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After two days of TEDWomen 2015,  the jaw-dropping, standing-O moments are still hanging in the air — smart, sad and funny insights on things we don’t often say out loud … “I am a ba...

https://blog.ted.com/21-amazing-quotes-from-tedwomen-2015/

On her first day as a principal in a North Philadelphia school, Linda Cliatt-Wayman was determined to lay down the law and set clear expectations. She called her students into the auditorium and...

https://blog.ted.com/when-a-school-is-not-a-school-linda-cliatt-wayman-at-tedwomen-2015/

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/

The most important rule in our safety briefing on the “Bobsleigh Sport Experience”: Put your gloves on, hold on to the wire inside the sled walls, and DO NOT LET GO.

https://blog.ted.com/bobsledding-our-way-to-glory-at-tedactive-2015/

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/

TEDGlobal 2014 has wrapped up — here, some highlights from the last day of the conference. Onstage and online, it’s been a busy and fantastic Friday. Word spreads of Malala Yousafzai’s ...

https://blog.ted.com/in-case-you-missed-it-day-4-of-tedglobal-2014/

This session presents speakers who are at home in awe-inspiring places. These bold explorers come bearing discoveries from the tundra and the rainforest, from beneath the ocean’s surface, and e...

https://blog.ted.com/mighty-spaces-a-sneak-peek-of-session-12-at-tedglobal-2014/

Where would we be without our fighters? This session pays tribute to the brave activists who are in the trenches working toward the things that matter. Making their impact through law, journal...

https://blog.ted.com/fighters-a-sneak-peek-of-session-11-at-tedglobal-2014/

Real solutions can emerge from places surprisingly adjacent to the problems they address. This session examines how progress — from villages to urban spaces, from the artist’s studio to the...

https://blog.ted.com/lateral-action-a-sneak-peek-of-session-10-at-tedglobal-2014/

Twelve years ago, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho gave up her career as an investment banker to become a civil society diplomat. She wanted to create change in her native Brazil by focusing on two ve...

https://blog.ted.com/4-lessons-from-brazilian-gun-and-drug-policy-ilona-szabo-de-carvalho-at-tedglobal-2014/

Chief Tashka of the Yawanawá, an indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest, opens with a song, as is traditional of his people’s gatherings. He then begins to tell the story of Brazil’s ind...

https://blog.ted.com/the-rainforest-is-for-every-human-being-tashka-yawanawa-at-tedglobal-2014/

There are 365 days in a year. So it feels like a telling coincidence that the organizers of both TEDxCapeTown and TEDxJohannesburg—independently organized events in two of the biggest, busiest ...

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

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/

Bionics designer Hugh Herr spoke today on the TED stage about a future in which disability is a mere memory – a future he believes is both imminent and imperative. With pant legs cropped to rev...

https://blog.ted.com/youve-given-me-my-body-back-a-qa-with-hugh-herr/

Last week on TED.com, origami-folding techniques transformed a 50-cent piece of paper into a fully functioning microscope, human DNA came tumbling out of a vending machine, and we got a look at h...

https://blog.ted.com/apply-to-be-a-2014-tedglobal-fellow/

“The political and the sexual are intimate bedfellows,” says Shereen El Feki in yesterday’s talk. “That is true for all of us, no matter where we live and love.” For five years, El Feki...

http://ideas.ted.com/2014/01/22/a-different-kind-of-sex-change-see-how-quickly-a-society-can-shift-its-sexual-attitudes/

When 12-year-old Peyton Robertson sees a problem, he is going to fix it. So when the young scientist noticed a perennial problem in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida –flooding during the...

http://ideas.ted.com/this-scientist-has-three-patents-pending-he-also-happens-to-be-12/

In 2007, Mayor Mick Cornett put Oklahoma City on a diet, after the city made a less-than-flattering appearance on a list of the most obese cities in the United States. In today’s talk, Cornett ...

https://blog.ted.com/the-gamification-of-weight-loss/

Sally Kohn had a point to make in her TED Talk. During her career as a progressive lesbian talking head at Fox News, she’d get letters from people who really, really didn’t like what she said...

https://blog.ted.com/sally-kohns-talk-the-clean-version/

Last week, the editors of Time magazine published a list of 30 people under 30 who are changing the world, with the help of a panel of millennials. On the list: six teenagers and twenty-something...

https://blog.ted.com/times-30-under-30-list-and-ted/