Worlds far and near, of the past and of the future: A recap of Session 1 of TEDYouth 2014
By Cynthia Betubiza, Ella Dawson and Kate Torgovnick May Session 1 of TEDYouth 2014 brought us to many worlds imagined. From a look at other...
A mobster’s daughter wants to talk to teens about guns. A young reporter finds out why
Jennifer Mascia reports on gun violence in America. For more than a year, at The New York Times, she and Joe Nocera wrote “The Gun Report,” ...
10 things you need to know about tapirs (psst: there’s a baby tapir named TED)
If you want to call someone a “jackass” in Brazil, you call them a “tapir.” These large, forest-dwelling mammals look a bit like...
A youth reporter finds out why it’s important to be nice in New York City from etiquette GIFer Nathan W. Pyle
Writer, cartoonist and New York City transplant Nathan W. Pyle is the creator of the street-savvy, GIFed-out NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette. L...
Two guys and an X: A road trip to visit 32 TEDx’ers
Two guys, a giant red X and an extremely unreliable compact car on a journey from London to Ulaanbaatar. Sounds like an ideal vacation, righ...
How live interpreters will bring TEDYouth into Spanish and Arabic, in real time
TEDYouth will be livestreamed on Saturday, November 15, for free — and not just in English. This event, meant for students and, well, ...
The evolution of a TED Book cover
In his talk, “Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is,” Chip Kidd (a TED Books designer in his own right) gives a wonderfully conci...
What would you like to learn today? Building a center for research into Self-Organized Learning
Picture a classroom teacher without a lesson plan — a teacher who instead asks students an open-ended question to explore: Can animals...
A TED speaker, discovered in a bar
Kate Stone’s journey to the TED stage began, of all places, in a London bar. In 2012, TED Curator Chris Anderson and Content Director Kelly ...