TED Blog » Karen Eng

Barreling through the high-visibility, high-tech exhibits on the TED2019 circuit, you’d be forgiven for mistaking The Data Garden for just another chillout zone, with its oasis of potted housep...

https://blog.ted.com/the-secret-life-of-plant-music/

The event: An afternoon session of talks and performances from TED Fellows, hosted by TED Fellows director Shoham Arad and TED Senior Fellow Jedidah Isler. When and where: Monday, April 15, 201...

https://blog.ted.com/looking-at-stars-notes-from-session-2-of-ted2019-fellows-talks/

The event: Talks and performances from TED Fellows, celebrating the 10th anniversary of this life-changing, world-changing program. Session 1 is hosted by TED Fellows director Shoham Arad and TED...

https://blog.ted.com/one-with-each-other-notes-from-session-1-of-ted2019-fellows-talks/

On the morning of TED2017’s first day, our TED Fellows continue to blow minds in session 2 of the TED Fellows Talks — including a science demo featuring carnivorous plants, some gorgeous cult...

https://blog.ted.com/who-wins-evolution-ted-fellows-speak-at-ted2017/

This morning, we kick off TED2017 in the new Community Theater with a program of fresh ideas, music and dance from the TED2017 Fellows and Senior Fellows. These Fellows are change-makers from ...

https://blog.ted.com/imagine-the-future-of-ourselves-notes-from-ted-fellows-session-1-at-ted2017/

It’s never easy to push against the current, to experiment with what’s never been done before, challenge uncomfortable truths. But 400 TED Fellows do it every day, all around the world. In th...

https://blog.ted.com/a-gorgeous-new-digital-book-celebrates-the-ted-fellows/

Camp: a home under the stars and sun. A space to dream, commune with friends, create — and play. That’s the atmosphere TED Fellows director Tom Rielly wanted to create for this year’s TED F...

https://blog.ted.com/how-i-designed-the-colorful-campy-ted-fellows-retreat/

Artist eL Seed fuses the beauty of Arabic letters with the modern art of graffiti — an art form he calls calligraffiti. He paints colorful, undulating messages of hope and peace on buildings al...

https://blog.ted.com/el-seed-uses-calligraffiti-to-transcend-language/

Greg Gage is a reliable source of both shock and awe at TED. Onstage over the years, this TED Fellow has demonstrated his low-cost DIY teaching kits by amputating a cockroach leg to show ho...

https://blog.ted.com/the-neuro-revolution-is-coming-greg-gages-neuroscience-kits-put-research-in-the-hands-of-the-curious/

Aomawa Shields is a woman of “contradictions.” An astronomer and astrobiologist, she searches for exoplanets where life might exist by using computer models to calculate the kind of atmosp...

https://blog.ted.com/ted-fellow-aomawa-shields-looks-for-life-on-other-planets-and-inspires-young-scientists-through-the-arts/

Like many kids, German-Moroccan paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim nursed a fascination for dinosaurs from a young age. The difference is, he grew up and actually found one. Ibrahim vividly remembers l...

https://blog.ted.com/the-dinosaur-hunter-ted-fellow-nizar-ibrahim-searches-for-lost-worlds/

For decades, the farmers of East Africa have battled the African whitefly, a tiny insect that infests the cassava crop. Cassava, also called manioc, arrowroot or tapioca, is an important fo...

https://blog.ted.com/how-a-ted-fellow-is-working-to-save-african-cassava/

Did you know that bacteria can be programmed as though they were computers? Bioengineer and artist Tal Danino is working out how to instruct bacteria to enter cancerous tumors — where it can ...

https://blog.ted.com/ted-fellow-tal-danino-programs-bacteria-to-detect-and-treat-cancer-and-make-art/

In agricultural entrepreneur Trang Tran’s native Vietnam, farmers traditionally burn the straw and husks that remain after the rice harvest. This practice happens at least twice a year for two ...

https://blog.ted.com/straw-into-gold-a-ted-fellow-cultivates-mushrooms-to-fight-climate-change/

For the 50,000 people of the Faroe Islands, a self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark, hunting long-finned pilot whales — a dark gray species found in their waters — is a traditi...

https://blog.ted.com/a-ted-fellows-documentary-on-whale-hunting-in-the-faroe-islands/

Cockroaches. Moldy walls. Stolen deposits. Bad landlords happen to all of us, and it can be impossible to tell before moving into a property whether the experience will be a good one, especial...

https://blog.ted.com/how-ted-fellow-yale-fox-is-holding-new-york-city-landlords-accountable/

The TED Fellows are an extraordinary group of 368 people — artists, scientists, entrepreneurs and more — each at the beginning of a landmark career, and each with a story to tell, a truly uni...

https://blog.ted.com/announcing-our-new-ted-fellows-channel-on-medium-com/

https://blog.ted.com/signs-of-friendship-a-conversation-between-christine-sun-kim-renee-hlozek/

In Session 2 of the TED Fellows talks, we learn about the FBI’s use of informants in counterterrorism operations, how giant pouched rats are helping to save lives, laser-delivered HIV drugs, h...

https://blog.ted.com/giant-pouched-rats-baby-corals-the-fbi-a-recap-of-tedfellows-session-2-at-ted2015/

TED Fellows and Senior Fellows have just opened TED2015 with a bang in the beautiful Kay Meek theatre in Vancouver. In the first session, discover: how bacteria can be programmed to detect and ...

https://blog.ted.com/on-blazars-quantum-computers-and-looking-for-life-on-mars-a-recap-of-tedfellows-session-1-at-ted2015/