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Reflections on TEDGlobal 2013: If you thought it lasted for a week, then...
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...
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TED News in Brief: Thomas Campbell on the Met’s discontinued admission tags,...
In the past week, we’ve noticed some fascinating TED-related news. Here, some highlights. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has discontinued its iconic candy-hued metal admission tags. Museum director...
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TED News in Brief: Bryan Stevenson on a “dehumanizing stare,” a playlist of...
In the past week, we’ve noticed some fascinating TED-related news. Here, some highlights. Bryan Stevenson (watch his talk from TED2012) is asking the state of Florida to reconsider its case against...
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The making of the TED2014 theater: an early view
A rendering of what speakers will see from the TED stage: flexible seating areas where attendees can lean forward or lean back as they please. The TED2014 theater will be something audacious: a theater...
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Chris Anderson on what makes a great talk … great
It’s an alchemic question that’s very hard for us to answer: what makes a great TED talk? In this talk, which was given to a gathering of 100+ TEDx organizers from 43 countries during the TEDx...
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A TED Talk inspires government change in North Vancouver
In his TED Talk, Dave Meslin wondered: What would happen if Nike advertised sneakers in the same way local governments announced important information — with long, bland, black-and-white newspaper ads...
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TEDWomen 2013: Invented Here. Registration now open.
The old saying goes: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Folded into this truism is a nugget of wisdom: that women so often are the ones driving innovation, the creative powerhouses surfacing new...
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6 talks to watch for Book Lovers Day
Chip Kidd designs book covers. Which makes today a good day to watch his TED Talk. Photo: James Duncan Davidson The Book. Few things are as universal, as ubiquitous and as transformative. On this Book...
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TED News in Brief: Bryan Stevenson speaks out on circumventing mandatory...
Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot of fascinating TED-related news items. Here, some highlights. Yesterday, U.S. attorney general Eric Holder announced a major relaxing of mandatory minimum...
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TEDCity2.0: the posters
“Dream me. Build me. Make me real.” This is the driving philosophy behind the upcoming event, TEDCity2.0. To visually represent the event, curators Courtney Martin and John Cary turned to the design...
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TED News in Brief: TED app featured during iPhone reveal, Pico Iyer breaks...
Today, Apple thrilled the tech world by revealing its two new iPhones, one a candy-colored, lower-priced model. And we were very excited to see our new TED iOS7 app featured in the presentation,...
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TED News in Brief: Chip Kidd writes a design book for kids, Young-ha Kim on...
Chip Kidd, who spoke about book cover design at TED2012, has written a children’s design manual. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot of TED-related news items in the...
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Translation by collaboration: A translators workshop in the Balkans
“In this place, you can connect to people that have been drawn apart for years by nationalists and the war. You can put them together in the same room and … people are talking about the greater good.”...
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13 TED Talks to cheer you up on a bad day
It’s a widely documented fact: bad days are cumulative. They begin with pouring yourself a bowl of cereal, only to find that you’re out of milk. They escalate with discovering that the hot water isn’t...
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Ashton Kutcher on being a “magnificent failure”
To close out TEDYouth, Ashton Kutcher gave a talk on failure. The kids in the audience had no idea he’d be stepping on the stage; his appearance caused quite a commotion. Photo: Ryan Lash “I am a...
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15 years of drones at TED, in five GIFs
In 1998, aircraft designer Paul MacCready gave a live demo of his two-ounce unmanned surveillance drone on the TED stage in Monterey. “You see what it sees. Imagine you’re a fly,” he told the assembled...
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Drones to deliver medicine and food? Drones for disaster relief? 6 ways a...
Andreas Raptopoulos of Matternet watches one of the company’s drones land on the TED stage. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Andreas Raptopoulos and his colleagues at Matternet are attempting to create a...
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Silesian, the 103rd language on TED.com, and the story behind it
A look at TEDxRawaRiver, an event in Poland where the first TEDx Talk in Silesian was given. By Krystian Aparta, as told to Kate Torgovnick Silesian is a Slavic language spoken by about 500,000 people...
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The daily battles of life, cut from paper and animated in 3D
Béatrice Coron doesn’t so much tell stories, as cut them. Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from paperAt TED2011, the French-born artist shared how she creates intricate, fantastical worlds by slashing...
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16 TED Talks that are perfect for procrastination
The few days before a holiday are brutal. It doesn’t matter if you have a lot of work on your plate or have midterms to study for — your mind just wants to be distracted from it all. And so, we bring...
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