Organizing principles: Notes from Session 5 of TEDSummit
Do we have the vision and the energy to confront seemingly impossible problems — like predatory corporations, political deadlock, the ...
I am British: Alexander Betts at TEDSummit
“I am British.” Alexander Betts says this, and pauses. “Never before has the phrase ‘I am British’ elicited so...
Forest for the trees: Suzanne Simard at TEDSummit
Have you ever stood among the trees — those tall, stoic, magnificent plants — listening to their leaves rustle in the wind and imagined quie...
Pathways: Notes from Session 4 of TEDSummit
This morning’s Session 4 explored the ways we connect — the pathways our money takes, our communication, our trust, even our int...
How Syria’s buildings laid the foundation for brutal war: Marwa Al-Sabouni at TEDSummit
“E pluribus unum” worked in Syria once too. The merciless six-year civil war in Syria has destroyed cities, killed hundreds of thousan...
Building blocks: Notes from Session 3 at TEDSummit
What are the tools we’re using to build the future? Session 3 speakers go deep on what’s next in finance, energy, business and t...
From 1984 to 2016: TED Talks about interfaces to our technology
Over the past 10 years, TED Talks videos have tracked our ever-tighter relationship with technology — including the tools we use to ac...
Meet some of the world’s most colorful idioms
“Cowness hasn’t gone, buffaloness intervened” … and other idioms from around the world, chosen and explained by 47 d...
African growth is not a fluke: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at TEDSummit 2016
African growth is a trend, not a fluke, says economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. While the continent’s rocketship growth of the late 2000s ...