TEDxSydney sets up at the Opera House: A timelapse
On May 4, a TEDx event took place in one of the most architecturally recognizable sites in the world — the Sydney Opera House. Here, w...
A library revolution, started in part by Jane McGonigal’s TED Talk
Libraries are generally where you go to check out books; not where you go if you want to write one. This is an old assumption that Librii &#...
World on Its Head: A Q&A about ideas behind a guest-curated TEDGlobal session
Session 6 of TEDGlobal 2013 has a captivating title: “World on Its Head.” Guest curated by Nassim Assefi and Gabriella Gómez-Mon...
Crowdsourcing limitations: How you can become a part of Phil Hansen’s latest art piece
As an artist, I’m always interested in looking at the defining moments in our lives, understanding how these moments affect us and finding d...
Responding to the petition to disinvite George Papandreou from TEDGlobal
An online petition was posted early this past weekend, asking that “the TEDGlobal conference organizers remove George Papandreou from ...
North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee reunited with the man who saved her family
A total stranger helped Hyeonseo Lee pay her mother and brother’s way out of jail as they fled from North Korea. Now, four years later, Lee ...
Fuel cell symphonies and art from gift bag wrappers: The Reimagine Project launches with the TEDActive 2013 artists-in-residence
Soft-spoken and self-effacing, Andy Cavatorta performed with punk bands in the early 1990s, has worked with Bjork and is a graduate of MIT’s...
20+ resources for better giving and living a more altruistic life
Every day, most of us do something morally indefensible — we go about our lives without sending help to the 6.9 million children under...
Turning Haiti, Tunisia and the West Bank inside out: A documentary on JR’s worldwide participatory art project to air on HBO tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oe_pwKgbTU “We use images like a weapon to fight for social causes,” says a man in the trailer for INSIDE OU...