A last-minute Halloween costume: Be a TED speaker
If you’re trick-or-treating tonight but haven’t thought about a costume yet — and you have 20 minutes to run to the dollar store — a modest ...
An invention, a poem and a homemade animation: Meet some of this year’s TEDYouth attendees
The speakers at TEDYouth 2014 are a fascinating group, ranging from a paleontologist to a teenage chef. But the middle and high school stude...
TED Talk data visualized as a flow of words and a sphere of connections
At first glance, the image above may look like an artistic tangle of worms. But it is actually a visualization of the words that appear most...
The economy in 20 short films, what was on that NASA rocket and the Oscars for wildlife photographers
The past week brought lots of excitement for members of the TED community. Below, some highlights. Morgan Spurlock’s latest project, “We the...
8 smart strategies TEDx organizers use to find great speakers
Talks on science, space and dung beetles. Talks on philosophy, medicine and folding paper towels. Every day, all over the globe, TEDx organi...
How to run a brainstorm for introverts (and extroverts too)
Cocktail party trivia: Brainstorming was invented in the 1930s as a practical idea-generation technique for regular use by “creatives” withi...
How business can stay ahead of the curve in the age of data: Report from TED@BCG
Tuesday morning in the former East Berlin, the midcentury Kosmos cinema hummed with new ideas on business, technology and self, at an event ...
Art that floats: A TED Fellow plans an immersive experience on a boat
Constance Hockaday makes large-scale installations on open water. Identifying as a Chilean-American queer artist, Hockaday creates spaces th...
8 ideas for the future of cities
In 2012, the TED Prize was awarded to an idea: The City2.0, a place to celebrate actions taken by citizens around the world to make their ci...