Through the looking glass: A recap of session 8 of TEDGlobal 2014
Wendy Freeman speaks at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED In this session, “Lenses,” speakers look through cameras and new lenses — at subjects from the very, very big to the very, very...
View ArticleCancer detection tech: Jorge Soto live at TEDGlobal 2014
Jorge Soto speaks at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED Cancer detection technologist Jorge Soto is developing a simple, non-invasive, open-source test for early detection of multiple...
View ArticleBasic needs: A sneak peek of session 9 at TEDGlobal 2014
In the grand scheme of things, food and water can go a long way. In this session we get back to basics, with talks about what’s in our food, how we grow it, and how we, err, dispose of it. The speakers...
View ArticleCook the recipe that chef Teresa Corção made on the TEDGlobal stage
A close-up of Trooper’s Beans, the manioc dish prepared during Teresa Corção’s talk. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED Manioc — otherwise known as yucca, cassava, mogo or tapioca — is a root that hails...
View ArticleFood, water and a few other basic needs: A recap of session 9 of TEDGlobal 2014
Sipho Moyo speaks at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED This session is all about “Basic Needs.” Enjoy these talks on food, innovation, sanitation and more. Sipho Moyo puts two images up...
View ArticleLateral Action: A sneak peek of session 10 at TEDGlobal 2014
Real solutions can emerge from places surprisingly adjacent to the problems they address. This session examines how progress — from villages to urban spaces, from the artist’s studio to the corporate...
View ArticleTEDGlobal: The Forest
We built a theater for TEDGlobal 2014 and, after the event closes, it will be taken down. And as Chris Anderson admitted at the end of session 9, this has many of us concerned about the environmental...
View ArticleSideways solutions and inverted explanations: A recap of session 10 of...
Juana Molina performs at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED The thinkers in this session, “Lateral Action,” don’t go about creating change in the usual ways. Here, their unexpected...
View ArticleEmbroidery for empowerment: A Q&A with Khalida Brohi that reveals much more...
Khalida Brohi speaks at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED Khalida Brohi grew up traveling between two very different parts of Pakistan: the bustling city of Karachi, where her parents...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: Day 3 of TEDGlobal 2014
Day 3 of TEDGlobal 2014 lifted our hearts and brought us new ideas worth spreading. Below, a few of today’s highlights… Global photographer Jimmy Nelson took us behind his lens. Then he asked the...
View ArticleFighters: A sneak peek of session 11 at TEDGlobal 2014
Where would we be without our fighters? This session pays tribute to the brave activists who are in the trenches working toward the things that matter. Making their impact through law, journalism and...
View ArticleVideo: Parent by parent, rebuilding trust in vaccination in Pakistan
Last year it was revealed that the CIA ran a fake vaccination campaign as cover to hunt for Bin Laden. And of course, here’s the tragic side effect: Now, Pakistan is facing a polio crisis from...
View ArticleOur laws belong to us: Kimberley Motley live at TEDGlobal 2014
Kimberley Motley speaks at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED Kimberley Motley is an impossible woman: The former Mrs. Wisconsin, whose father is African-American and mother is a North...
View ArticleQ&A: How we can stop the spread of Ebola
Chikwe Ihekweazu speaks at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: Ryan Lash/TED Ten years ago, epidemiologist Chikwe Ihekweazu helped fight an outbreak in South Sudan. This TED Fellow now runs the health consultancy...
View ArticleHuman rights heroes: A recap of session 11 of TEDGlobal 2014
Fred Swaniker speaks at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED From a speaker helping to contain the ebola outbreak to an America lawyer standing up for rights in Afghanistan to a journalist...
View ArticleMighty Spaces: A sneak peek of session 12 at TEDGlobal 2014
This session presents speakers who are at home in awe-inspiring places. These bold explorers come bearing discoveries from the tundra and the rainforest, from beneath the ocean’s surface, and even from...
View Article12 visions of Brazil, from 12 different creatives
To introduce the sessions of TEDGlobal 2014, curator Bruno Giussani had an idea: he asked 12 different creative teams to give 12 different visions of Brazil. Below, watch them all in rapid succession.
View ArticleFabien Cousteau’s underwater adventure, in GIFs
Fabien Cousteau speaks at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED Whenever Fabien Cousteau opened the door of his home during June, he met the neighbors: sharks and grouper. That’s because...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: Day 4 of TEDGlobal 2014
(L-R) Host Chris Anderson speaks with Chikwe Ihekweazu at TEDGlobal 2014. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED TEDGlobal 2014 has wrapped up — here, some highlights from the last day of the conference....
View ArticlePhotos to close out TEDGlobal 2014
Bold, moving, challenging: TEDGlobal 2014 has just wrapped. Browse photos from the final two days of the conference, which headed South this year to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The TEDGlobal 2014 theater...
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