Derek Sivers: How to start a movement Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 01, 2010 With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)

Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: March 08, 2010 At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available...

Jamie Heywood: The big idea my brother inspired Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: February 02, 2010 When Jamie Heywood’s brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious ...

Lalitesh Katragadda: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: January 13, 2010 As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster — and hides the economic potential ...

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 16, 2009 In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale’s rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mi...

Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 03, 2009 With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harv...

Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership’s "missing manual" Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 18, 2009 Leadership doesn’t have a user's manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a...

Jacqueline Novogratz: A third way to think about aid Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 25, 2009 The debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust "charity" against those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jacqueline Novogratz propos...

Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: September 21, 2009 Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of mill...

The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: July 06, 2009 The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and classic midcentury modern furniture. Eames Demetrios, their grandson, shows...

Liz Coleman’s call to reinvent liberal arts education Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 01, 2009 Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasi...

Seth Godin on the tribes we lead Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: May 11, 2009 Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and ...

How ideas trump economic crises — a surprising lesson from 1929 Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: April 27, 2009 The "dismal science" truly shines in this optimistic talk, as economist Alex Tabarrok argues free trade and globalization are shaping our once-div...

Where have the bees gone? Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: December 11, 2008 Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature’s important place in nature and t...

How science is like democracy Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 10, 2008 Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts t...

James Surowiecki: When social media became news Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: November 04, 2008 James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube vide...

A brief history of violence Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, g...

How a ragtag band created Wikipedia Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, ...

Way-new collaboration Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really ...

Open-source economics Channel: TED Length: 0 Date: June 24, 2008 Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.