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TED | Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley
Thank you very much. I moved to America 12 years ago with my wife Terry and our two kids. Actually, truthfully, we moved to Los Angeles — (Laughter) — thinking we were moving to America, but anyway, it’s a short plane ride from Los Angeles to America. I got here 12 years ago, and when […]
TED | John Legend: “True Colors”
May 10, 2013
Every now and then a good talk isn’t a talk at all. This special performance was set in the context of teachers and educators. Beautiful. ♪ You with the sad eyes ♪ ♪ Don’t be discouraged ♪ ♪ Oh, I realize ♪ ♪ It’s hard to take courage ♪ ♪ In a world full of […]
TED | Bill Gates: Teachers need real feedback
May 9, 2013
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. (Laughter) My bridge coach, Sharon Osberg, says there are more pictures of the back of her head than anyone else’s in the world. (Laughter) Sorry, Sharon. Here you go. We all need people who […]
TED | Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!
May 9, 2013
I’m a little nervous, because my wife Yvonne said to me, she said, “Geoff, you watch the TED Talks.” I said, “Yes, honey, I love TED Talks.” She said, “You know, they’re like, really smart, talented — “ I said, “I know, I know.” (Laughter) She said, “They don’t want, like, the angry black man.” […]
TED | Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong
March 17, 2013
I want to talk about social innovation and social entrepreneurship. I happen to have triplets. They’re little. They’re five years old. Sometimes I tell people I have triplets. They say, “Really? How many?” Here’s a picture of the kids. That’s Sage and Annalisa and Rider. Now, I also happen to be gay. Being gay and […]
TED | Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there’s good news)
March 15, 2013
Chris Anderson asked me if I could put the last 25 years of anti-poverty campaigning into 10 minutes for TED. That’s an Englishman asking an Irishman to be succinct. (Laughter) I said, “Chris, that would take a miracle.” He said, “Bono, wouldn’t that be a good use of your messianic complex?” So, yeah. Then I […]
TED | Shane Koyczan: “To This Day” … for the bullied and beautiful
March 12, 2013
When I was a kid, I hid my heart under the bed, because my mother said, “If you’re not careful, someday someone’s going to break it.” Take it from me. Under the bed is not a good hiding spot. I know because I’ve been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just […]
TED | Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money?
March 6, 2013
The global economic financial crisis has reignited public interest in something that’s actually one of the oldest questions in economics, dating back to at least before Adam Smith. And that is, why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies and institutions can display radically different savings behavior? Now, many brilliant economists have spent their […]
TED | Sarah Kay: Should I have a daughter…
March 3, 2013
If I should have a daughter, instead of “Mom,” she’s gonna call me “Point B,” because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the […]
TED | Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included
October 20, 2012
Beau Lotto: So, this game is very simple. All you have to do is read what you see. Right? So, I’m going to count to you, so we don’t all do it together. Okay, one, two, three. Audience: Can you read this? BL: Amazing. What about this one? One, two, three. Audience: You are not […]
TED | Brené Brown: The Power of Vulnerability
September 27, 2012
So, I’ll start with this: a couple years ago, an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event. And she called, and she said, “I’m really struggling with how to write about you on the little flier.” And I thought, “Well, what’s the struggle?” And she said, “Well, I saw […]
TED | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain
September 27, 2012
Fifteen years ago, it was widely assumed that the vast majority of brain development takes place in the first few years of life. Back then, 15 years ago, we didn’t have the ability to look inside the living human brain and track development across the lifespan. In the past decade or so, mainly […]
TED | Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
July 21, 2012
http://littlebits.cc/, http://ayahbdeir.com/ This may sound strange, but I’m a big fan of the concrete block. The first concrete blocks were manufactured in 1868 with a very simple idea: modules made of cement of a fixed measurement that fit together. Very quickly concrete blocks became the most-used construction unit in the world. They enabled us to […]
TED | Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
July 9, 2012
I’m Jane McGonigal. I’m a game designer. I’ve been making games online now for 10 years, and my goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games. Now, I have a plan […]
TED | Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?
June 26, 2012
All right. So, like all good stories, this starts a long, long time ago when there was basically nothing. So here is a complete picture of the universe about 14-odd billion years ago. All energy is concentrated into a single point of energy. For some reason it explodes, and you begin to get these things. […]
TED | Marco Tempest: A Magical Tale (with Augmented Reality)
April 8, 2012
Marco Tempest: What I’d like to show you today is something in the way of an experiment. Today’s its debut. It’s a demonstration of augmented reality. And the visuals you’re about to see are not prerecorded. They are live and reacting to me in real time. I like to think of it as a kind […]
TED | Marco Tempest: The Magic of Truth & Lies
April 8, 2012
So the type of magic I like, and I’m a magician, is a magic that uses technology to create illusions. So I would like to show you something I’ve been working on. It’s an application that I think will be useful for artists — multimedia artists in particular. It synchronizes videos across multiple screens of […]
TED | Sherry Turkle : Connected But Alone?
April 8, 2012
Just a moment ago, my daughter Rebecca texted me for good luck. Her text said, “Mom, you will rock.” I love this. Getting that text was like getting a hug. And so there you have it. I embody the central paradox. I’m a woman who loves getting texts who’s going to tell you that too […]
TED | Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts
March 22, 2012
The Book, the Website, the Press, and the TED talk: When I was nine years old I went off to summer camp for the first time. And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do. Because in my family, reading was the […]
TED | Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk About an Injustice
March 5, 2012
http://www.eji.org/eji/ | http://jjie.org/founder-of-equal-justice-initiative-greeted-standing-ovation-at-ted/76755 Bryan Stevenson spends most of his time in jails and prisons and on death row. He’s a lawyer, and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. So he’s found it very energizing at TED, and wanted to start by pointing out that there is a distinct identity here. Things said here have a power […]
TED | Kathryn Schulz: Don’t Regret Regret
March 4, 2012
So that’s Johnny Depp, of course. And that’s Johnny Depp’s shoulder. And that’s Johnny Depp’s famous shoulder tattoo. Some of you might know that, in 1990, Depp got engaged to Winona Ryder, and he had tattooed on his right shoulder “Winona forever.” And then three years later — which in fairness, kind of is forever […]
TED | Peter Diamandis: Abundance is Our Future
March 4, 2012
(Video) Announcer: Threats, in the wake of Bin Laden’s death, have spiked. Announcer Two: Famine in Somalia. Announcer Three: Police pepper spray. Announcer Four: Vicious cartels. Announcer Five: Caustic cruise lines. Announcer Six: Societal decay. Announcer Seven: 65 dead. Announcer Eight: Tsunami warning. Announcer Nine: Cyber-attacks. Multiple Announcers: Drug war. Mass destruction. Tornado. Recession. Default. […]
TED | Paul Gilding: The Earth is Full
March 4, 2012
Let me begin with four words that will provide the context for this week, four words that will come to define this century. Here they are: The Earth is full. It’s full of us, it’s full of our stuff, full of our waste, full of our demands. Yes, we are a brilliant and creative species, […]
TED | Chris Bliss: Comedy is Translation
March 2, 2012
Gabriel García Márquez is one of my favorite writers, for his storytelling, but even more, I think, for the beauty and precision of his prose. And whether it’s the opening line from “One Hundred Years of Solitude” or the fantastical stream of consciousness in “Autumn of the Patriarch,” where the words rush by, page after […]
TED | Neil MacGregor: 2600 Years of History in One Object
February 29, 2012
The things we make have one supreme quality — they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many. I want this morning to talk about the […]
TEDx | Drew Dudley: Everyday Leadership
February 11, 2012
I want to start just by asking everyone in the audience a question. How many of you are completely comfortable calling yourselves a leader? See, I’ve asked that question all the way across the country, and everywhere I ask it, no matter where, there’s always a huge portion of the audience that won’t put up […]
TED | Nancy Duarte: The Secret Structure of Great Talks
February 9, 2012
The most powerful device known to man: an idea. A single idea from the human mind; it can start a groundswell, a flashpoint for a movement, and it can rewrite the future. But, an idea is powerless if it stays inside of you. The only difference between an idea that is adopted and an idea […]
TED | Salman Khan – Lets Use Video To Reinvent Education
January 28, 2012
Home: khanacademy.org Twitter: @khanacademy The Khan Academy is most known for its collection of videos, so before I go any further, let me show you a little bit of a montage. SK: We now have on the order of 2,200 videos covering everything from basic arithmetic all the way to vector calculus and some of […]
TED | Alain deBotton: Atheism 2.0 – Notes & Review
January 22, 2012
One of the most fascinating talks on religion and secularism, a programme of bringing both forward. My notes and review below. — NOTES — I would like to inaugurate a new way of being an atheist. PREMISE: Of course, there is no God. Of course, there are no deities or supernatural spirits or angels, etc. […]
TED | Philip Zimbardo: The Heroic Imagination Project
September 4, 2011
At HIP, we believe everyone has the potential to transform the private virtue of compassion into the civic virtue of heroic action, and we are dedicated to helping individuals internalize and express their ‘heroic imagination’ in service to humanity. Phil Zimbardo and the Heroic Imagination Project: TED Blog exclusive video. http://heroicimagination.org/ My new mission in life […]
TED | Kathryn Schulz: On Being Wrong
April 26, 2011
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. The present tense is where we live. … We all end up trapped in this bubble of feeling right about everything. I think this is a problem. Why is this a problem? Is it possible to step outside of this problem? Why do we get stuck in […]
TED | Stanley McChrystal: Listen, Learn…Then Lead
April 26, 2011
“Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.” “I probably learned the most about relationships; that they are the sinews that hold a force together.” “A leader isn’t good because they’re right. They’re good because they’re willing to learn and to trust.”
TED | Birke Baehr: What’s Wrong With Our Food System
January 2, 2011
TED | Birke Baehr: What’s Wrong With Our Food System There is a movement… A while back I wanted to be a professional football player. I’ve decided I want to be an organic farmer instead. And that way I can have a greater impact on the world. We can all make a difference, by making […]
TED | Sheryl Sandberg: Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
January 2, 2011
Sheryl Sandberg: Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders While we’ve made advances, there are still too few women in top positions of leadership. How are we going to fix this? I’m convinced that women are dropping out. However, today, I want to focus on we, as individuals, the messages we need to tell ourselves […]
TED | William Ury: The Walk From “No” to “Yes”
December 3, 2010
Find The Eighteenth Camel There is this Middle Eastern story of a man who willed to his three sons his 17 camels. To the first son 1/2 of the camels, to the second son 1/3, and to the third son 1/9. 17 doesn’t divide by any of those numbers. Conflict arose, and they decided to […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place
October 6, 2010
— VIA — Unconventional, witty, funny, innovative, vision-driven, and staunchly ethical. While many of the faith community would balk at the blatant disregard for “values,” in a puritanical sense, the ethic for “saving lives,” and “increasing standards of living,” is clear and ought to be acknowledged and applauded. A few things I appreciated: 1. The […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation
September 23, 2010
http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_how_web_video_powers_global_innovation.html There are 9 billion people coming our way. Dancers have created a whole global laboratory online. Kids in Japan are taking moves from a YouTube video created in Detroit, building on it within days and releasing a new video, while teenagers in California are taking the Japanese video and remixing it to create a […]
The TED Commandments
August 16, 2010
This is from Fast Company’s article, “How TED Connects the Idea-Hungry Elite.” (September 1, 2010) (.pdf) 7 easy steps for getting into TED: 1. Get In. Start in the minor leagues and try to get in. 2. Boil it Down. 18 minutes. 15 minutes too trivial. 20 minutes too long (and people would talk for […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Ken Robinson on Bring on the Learning Revolution
May 26, 2010
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! TED, February 2010. Picking up from his 2006 talk, … I believe there is a second climate crisis which is as severe, which has the same origins and we have to deal with, with the same urgency. This is a crisis, not of natural resources, but a […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action
May 25, 2010
Also his book, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html So, why does Apple, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Wright Brothers inspire when there are so many others doing the same thing? There’s something else at play here. There’s a pattern. All the great inspiring leaders think, act, and […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Adora Svitak: What Adults Can Learn From Kids
April 28, 2010
Adora Svitak: What Adults Can Learn From Kids. TED: February, 2010. Adora’s website. Here is the entire transcript of her talk: I want to start with a question. “When was the last time you were called childish?” For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Beau Lotto’s Optical Illusions
November 15, 2009
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see.html …nearly every living system has evolved the ability to detect light in one way or another. So, for us, seeing color is one of the simplest things the brain does. And yet, even at this most fundamental level, context is everything. What I want to talk about is not that context is everything, but […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Daniel Dennett – Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny: An Evolutionary Riddle
March 20, 2009
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_dennett_cute_sexy_sweet_funny.html I find Daniel Dennett to be one of the most challenging atheist philosophers for several reasons. First, he is, in my perspective, respectable and reasonable as well as intelligent in his argumentation. While others are vitriolic, Dennett continues to pose thoughts and ideas that are honorable to the field of science, philosophy, and even […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Aimee Mullins: How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers
March 14, 2009
Aimee Mullins: How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers. February 2009. (Running on High Tech Legs, February 1998). http://www.aimeemullins.com/ First, some fantastic quotes and nuggets. Regarding kids and curiosity: Kids are naturally curious about what they don’t know or don’t understand. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to […]
OLPC: One Laptop Per Child & Nicholas Negroponte’s TED Talk
November 26, 2008
(This is the first of two posts that highlight endeavors that are helping to change the world through creative and contrarian ways of thinking.) You can learn more about OLPC through the Amazon videos here, and their website: http://www.laptop.org/en/. You can buy the laptops at Amazon.com. Founded in 2005 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte. Mission […]
Charter For Compassion | TED Prize Winner
November 13, 2008
This site launched today (November 13). The front site reads: Help us create a Charter for Compassion People of all nations, all faiths, all backgrounds, are invited to contribute. By recognizing that the Golden Rule is fundamental to all world religions, the Charter for Compassion can inspire people to think differently about religion. This Charter […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Billy Graham On Technology, Faith, and Suffering
July 17, 2008
One of the reasons why TED is so good, is that they’re willing to reach to any direction for truth and discovery. This talk by Billy Graham highlights the three problems that technology cannot solve. Beginning with the Hittite development of Iron and the Israelites’ adaptation of that technology, a move that helped poise the […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Alisa Miller – The News About the News
July 2, 2008
As the CEO of American Public Radio, Alisa Miller brings an extremely insightful look at the breadth of American media. The short 4 1/2 min. talk is here. [If anyone has a the actual graphics that she used in her talk, I would love to get a hold of those.] I suppose we could consider […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Robert Full On Engineering & Evolution, and Missional Tinkering
July 1, 2008
For some reason, there is a perplexing and tense relationship between people of faith and the topic of evolution. In this talk by Robert Full (one of the most fun and fascinating talks I’ve seen at TED), the two cross paths at an unusual term used by Full in his talk, the same term titling […]
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