They might not be old enough to rent a car solo or to order a glass of wine, but they certainly have what it takes to deliver a fascinating talk on a bold idea. In this playlist, we highlight incredible TED speakers under the age of 20.From Taylor Wilson, 17, and his nuclear fusion reactor to Richard Turere, 13, and his invention to ward off lio...

Created by the team behind An Inconvenient Truth and starring TED2010 speaker (and former CIA covert operative) Valerie Plame Wilson, Countdown to Zero began playing theaters of select cities this week. At TED, Plame spoke about the compelling need to bring the number of nuclear weapons in the world to zero and the film delves further into her a...

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...

At the UN General Assembly last week, Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned the U.S. that they were being fooled by Iranian promises of nuclear concessions in peace talks, calling Iranian president Hasan Rouhani a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.” But the real threat, suggests Trita Parsi, isn’t between Iran and the rest of the world...

About this event: Is an explosion a destructive phenomenon, or does it actually leave behind what fuels new beginnings? At the last stages of it's life, a star runs out of nuclear fuel and some of its mass flows into its core. Eventually, the core is so heavy that it cannot withstand its own gravitational force. The core collapses, which results in the giant exp...

About this event: Education is the basis of full value and progressive human being. High-quality changes are possible only in literate society. We as the students of Pedagogical University believe in that as anybody else. So our theme "Changes will happen when you fulfil yourself" is directly connected with self-development, self-education, lifelong education an...

Catering a TEDx event can be -- how do you say it? – costly. So we think it’s so cool that the organizers of TEDxSydney decided to crowdsource the food for the 2,200 people attending the event in May. All the food in the amazing spread above comes from community gardens and from plants grown in the backyards, windowsills and balconies of bot...

During the past few years, I’ve been referred to in the media as “The World’s Youngest Hyperpolyglot” -- a word that sounds like a rare illness. In a way it is: it describes someone who speaks a particularly large number of foreign languages, someone whose all-consuming passion for words and systems can lead them to spend many long hours alone w...

About this event: This year our theme is Bits, Atoms, Neurons, Genes (or BANG BANG as we're calling it). The digital world and the real world are interconnected like never before. You can send off online for a personal genome readout and control physical objects with your mind. Computer thinking is driving medicine, music and play. With brain-computer interfa...

For the past 59 years, the European Organization for Nuclear Research -- better known as CERN -- has been a nucleus of innovation, bringing us both the World Wide Web in 1983 and last year's discovery of what appears to be the Higgs boson. Today, CERN will host its first TEDx event, with speakers ranging from Nobel Prize laureate astrophysicist ...

Is there someone in your life with whom you disagree? Has something gone unspoken for a long time that you would like to address? Or maybe you want to have a conversation about the future of our country or something close to home. This holiday season, have that conversation. Before you stay home to avoid your family because you're afraid of a...

Session 5, hosted by TED Curator Chris Anderson and astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jedidah Isler, is called “space to dream.” As Isler points out, we’re not just talking about outer space -- it’s also about "the right to take up space, to dream, to do.” Seven dreamers, doers and designers offer a variety of ways to look at this theme. Lear...

Behold, your recap of TED-related news: Remembering Billy Graham. For more than 60 years, pastor Billy Graham inspired countless people around the world with his sermons. On Wednesday, February 21, he passed away at his home in North Carolina after struggling with numerous illnesses over the past few years. He was 99 years old. Raised on ...

Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: In case you haven't seen it yet, To This Day is a beautiful collaborative project that combines spoken word poetry and a flurry of eclectic animations to raise awareness about bullying. Watch seven TED Talks on the wonder of 3D printing. The f...

Via the TEDx Blog: Patrick Newell, organizer of TEDxTokyo, has been collecting and sharing news from TEDx communities affected by the recent tragic events in Japan. He sends this report: The effects of the earthquake that struck the Tohoko region of Japan on Friday, March 11, has had an impact all around the world. Here in Tokyo, thousa...

If your home had been devastated by a disaster, would you stay? Why do people choose to remain in potentially life-threatening places? These are just a few of the complex questions that photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart and filmmaker Holly Morris explore in their respective work, documenting the lives of people living in Chernobyl and Fuk...

Yes, it takes enough time and energy to be a good person in the here and now, but we also need to start considering future generations, too. Writer Bina Venkataraman tells us how we can start acting in ways that benefit those to come. We live in a culture that encourages instant gratification, amid markets that turn on quarterly profits. Yet ma...

Andrew Bastawrous dreams of a bakery in Nakuru, Kenya, that will not only make delicious treats but raise money for subsidized vision care. Robert Simpson envisions First Responders, a program to make satellite data available to citizen scientists in crisis situations, to guide aid efforts from afar. Cesar Harada wants to create larger prototype...

About this event: TEDxGöteborgLive will return this month with a live-streaming of the first TED conferences of the third day of TED 2013, straight from Long Beach Performing Arts Center in California. In 2013, the TED line-up will have the largest number of speakers in the conference series' history, as a result of TED's first-ever global talent search. Thr...

Award-winning Canadian photographer Ed Ou fell into photojournalism as a teenager, while studying political science in Jerusalem. Since then, he has blazed a trail of cinematic images covering the Egyptian revolution, the Somali Civil War, victims of radiation poisoning in the Soviet Union, and beyond, capturing moments of beauty and humanit...

Great science fiction writers don’t just imagine the future, they shape it. The idea that omnipresent social data networks would one day seem as normal as toothbrushes was a borderline-preposterous theory back in the early 1980s. Then a rookie science-fiction writer named William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace” in a short story, sparking th...

About this event: LIVE SIMULCAST (LIVE WEBCASTING) OF THE TED 2013 CONFERENCE (from Los Angeles, California) ‘The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered’. We will ONLY screen (LIVE, with Exclusive License and in English only), the Fourth and Fifth Session of the 27th line-up (the entire conference actually lasts 4 days but it is allowed to screen only the 27th): ‘DIS...

TED2014 will bring together more than 70 speakers with fresh thinking on topics as diverse as leadership, genetics and the magic of fireflies. But this is our 30th anniversary conference, and it’s also time to look back at some of the incredible ideas surfaced in the past. At TED2014, we will hold five All-Stars sessions that bring 50+ favorite ...

About this event: Join us on Wednesday 27th February for our second "TEDxLive" event showing an exclusive live webcast of the TED 2013 conference in Longon Beach, California. You're welcome to bring your laptops and iPads along to work on throughout the evening while we watch the live show. VENUE: Project Space (1st floor), Loughborough University School Of...

About this event: TEDxEonjuro's first event was held under the slogan "We All Together: MED and You". The event was based on a single keyword, 'companion,' showing how the medical field and the non-medical field amalgamating these days. TEDxEonjuro explored diverse applications of medical sciences in this monumental first event. Moreover, people engaged in di...

Last time we saw Stewart Brand on the TED stage was in 2010, in his debate with Mark Z. Jacobson over whether the world needs nuclear energy. Brand, perhaps surprisingly, gave a passionate pro argument. But today he's here for a very different -- and potentially very controversial -- purpose. Extinction is not just death, but death for ev...

From machine intelligence to post-subsistence economies, Google's Blaise Agüera y Arcas lays out 6 (okay, 7) ways everything is set to change. How will our minds be blown in the next 30 years? Well, that's quite a long time, given the acceleration in history. Still, I'll be brave and make six hypotheses. 1. Machine Intelligence I think that...

About this event: Speakers will deliver inspiring talks on subjects close to their hearts: 1) Exploring new technologies, such as AI and Nuclear energy. Can technology solve all of the world’s problems? Can the use of humour and lateral thinking debunk well-established scientific assumptions? Why: Our school has a strong focus on the sciences and our students...

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