February 2012
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TEDxHouston Q & A: The journey of a TEDTalk
Brené Brown spoke at TEDxHouston 2010, and her talk on the power of vulnerability made it to TED.com and now has over 3 million views.
She’s now speaking at TED 2012, closing the conference, and we connected with Javier Fadul of TEDxHouston on his event’s journey with Brené and his thoughts on her closing talk.
How did Brené Brown come to speak at your event?
We were very lucky...
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TEDx at TEDActive Experiences #4: First...
Abhishek Suryawanshi is the organizer of TEDxPune in India. This is his experience from Tuesday, February 28th at TEDActive.
When two people come together and share ideas, something new generates. And that’s what happened on larger scale at TEDActive 2012: 250 TEDx Organizers from 41 countries, 30+ TEDTranslators and 500+ TEDsters met each other to share ideas and to learn from the ideas...
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TEDx at TEDActive Experiences #3: Letting ideas...
Alex Middleton is the Organizer of TEDxYYC in Calgary, Canada. This is his experience from Monday, February 27th on the TEDx tour of TED at Long Beach.
6AM came pretty early Monday morning, especially when my alarm didn’t go off as scheduled, and I had to race to the Riviera from my rental house a few blocks away.
One scooter mishap later I arrived in time to throw a handful of food into a...
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TEDx Day in the Desert: Brainstorms
After presentations by TED staff and fellow Organizers, everyone dispersed to nine stations for brainstorming sessions on speaker training, PR and social media, university events, youth events, storytelling, sponsorships and more.
After two topic sessions, Organizers broke out into regional groups — Latin America, USA, Canada, Europe, Africa/Middle East and Asia/Australia/New...
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TEDx Day in the Desert: Knowledge Sharing
On Sunday, February 26th, 250 TEDx event organizers arrived at the Living Desert in Palm Springs for a full day of learning, brainstorming and, of course, fun!
TEDx Director Lara Stein kicked off the day by thanking the amazing global community of Organizers for their work, and addressed TEDx projects of the future including the TEDxSummit, taking place in April in Doha, Qatar.
Hosting the...
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TEDx at TEDActive Experiences #2: Finding support
Mend-Orshikh Amartaivan is the Organizer of TEDxUlaanbaatar in Mongolia. This is his experience from the TEDx Workshop on Sunday, February 26th at TEDActive.
My day of TEDx Workshop began taking beautiful photo of sunrise at Palm Springs. It was a very exciting morning - I made many new friends during breakfast, and ran into Becca, Lauren, David and Lara who advised and supported me a lot to...
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TEDx at TEDActive Experiences #1: Meeting the...
Elena Zgardan is the Organizer of TEDxChisinau and TEDxYouth@Chisinau, TEDx events in Moldova. This is her experience from Sunday, February 26th at TEDActive:
After an over 20 hour flight, I arrived 3 hours prior to the TEDx Workshop event at TEDActive 2012 taking place in Palm Springs, California. When I arrived, I was afraid that I would not be able to stay awake for the workshop but the early...
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A big open: TEDxBigApple
TEDxBigApple took place on February 4, 2012 in New York, NY.
Each session of the event had its own custom opening titles, created by motion designer Rachel Digerness:
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Countdown to TEDActive: The Calm Before The Storm
Image by chatirygirl on Flickr
Thanks to TEDxPeachtree, I am attending TEDActive, which takes place in Palm Springs,Calif. As the ‘overflow’ site for the TED conference, all talks will be beamed in via satellite. It is also where all TEDx Organizers from all over the world will congregate. In addition to the regular TED program, we will be participating in special activities beginning...
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Heads up Chicago! TEDxParkerSchool coming March...
TEDxParkerSchool will be targeted towards youth — specifically a high school audience.
The event will be held in Chicago at the newly completed and state-of-the-art theater space at Francis Parker School. It is a one-day event (Saturday 1pm-4pm) and many students, adults, community members and educators will be in attendance.
The theme is “The Eye-Opening Experience” because we...
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The rise of performance art: Glenn Lowry @...
The same forces that have fueled the the past year’s protests have reshaped the art world. Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, discusses the trend toward performance art and the rise of the individual.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse...
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WatchAndrew Shapiro, a renowned pianist and TEDxKraków performer, has been featured in a documentary from New York station WQXR.
Here is his performance from TEDxKraków 2010.
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Connecting to the past for peace: Nicos Anastasiou...
In 1974, war tore Nicos Anastaisou from his classmates. At TEDxNicosia, he shares his personal story of how reconnecting with those friends inspired the Cyprus Friendship Programme, a movement to reunite Turkish and Greek Cypriots and bring about a new generation of dialogue.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the...
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Ask why: Jacob Soboroff @ TEDxPhoenix
Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays? Jacob Soboroff recounts how asking the simple question “why?” led to an unlikely but popular campaign to change the American election day. He calls on all of us to question — and then challenge — everything.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx...
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The hope we saw: Anthony Shadid @ TEDxOKC
Anthony Shadid, a New York Times reporter who died last week while covering the conflict in Syria, devoted his life to providing a voice for Arabs seeking a better Middle East. In this poignant talk given just after his return from Libya, he explains how the Arab Spring filled him with hope for the first time.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of...
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An Imperfect Instrument: Jennifer Stumm @...
Jennifer Strum calls the viola the “middle child of the string instruments.” Through a mixture of talk and performance, she offers a compelling meditation on the viola’s capacity for emotion— and for making beautiful music.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its...
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"Spooky" physics: Leo Kouwenhoven @ TEDxDelft
What Einstein called “spooky,” Physicist Leo Kouwenhoven calls the future. In this illuminating talk, he explains quantum entanglement — the property that shows how particles can affect each other, even if they’re on opposite ends of the universe — and demonstrates how we will manipulate it to revolutionize the way our computers work.
Each week, we’ll choose...
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Courageous beauty: Brittany Gibbons @ TEDxBGSU
Brittany Gibbons wants us to drastically change the way we think about women’s bodies. Stripping down to her bathing suit onstage, she makes a passionate call for women of all body types to find confidence in each other.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of...
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Mapping in the fourth dimension: Nick Stanhope @...
What did your neighborhood look like 100 years ago? Using technology similar to Google Earth, Nick Stanhope’s Historypin is creating a global historical map. Built from uploaded photos, video, and written memories, it allows the user to see how a certain place has changed, and who it has changed.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the...
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Pay it forward: Nipun Mehta @ TEDxGoldenGateED
A restaurant where a stranger pays for your dinner, and you pay what you want — for someone else’s meal. It sounds like a recipe for a financial disaster, but the Karma Kitchen is an unlikely success. Nipun Mehta shares the lessons this social experiment has taught him about the power of giving.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the...
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A closer look at cyber charter schools: Ali...
Cyber charter schools are often hailed as the next big thing in education, but do they work? Ali Carr-Chellman questions the effectiveness of these new models of education and examines whether cyber charters serve their students or the CEOs that run them.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its diverse...
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Lost in the crowd: Mike deGruy @...
Mike de Gruy — who passed away last week — made films that are unflinching accounts of why nature is not just beautiful, but essential to human survival. To honor his legacy, we share this talk, in which he bravely takes an unpopular position to explain exactly what is necessary to save our planet, and ourselves.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just...
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Overcoming Tourrette's Syndrome: Marc Elliot @...
Marc Elliott has struggled with Tourrette’s Syndrome his whole life — but that doesn’t stop him from speaking publicly on the importance of tolerance. His engaging and funny talk calls on all of us to be more compassionate, understanding people.
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Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and...
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State of the X: TEDxTalks in January
TEDxTalks by the numbers: January
785 new talks added to the TEDxTalks library
3.5 million views of the TEDxTalks YouTube channel and the TEDxTalks website
22 talks were featured on TED.com (twice as many as in December, our previous record month)
4.2 million views of the TEDxTalks on TED.com
TEDxTalks by the numbers: All Time
12,900 TEDxTalks
27.6 million views of the TEDxTalks on the...
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Why bad ideas endure: Barry Schwartz @...
Poorly designed gadgets are quickly taken off the shelves, so why do bad ideas seem to stick around forever? Psychologist Barry Schwartz studies how ill-conceived ideas cause us to fundamentally misunderstand economics, intelligence and gender differences.
Each week, we’ll choose four of our favorites, highlighting just a few of the enlightening talks from TEDx community, and its...
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How sports can empower girls: Dave Crenshaw @...
“Coach Dave” Crenshaw has dedicated his life to using sports to empower women. At TEDxHunterCCS, he discusses how his Alma mater opened his eyes to the important relationship between athletics, empowering women, and building community — and how he used these lessons to help heal a neighborhood at war.
Hundreds of talks from independently organized TEDx events around the world...
