Wisdom Blog

Articles, reflections, and teachings from our community.

Film

Capturing fragile Earth in wide-angle: Yann Arthus-Bertrand on TED.com

In this image-filled talk, Yann Arthus-Bertrand displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat — stunning aerial ...

Jun 3, 2009
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A university for the coming singularity: Ray Kurzweil on TED.com

Ray Kurzweil‘s latest graphs show that technology’s breakneck advances will only accelerate — recession or not. He unveils...

Jun 2, 2009
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Crowd-fund your project with Kickstarter

Friends of TED write in to tell us about Kickstarter, a new crowd-enabled funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, jo...

Jun 1, 2009
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Education

A call to reinvent liberal arts education: Liz Coleman on TED.com

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward i...

Jun 1, 2009
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Art

Q&A with Kaki King: The evolution of a guitarist

In 2008, Kaki King charmed and impressed the TED community with her melodic and exuberant style of guitar-playing. Yesterday, TED’s Me...

May 29, 2009
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Music

"Playing with Pink Noise": Kaki King on TED.com

Kaki King, the first female on Rolling Stone’s “guitar god” list, rocks out to a full live set at TED2008, including her b...

May 29, 2009
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Why we’re storing billions of seeds: Jonathan Drori on TED.com

In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity — one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants s...

May 28, 2009
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Why we're posting a Michelle Obama speech as today's TEDTalk

Today’s TEDTalk is unusual. It wasn’t recorded at a conference, but at a public event. And it features America’s first lad...

May 27, 2009
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Language

The world’s English mania: Jay Walker on TED.com

Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chines...

May 26, 2009
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