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Raghava KK: My 5 lives as an artist

With endearing honesty and vulnerability, Raghava KK tells the colorful tale of how art has taken his life to new places, and how life experiences in turn have driven his multiple reincarnations as an artist -- from cartoonist to painter, media darling to social outcast, and son to father.
https://www.ted.com/talks/raghava_kk_my_5_lives_as_an_artist

8 talks with big ideas for our roadways

It’s an experience that can inspire road rage in even the calmest person: an urban traffic jam where cars crawl along at a pace of inches per hour.  As Jonas Eliasson, a professor of transportation at Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), explains in today’s talk, traffic congestion occurs in almost every major city across the globe, d...
Posted November 27, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/11/27/8-talks-with-big-ideas-for-our-roadways

Susan Cain on why it's OK to eat alone

In her blockbuster TED Talk, Susan Cain has a call to action: Take introverts seriously, and understand what they can do in the right environment. Ben Lillie called her up for an extended conversation about the terrors of public speaking, how her issue is one of civil rights, and the neuroscience behind personalities. What was it like giving a ...
Posted August 11, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/susan-cain-on-why-its-ok-to-eat-alone

How to build the future: Talks from TED#Brightline

Let’s face it: it's hard to get stuff done. How can we, together, realize our most ambitious dreams? To celebrate the efforts of smart people who are changing the world while doing business as usual, TED has partnered with the Brightline Initiative, a non-commercial coalition of leading organizations dedicated to helping leaders turn idea...
Posted October 18, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/10/18/how-to-build-the-future-talks-from-tedbrightline

Endgame: A recap of the emotional final session of TED2015

It is hard to believe that this is final session of TED2015. Luckily Session 12, "Endgame," is our longest ever — with two full hours of talks that took us on a journey through the human experience, from anger to laughter and back again. Read a recap of these inspiring talks. An ode to anger. Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace ...
Posted March 20, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/03/20/endgame-a-recap-of-the-emotional-final-session-of-ted2015

A keeper of seeds hopes to save the world from starvation

If you ever find yourself in the northernmost town in the world, look carefully. Built into the side of a sandstone mountain is a glowing blue façade on top of a concrete tunnel; it might be the door to the secret headquarters of a Bond villain. And like Bond’s greatest villains, its purpose is at once deeply pessimistic and oddly hopeful. ...
Posted May 2, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/a-keeper-of-seeds-hopes-to-save-the-world-from-starvation

The innovations that could improve our world, assorted thoughts for rethinking terror and a pair of year-end accolades

TEDsters have been busy, as always, during the last two weeks. Below, just a few of the members of our global community with news to share. Innovations poised to make a difference. Our friends over at Mashable created an excellent roundup of “14 innovations that improved the world in 2014.” It includes several innovations shared in TED Talk...
Posted December 15, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/12/15/ted-community-news-12-15-14

A word from our curators: the thinking behind TEDCity2.0

By Courtney E. Martin and John Cary Curating the program for TEDCity2.0 -- a one-day conference about the future of cities that takes place, gulp, today -- was a true honor for us. The two of us come at cities from very different angles. John is trained as an architect, but has spent his career building the public interest design moveme...
Posted September 20, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/09/20/a-word-from-our-curators-the-thinking-behind-tedcity2-0

9 creative New Year's resolutions

Feel like you start the new year ready to reinvent your life, only to find that, a month later, you’ve given up on everything and are living a life that’s totally indistinguishable from last year? Cue the guilt spiral, and February already looks bleak. But maybe the problem isn’t you. Maybe you're just bored of making and breaking the same r...
Posted December 22, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/9-creative-new-years-resolutions

Humanizing our future: A night of talks from TED and Verizon

There are moments when the world begins to shift beneath our feet. Sometimes slowly, sometimes dramatically. Now more than ever we are living and working in an era of exponential technological advancement. How we address rapid change, what collaborative relationships we create, how we find our humanity -- all this will determine the future w...
Posted September 25, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/09/25/humanizing-our-future-a-night-of-talks-from-ted-and-verizon

An accidental TEDx organizer in Bangalore kickstarts a community at her college and beyond

TEDx organizer Seema Raman has held three events in the past year, and traveled from her home in Bangalore to the snowy mountains of British Columbia to learn more about putting on great events. But the funny thing is: Raman never intended to organize anything at all. Raman, a 20-year-old engineering student at PES Institute of Technology...
Posted July 2, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/07/02/seema-raman-of-tedxpesitbsc-kickstarts-community-at-her-college-and-beyond

Does the best music education happen in school? What is culinary justice? 11 more talks from fresh thinkers at TED2016

TED Fellows are scientists, artists and activists and musicians. But they are also biodiversity mathematicians, culinary historians and any other combination of disciplines you can imagine. Below, read short recaps of the talks in the second session of TED Fellows talks at TED2016, each a big idea that will make you think again. Honor ...
Posted February 15, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/02/15/does-the-best-music-education-happen-in-school-what-is-culinary-justice-11-more-talks-from-fresh-thinkers-at-ted2016

Gallery: The beauty of a thin film of oil

Artist Fabian Oefner works with everyday materials to create astonishing, unrecognizable images. Here's a look at how he does it. Where most people would likely see an unassuming puddle on the side of the road, Fabian Oefner (TED Talk: Psychedelic science) sees an artistic opportunity. In his new photographic series, Oil Spill, he focuses on th...
Posted October 13, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-the-beauty-of-a-thin-film-of-oil

Curing cancer one nanoparticle at a time, and more news from TED speakers

[embed]http://www.ted.com/talks/paula_hammond_a_new_superweapon_in_the_fight_against_cancer[/embed] As usual, the TED community is hard at work -- here are some highlights: A new drug-delivering nanoparticle. Paula Hammond, the head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, is part of a research team that has developed a new nanopartic...
Posted June 29, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/06/29/curing-cancer-one-nanoparticle-at-a-time-and-more-news-from-ted-speakers

How to be more hopeful

8 TED speakers show you how to nudge your mind toward the sunny side We all go through times when we see the world through cloudy-colored glasses. Times when it’s tempting to just climb into bed -- or bathtub -- and hide out, maybe for up to a month. Fortunately for your loved ones, your livelihood and your life, we’ve gathered together eight t...
Posted April 3, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/how-to-be-more-hopeful

Disasters and crises bring out the best in us

Disasters and crises bring out the best in us. This simple fact is confirmed by more solid evidence than almost any other scientific insight, but we often forget. Now more than ever, in the middle of a pandemic, it’s crucial to remember this. Sure, our news feeds are flooded with cynical stories and comments. A report on armed men stealing ro...
Posted March 20, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/disasters-and-crises-bring-out-the-best-in-us

Photo gallery: Poignant images of a late-in-life love triangle

In the stark sunlight and shadows of palm-lined, chain link-fenced Los Angeles, one man and two women -- all elderly -- walk hand-in-hand, embrace in parking lots, eat in diners, and lie down together at home. Meet Will, Jeanie and Adina, three people whose lives intertwined at the ages of 84, 81 and 90, respectively. Isadora Kosofsky, th...
Posted August 20, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/photo-gallery-poignant-images-of-a-late-in-life-love-triangle

Inside the debate about power posing: a Q & A with Amy Cuddy

Four and a half years after her popular TED Talk, the social psychologist updates the research on posture and hormones, responds to critics and discusses her current work. At the TEDGlobal 2012 conference, social psychologist Amy Cuddy gave the talk "Your body language shapes who you are," in which she detailed the effects of “power posing,” ba...
Posted February 22, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/inside-the-debate-about-power-posing-a-q-a-with-amy-cuddy

How to Change Your Workplace (Transcript)

How to Change Your Workplace Tuesday, June 27, 2022 Adam Grant: One day I got a call from a hospital that was working on a major change initiative. A committee of surgeons had identified a customer service problem. Basically, patients weren’t happy. And after 8 months of work, they were getting ready to roll out a big fix. They were going to tra...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/worklife/how-to-change-your-workplace-transcript

Opening day for Venice Biennale, an invisible landmark, and an economist’s look at Uber’s surge pricing

The TED community has been very busy over the past few weeks. Below, some newsy highlights. 121 years of celebrating art. Originally an art exhibition, the Venice Biennale is a tradition stretching back to 1895 and has expanded over the years to include events for music, theater, film, dance and architecture. Opening on May 28, the 15th I...
Posted May 26, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/05/26/opening-day-for-venice-biennale-an-invisible-landmark-and-an-economists-look-at-ubers-surge-pricing

8 talks about China

“When I was growing up, I was told a story that explained all I ever needed to know about humanity. It went like this,” says Eric X. Li in today’s provocative talk, given at TEDGlobal 2013. “All human societies develop in a linear progression, beginning with primitive society, than slave society, than feudalism, capitalism, socialism and fin...
Posted July 1, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/07/01/8-talks-about-china

Paul Nicklen's new images carry a dire warning about climate change

This post first appeared at BillMoyers.com. In the summer of 2014, one of the world’s top nature photographers was on an expedition in the far north to document the changing Arctic. Paul Nicklen was sailing around Svalbard, an archipelago halfway between Scandinavia and the North Pole. The largely uninhabited land sees 24 hours of sunlight ...
Posted April 22, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/04/22/paul-nickens-new-images-carry-a-dire-warning-about-climate-change

Peter Hirshberg: The web is more than "better TV"

In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."
https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_hirshberg_the_web_is_more_than_better_tv

What I'd tell my teenage self: Life and career advice from the TED staff

Four hundred middle and high school students will fill the TEDYouth auditorium this Saturday -- and many of them will be put straight to work. Students who’ve expressed interest in cinematography will shadow our video production team, students who want to be event planners will hang out with our producers, and those interested in journalism ...
Posted November 13, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/11/13/what-id-tell-my-teenage-self-life-and-career-advice-from-the-ted-staff

10 years of changing views on climate change, in TED Talks

On July 27, 2006, the first six TED Talks were posted online. Among them was Al Gore’s talk at TED2006, “Averting the climate crisis,” given a few months before the release of his groundbreaking documentary An Inconvenient Truth. With the release of the film, climate change stormed into public awareness. Fast-forward to 2016 and things have ...
Posted June 24, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/06/24/10-years-of-changing-views-on-climate-change

Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future

MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today. And he leaves you with one last (absurd? brilliant?) prediction for the coming 30 years.
https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_a_30_year_history_of_the_future

11 fascinating “peers incorporated” businesses

Robin Chase, the founder of Zipcar, is proud of her company’s emphasis on sharing. But now, a decade later, “it’s really time to push the envelope,” she says in today’s talk filmed at TEDGlobal 2012. Chase’s latest venture, Buzzcar, provides an online platform for people in France to rent cars from their friends and neighbors. “Instead of inve...
Posted December 17, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/12/17/11-fascinating-peer-incorporated-businesses

How to talk to someone who doesn’t believe in climate change

Not every conversation with a climate denier has to lead to raised voices and hurt feelings. Here’s how to do it constructively. “Climate change has become one of the taboo topics -- like sex, politics and religion -- that doesn’t get talked about at the Thanksgiving table,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Chan...
Posted November 15, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/how-to-talk-to-someone-who-doesnt-believe-in-climate-change

The skill you need now: presentation literacy

TED curator Chris Anderson discusses the transformative power of speaking to an audience from the heart. You’re nervous, right? Stepping out onto a public stage and having hundreds of pairs of eyes turned your way is terrifying. You dread having to stand up in a company meeting and present your project. What if you get nervous and stumble ov...
Posted January 5, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/the-skill-you-need-now-presentation-literacy

Dear Guy: "Help! I don't know what I want to do with my life!?!"

Welcome to "Dear Guy," TED's advice column from psychologist Guy Winch. Twice a month, he'll answer reader questions about life, love and what matters most. Please send them to dearguy@ted.com; to read his previous columns, go here. Dear Guy, When I was a kid and people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I never knew what to say. My p...
Posted May 27, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/dear-guy-help-i-dont-know-what-i-want-to-do-with-my-life
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