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Day five of TED2016 contained one session filled with big ideas, but also an opportunity to look back at the conference as a whole. Below, the major themes that ran through the course of the week...

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-lessons-learned-through-the-course-of-ted2016/

In the final session of TED2016, the themes we’ve been talking about all week — the progress of society, the measure of personal success, the importance of the environment — snap into focus...

https://blog.ted.com/the-invigorating-talks-in-session-12-of-ted2016/

On the fourth day of TED2016, we heard powerful social justice talks and saw tech with big implications. Below, takeaways for you following along at home. All hail the prosecutor. There’s a new...

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-lessons-learned-from-the-fourth-day-of-ted2016/

This session is dedicated to those who weave fantasies and force change. From a speaker on the cusp of virtual reality storytelling to a playwright who appears as a hologram, many surprises are ...

https://blog.ted.com/the-wonder-filled-talk-in-session-11-of-ted2016/

We may, as Joan Didion once wrote, tell ourselves stories in order to live—but Uri Hasson is looking for a few more reasons. The neuroscientist based at Princeton University researches the neur...

https://blog.ted.com/what-happens-in-the-brain-when-we-hear-stories-uri-hasson-at-ted2016/

Host Gerry Garbulsky has a feeling that this may be the session with “the most heavy accents” in TED history. The organizer of TEDxRiodelaPlata in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Garbulsky curated ...

https://blog.ted.com/the-international-talks-in-session-10-of-ted2016/

The speakers in Session 9, “Outside the Box,” offer surprising perspectives. From a writer who’s a misfit in a true sense of the word to a District Attorney who asks if prosecuting is reall...

https://blog.ted.com/the-mind-shifting-talks-in-session-9-of-ted2016/

During day three of TED2016, we felt both wonder and terror. Below, some of the strongest messages cutting through a day of incredible talks. A swarm of autonomous robots, as magical as fireflie...

https://blog.ted.com/lessons-learned-during-the-third-day-of-ted2016/

Not every dream is good. Sometimes dreams terrify you to your core, and you wake up in a cold sweat confused to find yourself safe in bed. In Session 8, we turn our attention to “Nightmare?,”...

https://blog.ted.com/the-stuff-of-nightmares-crucial-talks-in-session-8-of-ted2016/

Something huge is coming, and it sounds like an ad for a bag of potato chips. CRISPR, which makes gene editing so cheap and easy a talented high schooler could do it, is the latest technology tha...

https://blog.ted.com/are-we-gods-now-jennifer-kahn-talks-crispr-at-ted2016/

“I was excited to be a part of the ‘Dream’ theme,” says Al Gore as he walks onto the TED2016 stage. “But then I found out I was leading off the nightmare section.” He admits that what...

https://blog.ted.com/why-al-gore-feels-optimistic-about-climate-change/

At the annual TED conference, the audience is as packed with big ideas as our speaker program. TED University is a chance for audience members to give short talks about both big ideas and persona...

https://blog.ted.com/the-audience-takes-the-stage-the-personal-talks-of-ted-university-at-ted2016/

It wouldn’t be a conference about dreams without an ode to John Lennon. In this session, we take a cue from his iconic lyric and imagine a world without borders. Get ready for talks on mega-ci...

https://blog.ted.com/the-global-trotting-talks-in-session-7-at-ted2016/

So much of our world is determined by code — be it the code of life or a string of 1s and 0s. In this session, “Code Power,” we hear from Linus Torvalds, who changed how code is writte...

https://blog.ted.com/the-power-of-code-the-tech-talks-in-session-6-of-ted2016/

At age 33, Reshma Saujani had a moment of bravery: Against all odds of winning, she ran for Congress. It was a serious long shot: People called her crazy, and said there was no way that she would...

https://blog.ted.com/you-dont-need-to-be-perfect-to-write-good-code-reshma-saujani-at-ted2016/

The second day of TED2016 brought wisdom for within and discoveries from without. Below, highlights for you following at home. Procrastination works … for some. Session 4 speakers Tim Urban and...

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-6-takeaways-from-the-second-day-of-ted2016/

Session 5 starts with a talk from a 93-year-old television icon. But it goes back so much further in time than that. As astronomer shares the mystery of a star’s light that dimmed 1,500 years ...

https://blog.ted.com/the-epic-talks-in-session-5-of-ted2016/

Pay attention. The talks in Session 4 offer takeaways you’ll find yourself using in everyday life — from a new way to end an argument, to how to talk about gravitational waves at a party, to...

https://blog.ted.com/the-helpful-talks-in-session-4-of-ted2016/

Session 3 of TED2016 examines the ‘i’ words: Imagination. Invention. Ingenuity. Hosted by TED Fellows Jedidah Isler and José Gómez-Márquez, this session is all about speakers who’ve take...

https://blog.ted.com/the-inspiring-talks-in-session-3-of-ted2016/

Patterns delight the mind and eye. And yet, they sometimes lead to us getting stuck — not just in behaviors, but in systems. The speakers in Session 2, “Radical Repatterning,” can see wha...

https://blog.ted.com/the-challenging-talks-in-session-2-of-ted2016/