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The world lost one of its literary giants today. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at the age 82. For Nigerians, Achebe was a national treasure. He was the first African writer to attract in...

https://blog.ted.com/chinua-achebe-some-reflections/

"I have the feeling that, by making it more and more ubiquitous, It's going to be pretty hard to shut it down." Vint Cerf helped design the Internet 40 years ago. Does he think it's in danger now...

https://blog.ted.com/vint-cerf-actually-the-internets-going-to-be-just-fine/

Everyone 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 launch...

https://blog.ted.com/a-world-without-love-is-a-deadly-place-celebrating-valentines-day-with-the-launch-of-ted-quotes/

On June 27, 2006, we flipped the switch on TED Talks, bringing talks from TED to the world for the first time. It was early days for online video — YouTube was just a year old; the video iPod h...

https://blog.ted.com/tedtalks-5-years-and-500-million-served/

Our announcement last week of TEDWomen has touched off some really vibrant conversations online. Some have embraced the idea; others have reservations. At TED, we’ve been reading with interest ...

https://blog.ted.com/tedwomen_join_t/

At TED2010, Chef Dan Barber drew a standing ovation with his unlikely love story about fish: sustainably farmed, outrageously delicious fish, which offers a model for the future of food productio...

https://blog.ted.com/qa_with_chef_da/

In the weeks before TED — amid frenetic preparations for the conference — I always steal a few calm moments, surrounded by stacks of books by this year’s speakers. It’s one of my favorite...

https://blog.ted.com/preted2010_read/

At TED2009, Stanford Professor and virus hunter Nathan Wolfe explained that most human diseases — AIDS, SARS, swine flu — originally came from animals. Today, Wolfe and his team announced an ...

https://blog.ted.com/new_insight_on/

“Imagine if we could combine the power of a global ethic with our new power to communicate and organize globally.” – UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown “Next time you see someone in a Ferrari...

https://blog.ted.com/tedglobal_day_1/

The second year of the World Science Festival got off to a spectacular start last night at New York’s Lincoln Center, with a program star-studded from both science and the arts. We loved it her...

https://blog.ted.com/science_and_art/

Swine flu has made this a busy week for virus hunter Nathan Wolfe, who spoke at TED2009 about preventing the next pandemic. His groundbreaking Global Viral Forecasting Initiative (supported by gr...

https://blog.ted.com/qa_with_virus_h/

Last week at TED2009, we unveiled the next phase of TED.com, which will bring TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world. The new features — slated to launch next month — will bring subtitles...

https://blog.ted.com/unveiling_teds/

The winner receives $1, and more important — a wish to change something in the office. They were encouraged to think big (but cheap). Our amazing video team took time out from the Big Re-Upload...

https://blog.ted.com/announcing_the_1/

If you’ve seen Wade Davis’s unforgettable 2004 TED Talk — where he evokes the magic of the world’s cultural diversity, and speaks so eloquently about the alarming rate with which cultures...

https://blog.ted.com/unbelievable_ph/

Today we’re throwing open the door to our back archive, beginning with Nicholas Negroponte’s talk from TED 1. Yes, TED 1. 1984. TED’s co-founders, Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks, had...

https://blog.ted.com/opening_the_ted/

Photos: Andrew Heavens “Imagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’” – Boston Philharmonic conductor Ben Zander, on the importa...

https://blog.ted.com/ted2008_days_3/

“There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.” – Physicist and TED Prize winner Neil Turok “I have the modest goals of replaci...

https://blog.ted.com/ted2008_day_2_i/

“Who are we? We’re just an upright, walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape. ” – Paleontologist Louise Leakey “The first thing we do when we’re born is we breathe in, and we cry. ...

https://blog.ted.com/ted2008_the_day/

Last night in New York City, 250 TEDsters gathered to hear some radical proposals for outsmarting climate change. It’s a fact: Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising, and with them the po...

https://blog.ted.com/notes_from_the/

Last spring, singer-songwriter Stew (whose playful, provocative performance was a highlight of TED2006) rewrote the book on musicals with “Passing Strange,” a groundbreaking show that won rav...

https://blog.ted.com/one_night_only/