How a model of mentorship is helping TEDx grow throughout Iran
It’s not every day that you see a desert cyclist, a Tanbour virtuoso, a Persian literature professor and a health systems expert in the same...
Why we need to build the stuff of science fiction: A teen reporter talks to a music technologist
Gil Weinberg creates musically included robots so good they can improvise. The founder of the Music Technology program at Georgia Tech, he a...
Amanda Palmer on expanding her TED Talk into a book and getting a lesson in vulnerability from Brené Brown
Amanda Palmer’s new book grew out of a simple fact: that she couldn’t cram every relevant story into her 14-minute TED Talk. So she has expa...
TEDYouth 2014, in pictures
TEDYouth 2014 was an explosion of “Worlds Imagined.” On Saturday, November 15, New York students gathered for a day of punchy, i...
Mobility in its many forms: Inspiring words from the TEDCity2.0 Salon
By Kate Torgovnick May and Thu-Huong Ha In the past 30 years, 300 million people in China have left rural areas and moved to cities. Which m...
Announcing our TED Prize 2015 winner: Dave Isay of StoryCorps
“I’m a storyteller.” It’s a sentence that can be found in a wide variety of TED Talks — because, really, it is the heart of what we do...
7 StoryCorps stories that Dave Isay just can’t get out of his head
I can’t tell you how completely shocked I am to win the TED Prize. For those of you who haven’t heard of StoryCorps, it’s ...
Funky words and photos from Mars: A recap of Session 3 from TEDYouth 2014
The final session of TEDYouth 2014 focuses on what makes us human — the way we talk, the way we walk, the words we sing, the waves we ...
Rhythmic robots, tiny houses, healing leeches: A recap of Session 2 of TEDYouth 2014
By Cynthia Betubiza, Ella Dawson and Kate Torgovnick May Session 2 of TEDYouth 2014 offered talks to rouse the spirit and a few to gross you...