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Curiosity Matters
knowing what we see rather than seeing what we know
TED | TED Blog- Watch Session 7 of TED2012 — free February 23, 2012On Wednesday night, join the world to watch Session 7 of TED2012 for free. In Session 7, the TED Prize wish for this year’s winner, The City 2.0, will be revealed onstage, and you’ll hear great speakers on the subject of cities … updates from past TED Prize winners, including last year’s winner, JR … and inspiring music from the […]Emily McManus
- Counting down to TED2012: A roundup of guides, schedules and links February 23, 2012Building the stage for TED2012 at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center on Wednesday night. Photo: Jason Wishnow It’s almost time for TED2012: Full Spectrum! On Monday at 1:30pm California time, our first pre-session begins with the remarkable TED Fellows conference. While the two sessions of the TED Fellows conference won’t be livestreamed, look […]tedstaff
- Meet the TED2012 Fellows – download our guide February 21, 2012Meet the phenomenal new TED2012 Fellows in our just-released downloadable guide. Inside you’ll find photos and profiles of all 65 Fellows onsite: the class of TED2012 as well as all three classes of Senior Fellows. Dive in to explore their lives, work and ideas — and prepare to lose your socks! Download the TED2012 Fellows guide >> […]Karen Eng
- Join a TEDActive Project! February 20, 2012Welcome to the TEDActive 2012 Projects! Whether or not you’re attending TEDActive in Palm Springs next week, you’re invited to join a few brainstorms and get ideas flowing around six big topics. Jump into the online discussions, find other amazing people and spark collaborative conversation on Facebook. There are six projects listed below. Read t […]Shanna Carpenter
- What’s it like to dance onstage at TED? Galen Hooks from The LXD February 18, 2012MoveTVnetwork asked dancer and choreographer Galen Hooks, shown above in rehearsal with The LXD, about her favorite performing moment. In this wonderful 4-minute interview, she talks about what it was like to dance onstage at TED2010 — and to receive the longest standing ovation in TED history: Watch the full video of The LXD at TED2010 >> Photo: […]Emily McManus
- The humanity that draws us together: Anthony Shadid at TEDxOKC February 18, 2012Reporter Anthony Shadid died this week in Syria, in the midst of a distinguished career as a reporter in the Middle East, based in Beirut and Baghdad. In April 2011, he was a surprise speaker at TEDxOKC, in his hometown of Oklahoma City — where he shared his hopes for a reimagined Middle East. Read notes from this talk on Heather Braun’s blog […]Emily McManus
- Peek-a-boo!: Fellows Friday with Aparna Rao February 17, 2012Part of Bangalore-based art duo Pors & Rao, Aparna Rao (watch her TED Talk) embeds high-tech and humor in interactive, sculptural artworks that awaken us to our own subtle behavioral patterns and emotional responses. What’s your vision and motivation for making this art? I think it’s more a compulsion than a vision. It all started with The Un […]Karen Eng
- Happy birthday, TED Conversations February 16, 2012One year ago today, we launched our platform for long-form conversations: TED Conversations. Since that time the TED Conversation community has held 6,435 Conversations, on topics such as: How can computer models help us build intuition? Where do you use math in your profession? Can we ever know how another person “senses” the world? And about ed […]tedstaff
- “A world without love is a deadly place”: Celebrating Valentine’s Day with the launch of TED Quotes February 14, 2012Everyone loves a good quote. They challenge us. They change us. They make us think and make us laugh. They are — in their most compressed and contagious form — ideas. So today, we’re launching TED Quotes, a new initiative that collects memorable quotes from TEDTalks, groups them by category, and makes them as easy to share as our talks them […]junecohen
- Have you visited Inside Out Project lately? February 11, 2012Since the Inside Out Project launched last year at TED, more than 70,000 individual photos have been shot and pasted in almost 9,000 locations around the world, sharing a vision of individual identity for the world to see. To house this astonishing collection of portraits online from around the world, Inside Out recently revamped their website — inside […]tedstaff
- Watch Session 7 of TED2012 — free February 23, 2012
