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TED Senior Fellow Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo performs one of her poems, on identity and pride, a favorite of her mother’s. Gero Miesenboeck sa...
Sure, the web connects the whole world, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan...
As Session 9 was due to start at 2pm, everyone in their seats — boom: power outage! We had house lights but no stage lights, no sound,...
TEDGlobal speaker Laurie Santos holds up a monkey token — the first unit of nonhuman currency — in the ancient coin room at the ...
According to Tim Jackson, many of us are caught in a cycle of “spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need to cre...
From stage at TEDGlobal 2010, Pat Mitchell announces the next TED conference: TEDWomen, this December in Washington DC. TEDWomen will reveal...
Founder of Barrington Park Estate Farms Adrian Dolby asks “Can organic farming feed the world?” He knows we’re failing to ...
This year at TEDGlobal, Thomas Dolby has assembled his own group of musicians to perform with him on stage: Matthew Seligman Bass In the lat...
Miwa Matreyek travels from waterscape to starscape to cityscape and back again, magically interacting with visually striking animations. Nei...