Empowering autistic children: Ajit Narayanan at TED2013
Hailing from the Talent Search salon in Bangalore, Ajit Narayanan is here to tell us about his work helping autistic children to communicate...
The story of writing in Africa: Saki Mafundikwa at TED2013
Saki Mafundikwa founded the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts, ZIVA, a Bauhaus-style school focused on African heritage. (“Vigital” denotes...
Coded Meaning: Speakers in Session 8 at TED2013
Communication in 2013 looks so different from what it ever has before. Will technology be the ruin of all that is good and true in language?...
Gallery: TED2013 so far, in comic form
Fever Picture is a collective of scribes and graphic facilitators who translate the words said in conferences into comic form. With this gra...
Quoted at TED2013: Julian Treasure on five-senses design
Julian Treasure watches out for the ears. In the four TED Talks he’s given so far, he’s offered up “5 ways to listen bette...
The winner of the TED/Prezi contest remixes Bryan Stevenson’s “We need to talk about an injustice”
Last spring, Robyn Grobler shared a fascinating theory at TED@Johannesburg, one of the 14 stops on our worldwide talent search to find untol...
Quoted at TED2013: Dong Woo Jang on making bows in the concrete forest of Seoul
Yesterday, during the session “Create!,” 15-year-old Dong Woo Jang delighted us with his tale of bow-making. I caught up with hi...
Sugata Mitra shares his 5 favorite talks about education
Sugata Mitra’s bold efforts towards advancing learning earned him the first-ever $1 million dollar TED Prize. At TED2013, Sugata asked the g...
How movies can influence technology
Last night at TED2013, the Motion Picture Association of America hosted a nighttime discussion on the topic of how film has shaped some of m...