Setting up for TED2013: Backstage photos
A monumental amount of effort goes into setting up for TED. This year’s iteration in Long Beach is no different. Construction of our stage s...
TED Weekends listens to outer space
Honor Harger isn’t your typical artist. Or your typical astronomer. At the TEDSalon London Spring 2011, Harger shared how she brings t...
A look at TED, from 1984 through the present
The first TED was held in 1984, the year George Orwell imagined in his classic novel. The second was held in 1990. In 2006, TED Talks were o...
TED Live: All that’s new with our online subscription community
Can’t make it to the TED2013 conference next week? Join an online community of TEDsters from around the world who will tune in to watch live...
X marks the spot: This week’s musical TEDx Talks
Each week, TEDx chooses four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community and its div...
7 talks on mapping the human brain
In his State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama teased the importance of mapping the human brain, hinting that it could be a go...
In short: A powerful spoken word reflection on bullying, the history of Bill Cosby’s sweaters
Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: In case you haven’t seen it yet, To This Da...
100 icebreakers for talks with strangers: A Q&A with TED Book author Davy Rothbart
If you could ask a stranger any question, what would it be? This is the question Davy Rothbart set out to answer when he embarked on a natio...
4 surprising lessons about education learned from data collected around the world
Education is generally thought of as a domestic policy issue. But what can we learn by looking at education on the global scale? In today’s ...