TED is the subject of numerous articles from some of the most prestigious news outlets of the world, receiving coverage from The New York Times, Wired UK, The Guardian, BBC News, CNN, Nature, Al-Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal and more.
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Nightly News with Brian Williams
NBC
March 10, 2011
02:31
Math tutor’s viral videos go global. The Gates Foundation and Google recently donated $3.5 million dollars to help turn what started as one man’s effort to help one student in a global classroom.
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Interview with Chris Anderson
Charlie Rose
February 18, 2011
18:29
Charlie Rose interviews Chris Anderson.
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TED is a conference unlike any other - started in in California in 1984, its intended focus was Technology, Entertainment & Design, but with past speakers like Bill Clinton and Richard Dawkins, it has long moved on from that to cover every topic imaginable.
Al Jazeera »
July 9, 2011 -
TED Talks, the conference in which speakers get 20 minutes to share "ideas worth spreading," has always reminded me of a Shel Silverstein poem. "If you are a dreamer, come in/ If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer/ If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin/ Come in! Come in!"
The Washington Post »
March 10, 2011 -
Welcome to TED, where the world's great minds come to dream the impossible and show that it's happening. This week in Long Beach, Calif., the room gasped at the sight of something that could revolutionize medicine: organs created, in effect, as Xerox copies.
ABC News »
March 4, 2011
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It's the end of day three of the TED 2011 ideas festival in Long Beach, California, and we have seen things that look like they were created by Steven Spielberg, a CGI team, and several million pounds of special effects, but actually, it was just the future.
The Guardian »
March 4, 2011 -
Grouped under the theme "The Rediscovery of Wonder," speakers whose expertise ranged from the world of physics to the business of restaurants told an audience of nearly 2,000 about the ideas that animate their work. Many of them work at the leading edge of their fields, using their intelligence, massive computing technology and the wisdom of the crowd to ignite ideas that inspire wonder on many levels.
CNN »
March 3, 2011 -
“Part of this is really about starting a conversation about advertising,” said Ronda Carnegie, the head of global partnerships for TED, a conference organizer originally known as Tetchnology, Entertainment and Design. “Advertising is just not about selling you something. It really has to give you something back in order to reward the attention you give it.”
The New York Times »
March 2, 2011
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These are just a few of the more than 50 speakers and artists appearing at the invitation-only event, dubbed “Davos for the Digerati set.”
Wired »
February 28, 2011 -
[JR]’s M.O. is to show up in a shantytown in Kenya or a favela in Brazil, a place where some event has been noted in the media and captured his attention, and turn it inside out, photographing the residents, then wrapping their buildings with the results, on a scale so vast that you can see their eyes from the sky. Often he has worked at night, and as soon as he’s done, he disappears; so when the installation becomes front-page news, there is no one left to explain it but the people whose voices had not been previously heard.
New York Times »
February 24, 2011 -
By combining the principles of "radical openness" and of "leveraging the power of ideas to change the world," TED is in the process of creating something brand new. I would go so far as to argue that it's creating a new Harvard -- the first new top-prestige education brand in more than 100 years.
Fast Company »
September 1, 2010
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Oh why oh why have I been bingeing on TED talks again? I promised myself I would quit watching the ecstatic series of head-rush disquisitions, available online, from violinists, political prisoners, brain scientists, novelists and Bill Clinton. But I can't. Each hortatory TED talk starts with a bang and keeps banging till it explodes in fireworks. How can I shut it off? The speakers seem fevered, possessed, Pentecostal. No wonder I am, too, now.
The New York Times Magazine »
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