This July 4, protests against data surveillance
[ted id=1518] Today, several US-based internet communities — including 4chan (watch Christopher “moot” Poole’s TED T...
TED News in Brief: Thomas Campbell on the Met’s discontinued admission tags, Angela Patton’s father-daughter dance on ABC News
In the past week, we’ve noticed some fascinating TED-related news. Here, some highlights. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has discontinued it...
Say cheese, world. Saturn is watching.
In her 2007 TED Talk, “This is Saturn,” planetary scientist Carolyn Porco blew some minds with images taken by Cassini, the robo...
Further reading (and listening) on the shrinking boundary between humans and computers
“Throughout the history of computers, we’ve been striving to shorten the gap between us and digital information, the gap between our physica...
Reflections on TEDGlobal 2013: If you thought it lasted for a week, then “Think Again”
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/69568276 w=560&h=315] The weeks after TEDGlobal require serious debriefing. Throughout the course of the con...
Some things are just untranslatable: TEDx playlists in French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian
With the increased teaching of English around the globe, world languages are dying at a rate of one every 14 days. In her classic talk from ...
Joel Selanikio’s system for collecting big data on global health: A tale of two playlists
It may be the age of big data, but it’s still very hard to know how many children were born in Bolivia or Botswana last year, or to know som...
Want to speak at TED2014? Apply to speak at TED@NYC this fall
At TED2013 this spring, 34 passionate speakers made it onto the program via a worldwide, 14-city, six-continent Talent Search. The theme of ...
8 talks about China
“When I was growing up, I was told a story that explained all I ever needed to know about humanity. It went like this,” says Eric X. Li in t...