Play with the “Talk to Strangers” web toy! Animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 8
Play at http://www.thehumantype.org. Director’s statement: “An online application that allows strangers to talk to each other us...
Talk to Strangers: Session 8 at TEDGlobal2012
Click to watch the session-opening animation The promise of a globalized world is that we can talk to anyone, anywhere in the world. But how...
Guitar heroes: Q&A with Usman Riaz at TEDGlobal
Photo: James Duncan Davidson. Via the TED Fellows blog: Usman Riaz closed out the Wednesday sessions of TEDGlobal with an extraordinary perf...
The story behind the slides: Palantir’s presentation at TEDGlobal 2012
By now we’re all pretty familiar with the theory of presentations. Slides need to be bold, beautiful. They need to go easy on the amou...
First 5 awards for City 2.0 prize announced
From the TED Prize Blog: If you had asked the TED Prize team to predict the kind of work that would emerge from our call for urban innovatio...
Percussive guitar from the guy who invented it (and someone he inspired): Preston Reed and Usman Riaz at TEDGlobal2012
TEDGlobal Fellow Usman Riaz is an innovative musician who plays with vim and verve. He’s taken to the stage to enchant the assembled c...
Fixing our broken systems: TEDGlobal 2012 Day 2 recap
Photo: James Duncan Davidson The old adage goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. However, speakers during Day 2 of TEDGlobal 2012—the annua...
Realizing the promise of stem cells: Susan Solomon at TEDGlobal 2012
Susan Solomon is an advocate for more research into a promising treatment for many conditions: human stem cells. “They are our bodies&...
Sailing towards cheap, bountiful windpower: Hassine Labaied at TEDGlobal 2012
Hassine Labaied is here to talk wind. Specifically, wind power. “Wind is clean, free, perpetually renewable and widely distributed acr...