TED Prize : Wishes Big Enough to Change the World

Canadian gov’t invests $20 million in AIMS-Next Einstein Initiative

casson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:08:03 +0000

In 2008, Neil Turok wished to unlock and nurture scientific talent across Africa, so that within our lifetimes we are celebrating an African Einstein. The TED Community rallied around Neil’s plan to create a network of 15 centers to develop the bright scientific minds of Africa by 2020. Based upon the success of the African [...]

Abreu Fellows graduate!

casson — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:14:48 +0000

Yesterday, the inaugural Abreu Fellows attended a simple lunchtime ceremony in Boston to commemorate their graduation. A year has passed since 10 amazing young musicians began the El Sistema USA program at New England Conservatory, learning all the skills they needed to follow in the footsteps of TEDPrize winner Maestro Jose Abreu. Using the example of his groundbreaking program in [...]

Intern for setiQuest this summer

casson — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:15:10 +0000

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”— Dr. Carl Sagan. Where do you want to go this summer? How about helping harness the power of citizen scientists to improve the search for extraterrestrial signals? The Quest setiQuest is an effort to tap into the global brain trust, harness [...]

Toolkits to start your own food revolution

casson — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:53:12 +0000

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution lit a fire under many people to create change in America and beyond. Over 600,000 people have already signed the petition. Almost 30,000 people are engaging with one another and developing a Food Revolution Community on Facebook. Now toolkits are available to help you start your own revolution. With information to get you cooking [...]

An SOS on World Oceans Day

casson — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:01:13 +0000

Today, June 8, is United Nation’s World Oceans Day. On CNN.com Sylvia Earle expresses her thoughts on the urgent need to protect the ocean and how the Gulf Oil Spill has brought this need into sharp relief. It once seemed that, as with the ocean as a whole, the Gulf was so big and so resilient [...]

World Science Festival 2010 report: The Search for Life in the Universe

casson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:10:13 +0000

Photo by Robert Leslie Last night at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse moderated a discussion centered around the age-old question: Are we alone? Four scientists, including 2009 TED Prize winner Jill Tarter, shared their latest projects, which are better equipping Earthlings to answer this exciting question. Steven Squyres, who works on NASA’s [...]

An Update from the Abreu Fellows

casson — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:40:36 +0000

An update from Alvaro Rodas, Abreu Fellow - It already feels like a lot of time has passed, but we got back from our 2-month visit in Venezuela only 3 weeks ago. The visit, which was the most eagerly anticipated part of the Abreu Fellows Program, took us to over 60 youth orchestra centers (known as [...]

Celebrating Science at the SETI Institute

casson — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:01:12 +0000

Why do we pay for overfishing? Mission Blue calls for end to subsidies

casson — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:38:03 +0000

In advance of this summer’s G-20 summit in Toronto this June, today Mission Blue called on the G-20 nations to halt the growth of worldwide fishing subsidies. In a letter delivered to Stephen Harper, prime minister of Canada, 67 participants in Mission Blue share their grave concern about the state of the world’s fisheries, and point to [...]

Mission Blue Talks on TED.com

casson — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:24:53 +0000

The first three talks from the Mission Blue voyage have been posted on TED.com. Underwater filmmaker Mike deGruy has spent decades looking intimately at the ocean. A consummate storyteller, he takes the stage at Mission Blue to share his awe and excitement — and his fears — about the blue heart of our planet. Some 80 to [...]