Behind the scenes of TEDxWarsaw
Photo Credits: Janusz Kobyliński/TEDxWarsaw, Aleks Grynis TEDster Vlad Fiscutean — licensee of TEDx Timisoara in Romania met with Ralph Talmont — one of the licensee of TEDx Warsaw in Poland to talk about his experience organizing the Poland event. Written by Vlad Fiscutean, May 25 2011 and published on the official TEDx Blog. ...
Your chance to audition for TED2012
On May 24, TED is holding the first-ever audition for TED Talks. It will take place in New York in front of a live audience made up of TED staff and members of the TED community. The audition will be recorded, and the best talks could either be posted on TED.com or win an invitation...
10 things you need to know before pitching to a venture capitalist
Thinking startup? David S. Rose’s rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself — and prove to a VC — before you fire up your slideshow. TED2007 • Filmed Mar 2007 • Sep 2008 More about David S. Rose: “The...
JR’s TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out
With a camera, a dedicated wheatpasting crew and the help of whole villages and favelas, 2011 TED Prize winner JR shows the world its true face. JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he...
Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women
Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. TEDWomen • Filmed Dec 2010 • Posted Dec 2010
(Best of the Web) Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music
About this Best of The Web Video Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”, from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009. World Science Festival • Filmed Jun 2009 • Posted Feb 2010
Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do
Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.
Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!
About this TED Talk At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050. TED 2010 • Filmed Feb 2010 • Posted Feb...
Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.
