Highlights from TED
Check out some of my favorite video series that I worked on during my seven years at TED. Plus, lots of articles from Ideas.TED.com.
Small Thing, Big Idea:
A TED original series
What makes the pencil so perfect? How did the button change fashion? I researched + wrote this Webby-winning series featuring speakers like Isaac Mizrahi and Paola Antonelli of MOMA.
The past, present + future of food in space
In 1962, John Glenn became the first American to eat in space, squeezing applesauce and puréed beef through his helmet. Here, the past and present of space food, plus a peek at what's next.
Ideas from an inventor with 200+ patents
Robert Fischell invented the rechargeable pacemaker and the implantable insulin pump — and created the precursor to GPS. I interviewed the 87-year-old inventor about his creative process.
Torchbearers: Lives changed by TED Talks
In this 5-part series for CNN's Great Big Story, meet people who picked up the ideas in TED Talks and ran with them — from a 90-year-old space archaeologist to the Mayor of Louisville.
The Way We Work:
A TED original series
The way we work is changing, all the time. In this series — for which I’ve been the researcher + writer for three seasons and counting — speakers share insights to help us keep up.
The year in ideas, in 8 minutes flat
What were the most powerful ideas of 2014? I put together this 8-minute highlight reel — and worked with TED’s tech team to create an interactive web tour of the talks included.
How color helps tell a story in film
There’s no Academy Award for Best Color, but this less-celebrated element helps tell a story. In this piece, insights from the makers of Moonlight and Pixar's director of photography.
Finding the work you were meant to do
You don’t just find your calling — you fight for it. That’s the idea at the heart of this interview with Dave Isay, the founder of StoryCorps. I still get so much email about this story.
The sculpture gallery at the bottom of the sea
Jason deCaires Taylor sinks giant cement sculptures into the ocean. The final pieces are half sculpted by him, and half by the aquatic species that make them home. I talked to him about this work.
And more stories:
Finding the lost cultures of ancient Peru (June 2016)
How the race to connect a billion people in India could change the Internet (May 2016)
This plane? This plane can fly for 118 hours (Aug. 2015)
A walk with Daniel Kish, the real life Batman (March 2015)
Sebastian Junger's last patrol (Nov. 2014)
These families are just like yours, with one important difference (Oct. 2014)
What Fabien Cousteau learned from living underwater for 31 days (October 2014)
How embroidery helps women in Pakistan stand up to honor killings (Oct. 2014)
How to teach a young introvert (Sept. 2014)
How empathy transformed two lives wrecked by terrorism (Sept.2014)
7 ways stress does your mind and body good (July 2014)
From biting-ant sutures to replacement brain tissue: a brief history of biomaterials (Feb.2014)
The moneyball effect: How smart data is transforming criminal justice, health, music, + government spending (Jan. 2014)
Science and surreality meet in Miwa Matrayek's newest work (Jan. 2014)
No more needles? 7 ways scientists are attempting to move beyond shots (Jan. 2014)
2013: The year in ideas (Dec. 2013)
David Christian's Big History gets much, much bigger (Dec. 2013)
The next evolutions of thumb wrestling (Nov. 2013)
Ashton Kutcher, the "magnificent failure": A Q&A (Nov. 2013)
A Ford Fiesta becomes a Transformer: A look at Hetain Patel's latest work (Oct. 2013)
Man watches 296 TED Talks in a week. We ask him why. (Oct. 2013)
The future of facial recognition (Oct. 2013)
11 of the funniest TED Talk spoofs, and what speakers can learn from them (Oct. 2013)
8 movies about memory manipulation, and how they inspired real neuroscience (Aug. 2013)
David, Goliath and the appeal of the underdog: A Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell (Sept. 2013)
10 old movies about new technology (June 2013)
The power of a flashbulb, learned from Giles Duley (Dec. 2012)
9 covetable toys that blurred the line between robot, pet and friend (April 2013)