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TED2019 may be past, but the TED community is busy as ever. Below, a few highlights. Amplifying 2 million women across the U.S. Activist Ai-jen Poo, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza and...

https://blog.ted.com/a-new-mission-to-mobilize-2-million-women-in-us-politics-and-more-ted-news/

Harry Marks’ career happened at the intersection of typography, technology and television. His vision has influenced the look of modern video — picture those fluidly moving, 3D letters that f...

https://blog.ted.com/remembering-harry-marks-co-founder-of-the-ted-conference/

Twelve mainstage sessions, two rocking sessions of talks from TED Fellows, a special session of TED Unplugged, a live podcast recording and much more amounted to an unforgettable week at TED2019.

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-highlights-from-ted2019/

Day 4 of TED2019 played on some of the more powerful forces in the world: mystery, play, connection, wonder and awe.

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-highlights-from-day-4-of-ted2019/

“You have to start with an interesting question,” says neuroscientist Beau Lotto. We’re talking over Skype with collaborator Geneviève Laurendeau, the corporate PR manager at Cirque du Sol...

https://blog.ted.com/co-creating-an-experiential-experiment-to-measure-awe/

To kick off day 4 of TED2019, we give you (many more) reasons to get a good night’s sleep, plunge into the massive microbiome in the Earth’s crust — and much, more more. The event: Talks fr...

https://blog.ted.com/mystery-notes-from-session-8-of-ted2019/

“I don’t think I’m qualified to speak my own mind,” says Australian comic Hannah Gadsby. “I’m not so good at turning the thinking into the talking. And you’re wondering how someone ...

https://blog.ted.com/how-hannah-gadsby-broke-comedy/

To close out day 3 of TED2019, we imagine different versions of the future — from the magical possibilities of deep-sea exploration to the dark future of humanity if something goes horribly wro...

https://blog.ted.com/possibility-notes-from-session-7-of-ted2019/

You’ve walked into a cavernous, darkened concrete space. There, centered on the floor, looking a bit like an alien lander, is a glowing plastic multi-domed structure filled with swirling mist a...

https://blog.ted.com/pollution-pods-a-tasting-menu-of-our-planets-air-quality-at-ted2019/

Here's what happened on Tuesday of TED2019.

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-highlights-from-day-2-of-ted2019/

“That’s what’s so extraordinary about life: It’s a cycle of generation, degeneration, regeneration.” The humorist Emily Levine has died, after an extraordinary life spent questioning th...

https://blog.ted.com/remembering-emily-levine/

What’s an appropriate second act after co-founding Microsoft? When Paul Allen left the massive software company, sure, he bought a sports team or two, founded a museum, funded schools and a tel...

https://blog.ted.com/remembering-paul-allen/

More than 100 speakers — activists, scientists, adventurers, change-makers and more — took the stage to give the talk of their lives this week in Vancouver at TED2018. One blog post could nev...

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-the-dawn-of-the-age-of-amazement-at-ted2018/

Three sessions of memorable TED Talks covering life, death and the future of humanity made the penultimate day of TED2018 a remarkable space for tech breakthroughs and dispatches from the edges o...

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-bold-visions-for-humanity-at-day-4-of-ted2018/

Back in 2014, Will Marshall took the TED stage to introduce us to his company, Planet, and their proposed fleet of tiny satellites. The goal: to image the planet every day, showing us how Earth c...

https://blog.ted.com/announced-at-ted2018-explore-satellite-images-with-planet-stories/

The seven speakers lived up to the two words in the title of the session. Their talks showcased both our collective insanity — the algorithmically-assembled extremes of the Internet — and our...

https://blog.ted.com/insanity-humanity-notes-from-session-8-at-ted2018/

Three stellar main stage sessions of talks — including the launch of the Audacious Project — plus workshops, exhibits and TED Unplugged, a session of talks given by audience members, made for...

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-an-audacious-day-2-at-ted2018/

For the Session 3 of the conference, TED Head of Curation Helen Walters says, “We’re throwing off all pretense of cool.” Seven speakers are queued up to discuss the latest advances in their...

https://blog.ted.com/nerdish-delight-notes-from-session-3-of-ted2018/

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, says TED Curator Chris Anderson as he opens Session 2, “we used to think that democratically-powered capitalism was supposed to take over the world.” P...

https://blog.ted.com/after-the-end-of-history-notes-from-session-2-of-ted2018/

TED2018, themed “The Age of Amazement,” kicked off Tuesday with two eye-opening sessions of talks from this year’s TED Fellows — with tech and science demos, music, dance and comedy — a...

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-exploring-the-amazing-in-every-sense-of-the-word-at-day-1-of-ted2018/