A portable feast: TED’s wooden pavilion
To build a 20-story building out of cement and concrete, 1,200 tons of carbon dioxide gets released; to construct the same building from woo...
Bobsledding our way to glory at TEDActive 2015
The most important rule in our safety briefing on the “Bobsleigh Sport Experience”: Put your gloves on, hold on to the wire inside the sled ...
Giant pouched rats, baby corals & the FBI: A recap of TEDFellows Session 2 at TED2015
In Session 2 of the TED Fellows talks, we learn about the FBI’s use of informants in counterterrorism operations, how giant pouched ra...
On blazars, quantum computers, and looking for life on Mars: A recap of TEDFellows Session 1 at TED2015
TED Fellows and Senior Fellows have just opened TED2015 with a bang in the beautiful Kay Meek theatre in Vancouver. In the first session, di...
Opening Gambit: A recap of the talks in Session 1 at TED2015
“It takes courage to uncover the truth,” says Chris Anderson, opening the first session of TED2015, Opening Gambit. “The s...
How a silent video can reveal sound: Abe Davis’ knockout tech demo at TED2015
Chris Anderson introduces this talk by saying that we were about to see a technology that could be as game-changing as Jeff Han’s touchscree...
Behind the scenes: The setup for TED2015
For TED2015, we have returned to Vancouver — bringing thinkers, dreamers and mavericks together to talk about our world and what’s com...
How we gave TED’s pop-up theater a mini-makeover
What’s your second act, after you build a pop-up theater for 1,300 people out of 8,000 pieces of Douglas fir? In 2014, architect David Rockw...
How to stay relaxed on a plane: 9 tips for calm flying from Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer is a global travel writer whose stories have taken him to the snowy mountains of Japan and a film festival in Pyongyang, North Kor...