Crisis Text Line has counseled teens through nearly 2 million problems. Here’s how this idea got its start.
Teenagers love to text—their thumbs pound out an average of 3,339 texts per month. Crisis Text Line turns this into a way to help teens thro...
A new talk sketched daily, by fan Stefani Bachetti
TEDSketchNotes.Tumblr.com gives you Cliffs Notes to talks from speakers like Del Harvey, Ken Robinson, Andras Forgacs and Ed Yong, in sketch...
The math behind the movies: An interview with Tony DeRose of Pixar
Pixar films are known for their thoughtful storytelling and groundbreaking animation. One of the coolest things about these movies: the math...
Explorer Steve Boyes takes us on an epic journey to save Africa’s last remaining wetland wilderness
Steve Boyes is passionately devoted to the preservation of wilderness, as well as to restoring and protecting species and landscapes already...
Mosquito Week, casting “Star Wars: Episode VII,” a dolphin’s first word, and the linguistic use of “totally”
Below, some intriguing news highlights from the TED community over the past month: You’ve heard of Shark Week, but what about Mosquito Week?...
Have a TED Talk in you? Many applied to speak at TED@NYC, and the speakers are…
For the past four years, TED has held an annual evening salon in New York City to find talents, voices and ideas that the world needs to hea...
Webby winners announced, and we are thrilled
The 2014 Webby Award winners are in, and we are excited to see TED honored in four categories: In the category Online Film & Video: Even...
A year into his School in the Cloud documentary, Jerry Rothwell shares the highs and lows of watching students teach themselves
British director Jerry Rothwell, the winner of the first annual Sundance Institute | TED Prize Filmmaker Award, has spent the past year trai...
Gaza’s only female photojournalist, Eman Mohammed, shows the devastation of war on private lives
At the age of 19, Eman Mohammed became the only female photojournalist based in Gaza, breaking longstanding cultural taboos around the role ...