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TED Radio Hour presents “Unstoppable Learning”
Our minds and bodies constantly master lessons from our surroundings. In other words, we seem to have a natural inclination to learn. That is the idea behind this week’s TED Radio Hour: “Unstoppable...
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A new playlist from Sir Ken Robinson, the most-watched speaker on TED.com
Sir Ken Robinson is not just an amazing orator — he is the most-viewed speaker on TED.com. His three talks have been viewed an astounding 21.5 million times, making him the sneezing baby panda of the...
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TEDsters in the news: Ron Finley dubbed ‘Appleseed with an Attitude,’ Malcolm...
Ron Finley electrified the audience at TED2013 with his fresh take on guerilla gardening. Photo: James Duncan Davidson This weekend, we opened up the Style section of The New York Times to see a very...
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The story behind my new TED Talk: Giving teachers what they deserve
Bill Gates speaks on teachers’ need to get better feedback. Watch his talk during our first television special, TED Talks Education, airing Tuesday, May 7 at 10/9c on PBS. Photo: Ryan Lash By Bill...
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Playlist: 6 education ideas from unlikely places
Geoffrey Canada rocked the audience at TED Talks Education with his passionate talk. Photo: Ryan Lash Geoffrey Canada gives a very interesting analogy in today’s TED Talk: He compares the current...
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7 talks for inspiring transformed curriculums
With more colleges shifting courses to the online classroom and high school teachers and students alike expressing a strong desire to move away from rigid, mandated lesson arcs, it’s clear — classes...
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The secrets of TED’s (award-winning!) design
This is how speakers stay focused as they give TED Talks: a “confidence” monitor onstage, shown here at TED2011. Slide design: WORKSHOP/staff. Photograph: James Duncan Davidson. It is, indeed, a...
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Fuel cell symphonies and art from gift bag wrappers: The Reimagine Project...
Soft-spoken and self-effacing, Andy Cavatorta performed with punk bands in the early 1990s, has worked with Bjork and is a graduate of MIT’s Media Lab. His counterintuitive resume has led him to...
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TED news in brief: Esther Perel on female libido, an update on Henry...
Below, take a look at some of the TED speakers and Fellows who are cropping up in the news this week. Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationshipLybrido, a drug to treat women with...
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Bones of remembrance: Fellows Friday with Naomi Natale
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...
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Playing memory games on this week’s TED Radio Hour
How do you keep memories? And how much can you trust those preservations? This week’s TED Radio Hour, “Memory Games,” looks at recollections versus actual experiences, sorts through our tendency to...
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Chris Anderson shares his tips for giving a killer presentation
Watching curator Chris Anderson in speaker rehearsals before a TED conference feels like witnessing the zen of a longtime coach who knows his sport both inside out and backwards. Whenever a trial run...
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How to watch (or experience) TED all around the world
Across the globe, anyone can watch TED Talks through TED.com, our YouTube channel, our mobile apps or our iTunes podcasts. (Have you checked out TED Studies on iTunes U?) Most recently, our new SmartTV...
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TED’s updated iOS app lets you control download setting, get push notifications
Thanks to your feedback and suggestions, we’ve made a few tweaks in our latest iOS app (Version 2.1.1) that will help you view videos more easily, share them more widely and just generally be in the...
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Your mega summer reading list: 200 books recommended by TEDsters
A look at the famous TED Bookstore at TED2013. Photo: Michael Brands Books can entertain, sucking you like a tornado into incredible new worlds. Books can teach, giving you a richer understanding of...
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Energy from your feet: When sidewalks and dance floors become energy sources
Sustainable Dance Floor doesn’t just light up—it generates electricity as you dance. Photo: Anneke Hymmen, courtesy of Energy Floors The average person takes about 150 millions steps in a lifetime....
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TED Newsmakers: Samantha Power to become ambassador to the UN, Jennifer...
Samantha Power (left) and Jennifer Pahlka (right) speak at TED2008 and TED2012, respectively. Today, Barack Obama will be naming a new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations – and sources say that it...
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Holding his breath underwater for 17 minutes didn’t scare David Blaine—but...
David Blaine’s latest stunt is called “Electrified.” Photo: Courtesy of David Blaine David Blaine is the master of the endurance stunt. In 1999, he was buried alive in a clear box underneath three...
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Found in translation: A look at the Translators Workshop at TEDGlobal 2013
Shadia Ramsahye is a Mauritian-born digital media student living in Paris. She speaks four languages — Mauritian Creole, French, English and Urdu — and translates TED Talks into the latter, which she...
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TED News in Brief: Edi Rama becomes prime minister of Albania, Human...
The past two weeks have seen some fascinating TED-related news items. Below, highlights. As the mayor of Tirana, Albania, Edi Rama transformed his city into a multi-colored explosion of geometric...
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