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Countdown is a global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. Watch the talks, interviews and performances from the Countdown Global Launch at ted.com/countdown. The world aroun...

https://blog.ted.com/breakthroughs-notes-from-session-4-of-the-countdown-global-launch/

Launching on Monday, May 18, TED’s new podcast TEDx SHORTS gives listeners a quick and meaningful taste of curiosity, skepticism, inspiration and action drawn from TEDx Talks. In less than 10 m...

https://blog.ted.com/tedx-shorts-a-new-ted-original-podcast-hosted-by-actress-atossa-leoni-premieres-may-18/

The spirit of the TEDx community shone brightly during the first TEDxGlobalDay in September. In this dynamic one-day initiative, more than 5,000 TEDxers from 230 cities in 76 countries set out to...

https://blog.ted.com/8-ways-tedxers-gave-back-on-tedxglobalday/

Ideas never sleep — and neither does the TEDx archive.  Since going online in 2009, the archive has amassed thousands of perspective-shifting talks from across the world — and we’ve just r...

https://blog.ted.com/achievement-unlocked-tedx-celebrates-100000-talks/

During the International Beer Exchange held on Day 2 of TEDFest, a screening event for TEDx’ers in New York City, bottles were lined up side by side like passengers on the subway during morning...

https://blog.ted.com/a-beer-exchange-that-spanned-the-globe/

First, watch this wonderful new promo for TED’s mobile app — a wander through five countries and communities, linked by a love for great ideas. TED’s filmmakers asked the help of five TEDx ...

https://blog.ted.com/video-watch-how-five-tedx-organizers-share-an-idea-around-the-world/

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/

You probably watch TED Talks on an assortment of small screens. But next week, you’re invited to experience them on the big screen. As the TED2017 conference takes place in Vancouver, Canada, s...

https://blog.ted.com/experience-the-ted2017-conference-in-movie-theaters/

Adriana Eguia Alaniz started her talk in the United States, speaking English. She ended it in Mexico, speaking Spanish. Welcome to TEDxMonumento258, an event held across the US-Mexico border. On ...

https://blog.ted.com/a-tedx-event-crosses-the-us-mexico-border-to-show-that-ideas-cant-be-fenced-in/

Ayana Ishiyama always thought she wanted to be a journalist. Two years ago, when she left her hometown in northern Japan to study abroad in the US, she signed up for journalism courses and wrote ...

https://blog.ted.com/how-tedxsapporo-translators-work-together-to-find-the-perfect-word/

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/

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/

Camille Martinez is a native English speaker who’s fluent in Spanish. In her career, she’s run a language school, worked in medical translation and interpreting, and even started a translatio...

https://blog.ted.com/meet-camille-our-english-transcript-coordinator/

This morning, Chris Anderson announced that Rony Abovitz of the start-up Magic Leap, who’d planned to join us here at TED2015, has cancelled his appearance for, as Chris says, “Reasons unknow...

https://blog.ted.com/a-mysterious-message-in-a-tedx-talk/

At the century-old Hotel Metropol in central Moscow, the attendees of TEDxMoscow received a surprising call from a speaker 268 miles away. Not 268 miles to the east or west — but 268 miles abov...

https://blog.ted.com/at-the-first-tedxmoscow-a-program-that-points-toward-possibility/

There aren’t many places on earth more mythical than the Galápagos Islands, the archipelago that sparked Charles Darwin to form his theory of evolution almost two centuries ago. Protected as a...

https://blog.ted.com/tedxgalapagos-tells-the-story-of-galapagos-humans/

When TED asked Hannah Fry to write a book on the mathematics of finding true love, Fry happened to be — of all places — on her honeymoon. “ have been together for a really long time, so the...

https://blog.ted.com/the-math-of-love-from-a-tedx-speaker-who-loves-math/

“What makes you think that you have 80 or 90 years to live?” Laura Rozo posed this serious and almost morbid question to the audience at TEDxUNC in February 2013. She walked onto the stage co...

https://blog.ted.com/how-a-tedx-community-supported-a-speaker-through-the-unthinkable/

By the TEDxYPU team In March, the ongoing conflict in Syria will enter its fifth year. Syrians have lost so much in that time — the Syrian who has not lost their life has lost several years of...

https://blog.ted.com/university-students-explain-why-theyre-organizing-a-tedx-on-their-campus-in-syria/