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TED Global 2011

Carole Cadwalladr of the Observer posts daily highlights of the presentations at TED Global 2011 in Edinburgh
  • Chris Anderson TED

    TED's Chris Anderson: the man who made YouTube clever

    With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts. But that, he says, is only the start of an educational revolution

  • TED Global: Brilliant babies, electric grannies and bankers behaving badly

    Carole Cadwalladr: Speakers at TED Global on Thursday waxed lyrical about the creativity of toddlers, the role of grandmothers in spreading solar power in Sierra Leone, and bankers' brains

  • TED talks in Edinburgh : Elizabeth Murchison

    TED Global 2011: Interspecies sex, the West's killer apps and expert liars

    Carole Cadwalladr: On Wednesday delegates at TED Global 2011 were treated to talks on human-Neanderthal hybridisation, the end of Western supremacy and the post-truth society

  • TED Conference in Edinburgh : Rebecca MacKinnon

    TED Global 2011: Forget Glastonbury, this is Nerdstock

    Giant corporations behaving like nation states, the creation of life, social immobility, flying like a bird and the tyranny of the algorithm - TED Global 2011 had something smart to say on all these subjects

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