to process them. As we look back on the conference, and continue to post talks from it, the TED Blog wanted to ...
Posted July 2, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/07/02/reflections-on-tedglobal-2013-if-you-thought-it-lasted-for-a-week-then-think-again

How technology can empower patients, including 4 diagnostic tools for your iPhone

Eric Dishman is used to thinking about how technology can transform the world of health care. As an Intel Fellow and general manager of the company’s Health Strategy & Solutions Group, his job is all about finding innovative new approaches to healthcare. And he’s no stranger to talking about them. At TEDMED 2009, in the talk featured to...
Posted April 11, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/04/11/how-technology-can-empower-patients-including-4-diagnostic-tools-for-your-iphone

Recommended reading to get you ready for TEDGlobal 2013

TEDGlobal 2013: Think Again is right around the corner -- and the program is packed with illustrious speakers addressing some of the most challenging and fascinating questions we face today. So how should you prepare for this influx of ideas from politics, science, the arts and beyond? To familiarize you with our speakers’ past work and poin...
Posted June 6, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/06/recommended-reading-to-get-you-ready-for-tedglobal-2013

The TED Gift Guide

Buying gifts? It is HARD. Especially when so many gift guides offer up ideas for what to get your dad, co-worker or sister without taking into account what actually interests those specific people in your life. A better way to locate the perfect gift? Think about what captures a person’s curiosity, and then seek ideas from people in that field. ...
Posted December 9, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/12/09/the-ted-gift-guide

Eradicating extreme poverty doesn't have to be a dream: Bono at TED2013

In 2005, the TED Prize was given to Bono. Eight years later, Chris Anderson asks, has there been any progress? The U2 frontman is here to tell us. But first, some good-natured Anglo-Irish joshing. "Chris Anderson asked me if I could put the last 25 years of of anti-poverty campaigning into 10 minutes. That's an Englishman asking an Irishman ...
Posted February 26, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/eradicating-extreme-poverty-doesnt-have-to-be-a-dream-bono-at-ted2013

Could hunters help bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction?

TED science curator David Biello exposes the odd couple behind the de-extinction movement: scientists and hunters. What does this say about our ambivalent attitude toward animals? Our world is the setting of a great murder mystery: Where did all the big animals go? Although Earth is the scene of the crime for many deaths -- it is estimated that...
Posted November 17, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/could-hunters-help-bring-back-the-woolly-mammoth-from-extinction

How we’ll get health care to the billion people who lack it: Raj Panjabi reveals his TED Prize wish

Raj Panjabi was your typical science- and soccer-loving 4th grader in Monrovia, Liberia. But when a brutal civil war erupted in the country, normal life was upended. On the TED2017 stage, Panjabi recalls his mother knocking on his door, telling him to pack his things. They had to flee. One image from that day has stayed etched in his memo...
Posted April 25, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/04/25/raj-panjabi-reveals-his-2017-ted-prize-wish

Storytellers and scientists: Notes from TED Fellows Session 2 at TED2017

On the morning of TED2017's first day, our TED Fellows continue to blow minds in session 2 of the TED Fellows Talks -- including a science demo featuring carnivorous plants, some gorgeous cultural mashups, and an introduction to the fish who won evolution. Do plants have brains? Well, no, but they’re certainly not dumb. And, in the case o...
Posted April 24, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/04/24/who-wins-evolution-ted-fellows-speak-at-ted2017

TED reaches its billionth video view!

According to our best estimates, TED has surpassed a billion video views! Our most recent metrics show that TED Talks are being viewed at a rate of 1.5 million times a day -- which means that a new viewing commences 17 times a second. We in the TED office cannot thank you enough for helping us reach this milestone of 1,000,000,000 views -- n...
Posted November 13, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/11/13/ted-reaches-its-billionth-video-view

The 10 weirdest things that have happened in TED Talks

Many unusual things have happened on the TED stage over the years. Our incredible speakers have done everything from perform magic tricks to attempt to set themselves on fire, all in the name of spreading their ideas. Although far from a complete list, here are some of the weirdest TED moments that we still haven’t stopped puzzling over. To many...
Posted December 15, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/12/15/the-10-weirdest-things-that-have-happened-in-ted-talks
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