Life is an electrocardiogram in which indignities and downtime are rendered as valleys and peaks, respectively. These are the locations and conditions in which celebs found themselves this week:
With all due respect to Lizzie Velasquez, the vast majority of TED and TEDx talks are complete bullshit, and it's high time someone called them out on it.
The New York Times has a fairly lengthy profile of the 28-year-old former recreational bodybuilder, University of Pennsylvania graduate, and "mastermind," Maria Popova.
While Ice Age: Continental Drift didn't do quite as well as previous installments — I guess 20th Century Fox overestimated the star power of Nicki Minaj — it still topped the box office this weekend, earning $46 million.
We knew The Amazing Spider-Man would be big when it broke its first record earlier this week. Now after six days, it's at the top of the box office with $140 million.
Seth MacFarlane is a comedy god. He has three successful shows on Fox. His film directorial debut, Ted, scooped up $54.1 million this weekend, the third biggest opening for an R-rated movie of all time. The film has been well-reviewed by critics (a healthy 69% Tomatometer reading) and audiences (A- on CinemaScore).…
In the spirit of this weekend's smash hits: fuck you, Pixar.
If your reaction to the Ted trailer wasn't instant arousal, there's a good chance you're not a plushie. But if you are, in fact, a stuffed animal fetishist, Seth MacFarlane's first full-length live-action feature is kind of the holy grail. This is a mainstream film with a talking, highly sexualized teddy bear.
The internet is enraptured by those knowledge suppositories known as TED talks. Mostly because the slick 18-minute YouTube lectures about Big Ideas let procrastinating office workers pretend they're doing something productive by watching them. But how are TED talks made? Here is a peek inside the searing forge fire…
After he delivered a well-received talk on income inequality at the TED University conference on March 1st, multimillionaire investor and Amazon.com early adopter Nick Hanauer was all-but-assured by organizers that his talk would be published on the TED website.
Nerd Coachella TED is bringing its trademark 18-minute Condensed Idea Nuggets™ to schools around the nation, with its new TED-ed platform. They may not know how to do math, but goddamn it our kids are going to learn how to beat a patent troll.
What does Bill Clinton have in common with 27-year-old French street artist "JR"? No, not some sex thing: As of today, they've both won the TED prize, a $100,000 award for "exceptional individuals." Want to see JR's art?
Several weeks ago, Wikileaks.org's founder Julian Assange went into hiding after reports suggested the Pentagon had launched a "manhunt" for him. Looks like he escaped their predator drones: He was a surprise guest at TEDGlobal in Oxford, England.
Must've been good, because Chris Anderson thought it was "god-awful," and one blogger wonders if she "took a dump on stage." The TED website describes her talk as "a new perspective on the number 3000." But...what perspective? Update: Wow.
TED, the annual gathering of the most pretentious people from the fields of technology, entertainment, and design, just got punk'd. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates released a swarm of mosquitos into the crowd.
Has TED organizer Chris Anderson lost his senses? He has invited Digg founder Kevin Rose to TED 2009 — an honor Rose announced on Twitter in hackerspeak. (If you're a regular TED attendee, you may not know that "woot" is an exclamation of excitement; spelling it with numbers is supposed to make it more impressive.)…
A 10-year veteran of the TED conference just told me he's not going back next year. "I'm tired of going into rooms to get berated that I'm not doing enough," he said. "Next year I'm just going to give $6,000 to starving kids in Africa instead."
Michael, listen to me. Don't do it. It's not worth it. Yes, you weren't invited to the TED conference. Yes, 17-year-old entrepreneur Jessica Mah, a 17-year-old best known for blogging about how she "sucks at running companies," is going to TED next year. But you still have so much to give us still. If not at…
