Blog Archive

Building for Day 2

We started the day by asking everyone to describe what their trusted sources are for information and advice about their health. We got quite a lot of responses both on Facebook and in person, and on the wall of our project space. Not surprisingly the range included things like family, friends, Google, web sources, and doctors. A little more surprisingly, though, there were several threads that were about people being afraid that their own ability to judge for themselves would be hampered by knowing information from an officially sanctioned source. Interesting.

Modern Day Bards

Our storytellers are just getting going at TEDActive...

The Community and Commerce project team kicked off their day with a hot cup of coffee and great conversation around their topic.

Power of the Many

When you first walk into TED2012 Full Spectrum at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, you might not notice the thousands of strings strung between the stairs on the second and third levels. It's a hazy rainbow colored mist.