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Life and logistics: The speakers at TED@UPS move things, in space and in theory
How exactly do you ship fragile dinosaur bones? Or move a 12.5-ton locomotive through the air? And what are all the little things that have to happen to get relief supplies delivered when and where...
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Teens in New York City: Come to TEDYouth 2015!
What will life be like in the year 2035? Will the typical classroom still be full of desks, or some kind of virtual wonderland? What are the issues everyone will be talking about? What kind of work...
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How I designed the colorful, campy TED Fellows Retreat
Camp: a home under the stars and sun. A space to dream, commune with friends, create — and play. That’s the atmosphere TED Fellows director Tom Rielly wanted to create for this year’s TED Fellows...
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What does innovation in education look like? A new program asks educators to...
“Innovation in education involves constant collaboration with colleagues — a total last-minute redo of a teacher’s lesson plan because there was something else out there that he or she just had to...
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How Roman Mars fought the instinct to give the big, grand, sweeping TED Talk...
Roman Mars had two ideas for his TED Talk: the talk he thought he should give and the talk he wanted to give. As the creator of 99% Invisible, a podcast about the design elements in life that usually...
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How stories can transform a classroom: StoryCorps interviews affect both...
Caitlyn, a quiet seventh grader, was bullied by the other kids in her class at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank, California. She wore the same cowboy boots every day. “The other kids were awful...
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Soy TED weaves ideas into thought-provoking TV en español
The latest TV show from TED’s creative team spins ideas from TED Talks in new directions — en español. Soy TED, a new Spanish-language TV series about big ideas, premieres on Vme TV this Friday,...
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Reframes, rethinks and bold calls: 16 speakers share ideas at TEDGlobal>London
In 1831, Michael Faraday stood in a lecture hall and demoed an idea that changed everything: electromagnetic induction. This work paved the way for widespread use of electricity. On September 29,...
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A TEDx event crosses the US-Mexico border, to show that ideas can’t be fenced in
Adriana Eguia Alaniz started her talk in the United States, speaking English. She ended it in Mexico, speaking Spanish. Welcome to TEDxMonumento258, an event held across the US-Mexico border. On...
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Want to give a tech demo or talk at TED2016? Apply to share your idea
Attention all engineers, inventors, makers, technology professionals and enthusiasts! TED is seeking jaw-dropping tech demos or talks, to be shared at our 2016 conference in Vancouver. The ideal...
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Remembering Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died on Sunday, August 30, at age 82. He’d announced in February that he was in the final stages of terminal cancer, and wrote a beautiful essay in the New York...
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Look closer at this collage of flags. You may just find a familiar face
You might know artist Liu Bolin by his outline. He paints himself to disappear into backgrounds, becoming a ghost-like presence in his images. (Watch his TED Talk, “The invisible man.”) It’s a trick...
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A “living fossil” spotted in the South Pacific, a machine that vomits +...
The TED community has news to share. Read on for highlights. The rarest animal on Earth, spotted once again. Peter Ward hadn’t seen his “old friend,” the Allonautilus scrobiculatus, since 1984. But he...
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2015 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners include two TED Fellows: Patrick Awuah...
The MacArthur Foundation revealed its list of 2015 Fellows this morning. Twenty-four people received the “genius grant,” a $625,000 no-strings-attached stipend — and two of them are TED Fellows:...
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At TED Talks Live, a dance reflects on how war affects families
At TED Talks Live, our first series of events on Broadway, ideas will be shared in all forms. Yes, in classic TED Talks. But also in music, poetry and dance. On November 3 and 4, during the War &...
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What speakers can learn from 11 of the funniest TED Talk spoofs
RejectTED Talks. Onion Talks. DED Talks. Here in the TED office, you often hear chuckles as someone watches one of the quickly growing crop of TED spoofs floating in the ether. And surprisingly, there...
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The first School in the Cloud learning lab in the United States opens in Harlem
On Wednesday morning at John B. Russwurm Elementary School in Harlem, students pointed excitedly at cat photos on the Internet. No, they weren’t goofing off. They were participating in a “self...
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Is necessity really the mother of invention? 14 speakers at TED@IBM challenge...
Some inventions are about solving a need. Others are about opening up our understanding of the world. Still others are motivated by a sense of whimsy or adventure. At TED@IBM, 14 speakers shared ideas...
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Announcing our 2016 TED Prize winner: Satellite archaeologist Sarah Parcak
She’s best described as the modern-day Indiana Jones. Using infrared imagery from satellites, she identifies ancient sites lost in time. In Egypt, she helped locate 17 potential pyramids, plus 1,000...
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Free live webcast: TEDYouth 2015 this Saturday
Get ready for the fifth annual TEDYouth, happening Saturday, Nov. 14. Hundreds of middle and high school students from all around New York City — and you too! — can watch a day of brilliant ideas,...
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