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“A world without love is a deadly place”: Celebrating Valentine’s Day with the launch of TED Quotes

Everyone loves a good quote. They challenge us. They change us. They make us think and make us laugh. They are — in their most compressed and contagious form — ideas. So today, we’r...

21 h ago

Have you visited Inside Out Project lately?

Since the Inside Out Project launched last year at TED, more than 70,000 individual photos have been shot and pasted in almost 9,000 locations around the world, sharing a vision of individual identit...

3 days ago

POW! Agent Hero: Fellows Friday with Suleiman Bakhit

Creating characters and stories richly inspired by Arabic tradition, Suleiman Bakhit is fighting to change how the West sees Arab youth — and how Arab youth see themselves — one superhero...

4 days ago

The difficulties in opening science: Q&A with Michael Nielsen

In a timely and incisive talk at TEDxWaterloo, Michael Nielsen made the case for open science — the idea that research data and results should be freely available to the public, and that scient...

5 days ago

Sign up to audition for TED2013 in Doha

From April to June 2012, TED will be holding 14 auditions, around the world, to search for unheard voices to put onstage at TED2013. Learn more about TED2013 Worldwide Auditions >> Just announc...

6 days ago

New TED Book envisions the ‘living’ cities of the future

What will the urban areas of tomorrow look like? More like an ever-changing and vibrant garden than a static set of buildings and blocks. In our new ebook Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology C...

6 days ago 1 person likes this

New: Find “courses” from TEDTalks on iTunes U

New on iTunes U: Find TEDTalks organized by subject area into courses, curated for students, educators and lifelong learners. In our initial course offering, explore such topics as “Creative Pr...

6 days ago 1 person likes this

Remembering Mike deGruy

We are saddened by the news that ocean photographer, filmmaker and storyteller Mike deGruy died yesterday in a helicopter crash in Australia. Mike was truly one of the great teachers and advocates fo...

04 feb 12

State of the X: Stats on TEDx and TEDxTalks in January

The new feature “State of the X,” on the TEDx Tumblr, runs the numbers on TEDx and the great video coming from these worldwide independently produced events. To start — how many TED...

04 feb 12

Robin Ince: “I’ve just realised what I should have done my TED talk on”

Late in January, Robin Ince tweeted: balls, 7 months too late I’ve just realised what i should have done my TED talk on So the TED Blog asked: What? And here is what he wrote: Every year I atte...

04 feb 12 1 person likes this

Breakthrough solutions: Fellows Friday with Juliette LaMontagne

Juliette LaMontagne’s Breaker offers millennials a unique, hands-on alternative learning opportunity — working on projects with serious social impact. Breaker teams take on such challenges as i...

03 feb 12

TED Conversations in the classroom

Can students learn better by sharing what they know? TED Fellow Nina Tandon believes in the power of sharing ideas and using TED Talks in her classroom. In addition to that, she is now using the TED ...

03 feb 12 2 people like this

Announcing a global talent search for TED2013 speakers

The best moments at TED have often come from unexpected places. But this year, we’re pushing that to an entirely new level. We’re staging a global talent search to bring together the most...

31 jan 12 1 person likes this

New TED Book asks: can changing how we teach make our kids smarter, more creative?

Ten years ago, educator Sugata Mitra and his colleagues cracked open a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed a networked PC, and left it there for the local children to freel...

24 jan 12 3 people like this

Extreme swimming with the world’s most dangerous jellyfish: Diana Nyad on TED.com

In the 1970s, Diana Nyad set long-distance swim records that are still unbroken. Thirty years later, at 60, she attempted her longest swim yet, from Cuba to Florida. In this funny, powerful talk at T...

24 jan 12

Event innovations from TEDx events: We pick 5

TEDx events — powered by passionate volunteer hosts and committed audience members — are hotbeds of innovation, and we’re constantly looking to them for what’s next in event p...

24 jan 12

A primer on 3D printing: Lisa Harouni on TED.com

2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making ...

23 jan 12 2 people like this

Is there a real you? Julian Baggini on TED.com

What makes you, you? Is it how you think of yourself, how others think of you, or something else entirely? At TEDxYouth@Manchester, Julian Baggini draws from philosophy and neuroscience to give a sur...

22 jan 12 2 people like this

Plant-based fuels that could power a jet: Bilal Bomani on TED.com

Algae plus salt water equals … fuel? At TEDxNASA@SiliconValley, Bilal Bomani reveals a self-sustaining ecosystem that produces biofuels — without wasting arable land or fresh water. (Recorded a...

21 jan 12

Harnessing the power of reading: Q&A with illustrator Elizabeth Zunon

Yesterday, TED Fellow William Kamkwamba debuted an illustrated children’s version of his memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, co-written with Bryan Mealer and illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon. Since ...

21 jan 12 1 person likes this

The beautiful math behind the ugliest music: Scott Rickard on TED.com

Scott Rickard set out to engineer the ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of any pattern, using a mathematical concept known as the Golomb ruler. At TEDxMIA, he shares the math behind musical bea...

20 jan 12 1 person likes this

Udder genius: Fellows Friday with Su Kahumbu

Agriculturalist and social entrepreneur Su Kahumbu created iCow, a mobile app that supports farmers caring for livestock. Soon it will become an information-delivery platform that could help generate...

20 jan 12

How to make choosing easier: Sheena Iyengar on TED.com

We all want customized experiences and products — but when faced with 700 options, consumers freeze up. With fascinating new research, Sheena Iyengar demonstrates how businesses (and others) ca...

19 jan 12

Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea): Clay Shirky on TED.com

What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rathe...

18 jan 12

Three types of online attack: Mikko Hypponen on TED.com

Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data — and only two are considered crimes. (Recorded at TEDxBrussels 2011, November 2011, in Br...

18 jan 12

What we’re doing about PIPA/SOPA: Talking about it

Today, several of our favorite websites are going dark or blacking out their homepages to raise awareness of two bills, in the US House and Senate, that threaten people’s ability to share on th...

18 jan 12 1 person likes this

FAQ with Alain de Botton on ‘religion for atheists’

As a companion to today’s TEDTalk from Alain de Botton, he sent us this FAQ, a brief introduction to the thinking behind Atheism 2.0: What do you think of the aggressive atheism we have seen in...

18 jan 12 1 person likes this

Announcing: TEDTalks DVD on Demand!

Spreading ideas just got easier. Today TED announces DVD On Demand, which allows users to create custom TEDTalk DVDs from a library of over 700 available talks. Each disc holds up to six talks, each ...

17 jan 12

Atheism 2.0: Alain de Botton on TED.com

What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a “religion for atheists” — call it Atheism 2.0 — that incorporates religious forms and...

17 jan 12 2 people like this

Waterwise: Fellows Friday with Sonaar Luthra

Sonaar Luthra (watch his TED Talk) is packing water-safety analysis and mobile networking into the Water Canary — a handheld, open-source, and easy-to-use gadget accessible to all — hopin...

13 jan 12

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