10 research tips for finding answers online
Before Danielle Thomson was our TED Prize researcher, she wrote trivia for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and spent years finding difficult-...
Feeling blue about the state of the ocean? How a TED Prize wish helped one woman create a sea change
“Thousands have lived without love; none without water,” said Sylvia Earle as she stood on the TED stage five years ago, accepti...
A teenage chef, a planetary geologist and a wordnik walk into TEDYouth: A look at the speaker lineup
TEDYouth is a free event just for middle and high school students. This year, it takes place on Saturday, November 15, at the Brooklyn Museu...
JR pastes up the past, a conference on the cybersecurity of medical devices, and the start of “space taxis”
The past two weeks have been busy for the members of the TED community. Some news highlights: Artist JR is bringing the past back to life wi...
7 things learned from a day spent watching TEDxCERN
Wednesday marked the second-ever TEDxCERN, the event organized by the folks at CERN, the famed particle physics research center in Geneva, S...
Invasion of the golden mussel: A TED Fellow wields genes to protect the Amazon
Back in the ’90s, the golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) hitched a ride on ships traveling from Asia to South America. In the past decade a...
Inspiring words from TED@IBM: The best way to predict the future is to invent it
By Laura McClure, Emily McManus and Kate Torgovnick May Big data is already transforming our daily lives. And at TED@IBM, a TED Institute ev...
Further reading and watching on Brazil, to get you in the spirit for TEDGlobal
TED has traveled to Tanzania, to Canada and to India. We’ve been to Germany, to Qatar and to assorted places throughout the United Kingdom a...
How a TEDx event spun up in Bhilwara
Bhilwara is a city in Rajasthan, India, famous for its textile industry. Textiles dominate the local economy; after agriculture, it’s the le...