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Culture
Crowdsourced Public Art Project Captures Community Spirit Around the World
Street-artist JR extends his reach even further through crowdsourcing, engaging a global audience like never before.
Technology
TED's Chris Anderson Proposes New Rules for Email
Do you feel like you're barely keeping your head above water as the tide of emails in your inbox rises? Follow these ten rules.
Environment
Q&A: Cesar Harada on the Promise of an Oil Skimming Robot
The engineer on robot drones, the drawbacks of cutting-edge nanotechnology, and the merits of open-source inventions.
News
Big Ideas from TED 2011: Attendees Weigh in on the New Middle East
From messages of bountiful optimism to warnings about the work let to come, what the TEDsters most intimately familiar with the Middle East think.
Business
Big Ideas from TED 2011: TED Highlights the Boundary-Pushing Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow
No innovator is an island unto themselves; all entrepreneurs and innovators have supporters behind the scenes, helping them succeed. This year...
Lifestyle
The Coffee Boosters: A Conversation with Sean Bonner of Coffee Common
Your daily brew just got a lot more amazing thanks to this new collaborative awareness campaign, launched at TED last week.
Culture
TED Prize-Winning Artist JR: Why He's Putting Your Face All Over the World
The TED prize-winning artist JR on re-imagining your presence all over the world.
Environment
Protei: An Open Source Fleet of Oil Spill Cleaning Robot Drones
Move over, Kevin Costner. There's a new oil spill cleaning robot in town. And this one is being developed for purpose, not profit.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: Video Tour of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Truck
Jamie Oliver has unveiled his brand-new Food Revolution truck, complete with 8 kitchen stations and an inflatable stage.
Design
JR's Global Street Art TED Wish: Your Face, Anywhere
The TED Wish of the street artist allows anyone to send in a portrait and receive a poster of themselves to post in a public space.
Education
What Can TED Do For Education Reform?
TEDActive, the action-oriented arm of the renowned conference-turned-movement, wants to catalyze a student-led education reform revolution.
Cities
Forget Twitter, Try Stickers: Low-Tech Project Inspires Community Engagement in New Orleans
Candy Chang's civic engagement project has captured plenty of hearts and minds with the use of decidedly low-tech stickers and Sharpies.
Environment
Fate of the World: The Video Game That Lets You Solve Global Warming
Watch the trailer for and order the much-anticipated video game that challenges you to solve climate change.
Design
The TED Prize-Winning Street Artist JR Blankets L.A. with Work
JR, the French street artist and upcoming TED Prize recipient, has finally brought his excellent Wrinkles of the City project to L.A.
Lifestyle
Tables to Change the World: An Interview with Michael Hebb
Michael Hebb tells us how he plans to use the table—our most important cultural site—to create a vision of the food system we want in 2040.
Education
Solving the Creativity Crisis: The "No Right Brain Left Behind" Challenge
The brightest creative minds from American industry are gathering to make sure schools teach conceptual, big-picture thinking.
Culture
Winner Announced: Build Your Own TEDxChange
Muhammad Yunus, Michelle Rhee, Pierre Ferrari, and Anders Wilhelmson, plus a performance by the Arcade Fire. That's part of the winning lineup.
Education
TED's "Ideas Worth Spreading" Are Heading to E-Books
Get your mind blown all over again—this time by text. Select TED talks will now be available as concise, 20,000-word e-books.
