April 2012
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How to use a paper towel: Joe Smith
You use paper towels to dry your hands everyday, but chances are, you’re doing it wrong. Joe Smith shows proper paper towel technique at TEDxConcordiaUPortland.
Each week, we choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading. Browse all TEDxTalks here »
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Eavesdropping on plants: Jack Schultz
Plants collaborate, compete, and even communicate with each other. At TEDxMU, Dr. Jack Schultz breaks down a few of these plant behaviors and shows how we can decipher their chemical codes to improve everything from pesticide use to the way we pick our fruit.
Each week, we choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its...
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Misspending education: Michelle Rhee
Are we investing enough in our schools? Yes, but that’s missing the point. At TEDxWallStreet, Michelle Rhee unveils some of the fundamental flaws preventing a school’s money from going where it will have the most impact.
Each week, we choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas...
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Unlock music for everyone: Ardon Shorr
For many, classical music is…well, boring. At TEDxCMU, Ardon Shorr shows us how using visualization and cognitive tricks can unlock the hidden structure of this sometimes impenetrable art.
Each week, we choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading. Browse all...
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The power of x: TEDxSummit Opening Night
TEDxSummit Opening Night marked the start of a week-long global gathering of 650 TEDx organizers from over 90 countries, to celebrate “The power of x”. “X began as a superscript”, TED curator Chris Anderson explained, “to denote an independently organized event, but now it has come to signify a multiplier”. The multiplier effect encompasses ideas, imagination, creativity, expansion,...
Great quotes from TEDxSummit
Collected by Felicia Kamriani … nuggets of wisdom and insight from last week’s TEDxSummit
“The bigger the dream, the smaller the competition.” Javier Yunes, TEDxRosario “The city you get is the city you build.” Norman Lee, TEDxManitoba “The best team is the one you already have.” Julian Dominguez Yates, TEDxRosario “Don’t swim upstream.” Alexander Jutkowitz, TED PR
“When...
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Photos: Solve for x
On Thursday, April 19, Bob Cole decided to collect some data from participants at TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar. He set out with a camera and a very simple question: What is the power of x? He approached attendees and simply said, “Will you play my game?”
Browse the Solve for x photoset »
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Guide: How to find great speakers who are TED...
At this week’s TEDxSummit, Tom Rielly gave the TEDx’ers a little gift from the TED Fellows program — by premiering a brand-new guide to finding great speakers who also happen to be Fellows. In the downloadable guide, each TED Fellow, past and present, gets a page to list everything they’re passionate about and ready to give a talk on, as well as links to past video so you...
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The kids will be alright: Q&A with translator and...
TEDxSummit, 16 April - 20 April, 2012. Doha, Qatar. Photo: Kris Krüg
At TEDxSummit we caught up with Kristine Sargsyan, TED translator and organizer for TEDxYerevan. Kristine has been working in the NGO and business sector as an Organizational Development Consultant and Project Coordinator for 13 years.
When and why did you start translating for TED?
I started translating TEDTalks in 2009...
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WatchPortrait of Doha, Qatar
Our photographer James Duncan Davidson shares this beautiful video, with this introduction: If you’ve been following along my blog, you’ve seen a lot of mentions of scouting locations and a lot of photo for a project I’ve been working on. This short video is the next evolution of that project. It’s not done yet, but this is a good moment in time to show the work. It was...
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Baby steps are okay: Greening your event, with...
TEDxSummit, 16 April - 20 April, 2012. Doha, Qatar. Photo: Kris Krüg
During the opening session of the second day of TEDxSummit workshops, TEDxAmsterdam’s Irene Rompa gave a talk on how to make a TEDx (or any!) event more sustainable. This is what we learned:
1. Baby steps are okay. Sustainability often feels like too overwhelming or too vague a topic. But as Irene reminds us, baby steps...
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The Power of x in the desert
One of the greatest things that TEDx’ers have is our collective power to do amazing things together. In 2010, TEDxSingapore asked every attendee to wear red or white shirt at our event and we created a human TED logo with about 150 people. We always wished to inspire a bigger one. At TEDxSummit, hundreds of passionate TEDx’ers from over 90 countries gathered and on Desert Day,...
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Bleedin' cuttin' edge at TEDxSummit
Photo: Kris Krug
We’re on a bus to to Northern Qatar. First impressions of Doha? Amazing. Unbelievable. Wild. Crazy. Cutting Edge. Adjectives rattle off tongues, but none seem awesome enough. “Everything is so new!” remarks an attendee from Brazil. “It’s such a melting pot—I never imagined it would be so diverse.” The excitement is palpable, the air is abuzz—for most organizers, being here...
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On performing at TED and the Artist Formerly Known...
Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Last night Reggie Watts performed at TED@Doha, the first of TED’s Worldwide Talent Search events, during TEDxSummit. During rehearsal members of the TED staff caught up with him to talk about … whatever he wanted to talk about.
I saw you perform at TEDxGotham; some people just didn’t get your style.
Yeah, TED and TEDx are a little bit different because...
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The story of the first TEDx: Q&A with Krisztina...
Krisztina “Z” Holly was the first person to ever be called a TEDx organizer. Her event, TEDxUSC, took place on March 23, 2009, and had 1,200 attendees. Last year there were 6,000 applicants for those same 1,200 spots. We caught up with her at TEDxSummit.
How did you get involved with TEDx (before it even existed)?
One of my team members, Elisa Schreiber, and I reached out to Chris Anderson in...
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“We are a small group of ten people. Italian people mind thier own business. So...”
– Anna Brener, TEDxAlbissola
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“When you start a TEDx event you never think that you’ll end up having...”
– Marco Andrade Bueno Brandao, TEDxRio
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Someone not me: Marconi Periera, TEDxRio
This is part of a series of interviews which explores the personalities of some of the TEDx organizers gathered in Doha, Qatar for the TEDxSummit. Who are You? Which TEDx are you associated with? What do you think makes your TEDx unique? I’m Marconi Pereira from Rio de Janerio, Brazil. I organize TEDxRio and TEDxRio+20. I think these TEDx events are different from others because they focus on...
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Remapping the personal at TEDxSummit
Go around a room full of TEDx organizers and you are bound to hear one of two things: How TEDx has developed in different communities over time, or how TEDx has driven us to become equivalent of modern day TEDx zombies. (noun: an ancient form of human organism prone to eating ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner and vomiting idea spectrums at will). While the latter is still a hush hush topic at...
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Scenes from TEDxSummit workshops
Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Chris Anderson demos the anticipated new platform, TED-Ed, which allows teachers to upload their best lessons to be turned into animated videos for students. TED-Ed also employs flip teaching, so that any teacher may “flip” a lesson and make it their own. Attendees voice their passion and interest, suggesting improvements and features before the site has...
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April 16: Watch a TED session live online from...
This week, in Doha, Qatar, we’re launching a four-day-long workshop called TEDxSummit — where 700 TEDx organizers from around the world will meet to take classes and learn from one another how to make great local TEDx events.
And to kick off the summit, we’re throwing a session of TED — and inviting the world to watch live!
Mark your calendar for TEDxSummit Opening Night, a two-hour session...
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Rediscover your compassion: Saba Gul
Empathy is one of the oldest and most vital human traits, says Saba Gul — where has it gone? At TEDxFCCollege she discusses the limits of intellect without solidarity and how to rediscover our compassion for others.
Each week, we choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth...
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Youssef Chaker on the challenges and rewards of...
TEDxBeirut, unlike other events, wasn’t about the speakers and the big names featured on the program. The theme for TEDxBeirut 2011 was “From Limitation to Inspiration.” What people outside of the TEDxBeirut organizing team didn’t realize is that the theme wasn’t as much a theme for the talks, as it was a theme for the journey the team went through.
TEDx events are special no matter where they...
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Medicine starts before birth: Eduard Gratacós
Problems that occur during fetal brain development can follow us for our entire lives — but our current technology cannot diagnose neural conditions until after birth. At TEDxBarcelona, Eduard Gratacós discusses how he collaborated with engineers and mathematicians to develop predictive algorithms that read ultrasounds to find children who are at risk of abnormal neural development.
Each...
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The three best reasons to watch the TEDxChange...
TEDxChange, happening on April 5, is being livestreamed all over the world on TED.com and TEDxChange.org. April 5 is a Thursday, which means that you’re probably at work with a bunch of meetings to attend. Lucky for you, the program is only 90 minutes, and it’s worth it — so reschedule your calls and take a long lunch break. The livestream airs at 5:30pm CEST (Berlin time), which translates...
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Media plurality matters: Chris Goodall
When only a few people own the news, they wield disproportionate power to manipulate public opinion. At TEDxOxford, Chris Goodall warns how a loss of diverse opinions threatens the integrity of “old media.”
Each week, we choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth...
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Three TEDxChange events to look out for
TEDxChange is happening on April 5th — nearly 200 events from around the world are taking part in the livestream from Berlin, to be shown on TED.com and TEDxChange.org at 5:30 PM CEST.
Here are three events to check out:
TEDxChisinauChange; Chisinau, Moldova. Featuring five local speakers who will focus on the theme: “Take the Challenge, Be the Change”. Learn more about this event
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