TED Blog » Hailey Reissman

This week, TEDx has transformed St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn into a giant TED2017 watch party. This is TEDFest, a week for TEDx’ers to meet, share tips and tricks, and take in big ideas on...

https://blog.ted.com/tedfest-brings-500-tedx-organizers-under-one-roof/

Alice Miller was born in a body that didn’t feel like hers. Every day, Yee Won Chong has to debate whether to use the men’s restroom or the women’s. Geena Rocero found success as a fashion ...

https://blog.ted.com/7-talks-on-the-transgender-experience/

Alexandre Farto spends his days creating towering works on the buildings of Lisbon and London — portraits of people that mirror urban decay, dissolving into scratches and splatters. Their stret...

https://blog.ted.com/street-artists-from-around-the-world-brought-together-virtually/

The TEDx community lost a beloved member this week. Giorgio Ungania, organizer and curator of TEDxDubai, passed away on Sunday at age 46. Giorgio was a force of life and an instrumental leader i...

https://blog.ted.com/remembering-giorgio-ungania-the-organizer-of-tedxdubai/

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/

Twitter was ablaze yesterday with some interesting news: Kermit the Frog had just become the first frog (albeit puppet) to give a TEDx Talk. On Thursday afternoon, the green superstar hopped on o...

https://blog.ted.com/kermit-the-frog-gives-a-tedx-talk/

Talks on science, space and dung beetles. Talks on philosophy, medicine and folding paper towels. Every day, all over the globe, TEDx organizers are tirelessly working to find inventive, ingeniou...

https://blog.ted.com/8-smart-strategies-tedx-organizers-use-to-find-great-speakers/

In the days before their event in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the team at TEDxChiangMai spent a large chunk of their time collecting stuff. All kinds of stuff — the quirky, the old, the new, the unw...

https://blog.ted.com/art-and-connections-in-chiang-mai-thailand/

Wednesday marked the second-ever TEDxCERN, the event organized by the folks at CERN, the famed particle physics research center in Geneva, Switzerland, responsible for bringing us the World Wide ...

https://blog.ted.com/7-things-learned-from-a-day-spent-watching-tedxcern/

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/

On September 24, TEDxCERN was hosted by physicist Brian Cox (watch his TED Talk: “CERN’s supercollider“), and the world was welcomed to watch for free. Below, an appetite-whetter that or...

https://blog.ted.com/tedxcern-and-ted-ed-team-up-for-lesson-on-cosmic-rays/

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/

This week, we’ve launched a new blog: TEDx Innovations. It’s a space for TEDx organizers to share their passion and ingenuity, to reveal the things they’re trying at their events and the ...

https://blog.ted.com/fun-and-nerdy-field-trips-tedx-adventures-take-to-the-streets/

Shai Reshef believes higher education is a right, not a privilege. In January 2009, he founded University of the People, a nonprofit, tuition-free, online university dedicated to opening up highe...

https://blog.ted.com/tuition-free-education-for-the-world-shai-reshef-at-ted2014/

The Raspyni Brothers are a delightfully irreverent pair who also happen to be world-class jugglers. At TED2014, they riff on Einstein’s dancing skills, reality TV and texting — all while jugg...

https://blog.ted.com/the-worlds-best-jugglers-at-ted-raspyni-brothers-at-ted2014/

On October 25, 2013, adventurer Ben Saunders and his teammate Tarka L’Herpiniere set out to complete Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s failed 1912 polar expedition — a four-month, 1,800-mile jo...

https://blog.ted.com/the-hardest-105-days-of-my-life-ben-saunders-at-ted2014/

Louie Schwartzberg is fascinated with exposing the world’s wonders through photography.  Three years ago, his talk, “Nature. Beauty. Gratitude,” demonstrated his uncanny ability to capture...

https://blog.ted.com/mysteries-of-the-unseen-world-louie-schwartzberg-at-ted2014/

Cartoonist (and former NASA roboticist) Randall Munroe illustrates the questions that keep you (or at least him) up at night. Whether that’s “What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball ...

https://blog.ted.com/using-serious-math-to-answer-weird-questions-randall-munroe-at-ted2014/

As a child, Seth Godin played the clarinet. Or — he tried .. sort of. At TED2014, he explains how he trudged through lessons, never trying hard enough to produce a note that sounded like the on...

https://blog.ted.com/everything-ive-learned-i-learned-from-clarinet-practice-seth-godin-at-ted2014/

In 2010, the late security researcher — or as cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari would like you to call him, the late hacker — Barnaby Jack found a security flaw in two different models of au...

https://blog.ted.com/some-hackers-are-bad-but-a-lot-are-good-keren-elazari-at-ted2014/