Kermit the Frog gives a TEDx Talk, and Twitter loves it
Twitter was ablaze yesterday with some interesting news: Kermit the Frog had just become the first frog (albeit puppet) to give a TEDx Talk....
A rugged, mobile wifi device brings the web to schools in Africa and beyond, thanks to this TED Fellow
BRCK is best described as a “backup generator for the internet.” When it was announced, the idea of a rugged, rechargeable, mobi...
The Ebola vaccine, public speaking tips from our 3rd most-watched speaker, and a J.J. Abrams mystery
The members of the TED community have been very busy this week. Below, news briefs on what a few have been up to: Who’ll pay for the Ebola v...
The plot of ‘Interstellar,’ in 10 TED Talks
Since the first teaser in late 2013, we’ve been in countdown mode for Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s new outer-space epic tha...
Ideas chill in the Arctic Circle, as TEDx events highlight Aboriginal wisdom
In Northern Canada, near the Beaufort Sea, sits a tiny hamlet with a population of less than 700, consisting of mostly Aboriginal people. It...
How to learn a new language: 7 secrets from TED Translators
By Krystian Aparta They say that children learn languages the best. But that doesn’t mean that adults should give up. We asked some of...
The Art of Stillness in an age of distraction
The “T” in TED stands for technology. So it might sound counterintuitive that we would release a book about the need to unplug. But we live...
Watch this amazing talk from Rita Pierson
While our rights to share John Legend’s performance of “True Colors” have now expired, we hope you’ll enjoy this pow...
Ordinary people in an extraordinary moment: A TED Fellow shoot portraits of the men + women caught up in revolution in Ukraine
When Anastasia Taylor-Lind found herself in Kiev at the height of violence during Ukraine’s Independence Square protests, the document...