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“If you’re a teen, you’ve been called apathetic, narcissistic and social-media obsessed,” said Taylor Trudon, the youth editor at Huffington Post. Standing tall in a crisp white blazer, t...

https://blog.ted.com/at-tedxteen-a-gathering-of-young-minds-in-new-york-city/

As Randy Bretz neared the end of his long career in TV and radio production, he knew the traditional retirement agenda wasn’t for him. “I don’t golf, and I don’t fish,” he said via Skyp...

https://blog.ted.com/retired-tedx-organizers-make-meaningful-connections/

“It is great to be back in Mississippi — yes it is,” said Kermit the Frog on the TEDxJackson stage in 2014. “I have deep roots here.” The Muppet was alluding to the fact that his creato...

https://blog.ted.com/tedx-takes-shape-in-the-south/

On the day he was released from his cell, Vincent Cochetel sported a beard “that would be trendy today.” It was not a fashion decision. In 1998, Cochetel, the director of the Bureau for Europ...

https://blog.ted.com/at-tedxplacedesnations-talks-from-those-who-dedicate-their-lives-to-the-global-good/

By Jenny Groza Habana, Cuba, which was called “the rich man’s playground” before World War II, now evokes an air of mystery—a giant question mark. Are there still midcentury cars roaming ...

https://blog.ted.com/the-first-tedx-in-cuba/

In October, ten thousand people sat in the stands of Argentina’s largest indoor event space, Tecnópolis, bracing themselves for the moment when the stage lights would turn on. They weren’t w...

https://blog.ted.com/a-10000-person-tedx-event-unfolds-in-buenos-aires/

The Open Translation Project has a global family of over 18,000 volunteers. But for the Dekkers — living in Sde Warburg, Israel — the OTP family isn’t a figure of speech. They’ve made tra...

https://blog.ted.com/meet-the-family-thats-translated-2000-talks/

It’s not every day that you see a desert cyclist, a Tanbour virtuoso, a Persian literature professor and a health systems expert in the same room together. But at the second TEDxTehran, held in...

https://blog.ted.com/how-a-model-of-mentorship-is-helping-tedx-grow-throughout-iran/

Two guys, a giant red X and an extremely unreliable compact car on a journey from London to Ulaanbaatar. Sounds like an ideal vacation, right? For Nate Mook — organizer of TEDxMidAtlantic, TEDx...

https://blog.ted.com/two-guys-and-an-x-a-road-trip-to-visit-32-tedxers/

In Northern Canada, near the Beaufort Sea, sits a tiny hamlet with a population of less than 700, consisting of mostly Aboriginal people. It is where 80-year-olds ride their snowmobiles to buy mi...

https://blog.ted.com/tedx-in-the-arctic-circle/

Bhilwara is a city in Rajasthan, India, famous for its textile industry. Textiles dominate the local economy; after agriculture, it’s the leading employer in the city. The city is populated wit...

https://blog.ted.com/how-a-tedx-event-spun-up-in-bhilwara/

Lon Hodge and his labradoodle, Gander, are at a McDonald’s near the Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois, a quick stop for a bite as they travel across the United States. “He never leaves my...

https://blog.ted.com/the-veteran-and-the-labradoodle/

If you were to map out all 10 TEDx events that Felipe Spath has organized, you’d have a constellation of waypoints zigzagging through Colombia’s countryside—passing farms, mountains, lakes,...

https://blog.ted.com/how-tedx-is-spreading-through-rural-colombia/

TEDx organizer Seema Raman has held three events in the past year, and traveled from her home in Bangalore to the snowy mountains of British Columbia to learn more about putting on great events. ...

https://blog.ted.com/seema-raman-of-tedxpesitbsc-kickstarts-community-at-her-college-and-beyond/

If you happened upon a small park in Nasiriyah, Iraq, last June 28, you would have noticed a group of 15 people, fast asleep, with blue hard hats and orange vests nearby. This group was not homel...

https://blog.ted.com/iraq-builders-celebrates-one-year-of-repairing-homes-in-baghdad/