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TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design [7]) is an American-Canadian non-profit [7] media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "Ideas Change Everything" (previously "Ideas Worth Spreading"). [8]
See also References External links A Speaker Talk(s) Wajahat Ali The case for having kids (TED2019) Trevor Aaronson How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists (TED2015) Chris Abani Telling stories from Africa (TEDGlobal 2007) On humanity (TED2008) Hawa Abdi Mother and daughter doctor-heroes (TEDWomen 2010) Marc Abrahams A science award that makes you laugh, then think ...
In 2001, the foundation acquired the TED Conference, then an annual meeting of luminaries in the fields of technology, entertainment and design, held in Monterey, California. Anderson left Future to work full-time on TED. [4] He expanded the conference to cover all topics, including science, culture, academia, and business and key global issues.
In 2004, she founded Science Saturdays, a program of entertaining science lectures for middle school children. [12] In 2012, Ramirez gave a TED talk on the main stage in Los Angeles on the importance of STEM education. [13] After 10 years at Yale, Ramirez made a career change from academia and became a self-declared "science evangelist". [14]
A further form of scientific outreach in the digital age is TED Talks. Science is one of the basic themes of Ted Talks, and examples of scientific celebrities who have presented TED Talks include E.O. Wilson, Barry Schwartz, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Brian Greene, and Laura Boykin, among others.
Shohini Ghose is a quantum physicist and Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. [1] She has served as the president of the Canadian Association of Physicists (2019-2020), [2] co-editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Physics, [3] and the Director of the Laurier Centre for Women in Science. [1]
The talks (all of which have been previously recorded and released by TED) are supplemented by follow-up interviews with the speaker, original reporting and other segments that bring the ideas to life. Each TED Radio Hour episode is elaborately stylized, layering original sound design under each TED Talk and conversation.
Lauren Sallan is an American academic who is the head of the Macroevolution Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and was previously the Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.