Sebastião Salgado: A gallery of spectacular photographs
Ask photojournalists to name a peer they admire, and Sebastião Salgado’s name is sure to crop up. The Brazilian is renowned for the lo...
The language of photography: Q&A with Sebastião Salgado
I’ll never forget the first images of Sebastião Salgado’s that I ever saw. At the time, I was just getting into photography, and his images ...
TED and TED-Ed win 11 Webbys
The 2013 Webby winners are in, and we are thoroughly humbled by the number of times we see the word “TED” in the list. For each Webby catego...
Camille Seaman named a Knight Fellow
Photographer Camille Seaman sees the personality in elements of nature. The TED Fellow thrilled us at TED2011 with her haunting photos of po...
As we celebrate 20 years of the World Wide Web, lessons from Tim Berners-Lee
[ted id=484] “I wanted to reframe the way we use information, the way we work together.” Such was the kernel of an idea from one Tim Berners...
3 teenage thinkers with big ideas for energy
[ted id=1727] Taylor Wilson has been called “The Boy Who Played With Fusion” by Popular Science magazine. At age 9, Wilson stunned tour guid...
The future of the U.S. economy: TED fans join in the Robert Gordon/Erik Brynjolfsson debate
Last week, TED speakers Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson joined us for a live, one-hour debate on the future of the US economy. It was a...
Walking meetings? 5 surprising thinkers who swore by them
In today’s talk, Nilofer Merchant gives a startling statistic: we’re sitting, on average, for 9.3 hours per day—far more than the 7.7 hours ...
A new TED playlist delivers talks on language from curious wordsmiths
Language is at the heart of all our interactions — whether you’re texting, emailing, talking, singing or heatedly debating. So of cour...