{"id":643184,"date":"2013-02-20T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=69871"},"modified":"2013-02-20T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T19:16:37","slug":"youre-a-beautiful-crowd-7-moments-of-audience-participation-from-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643184","title":{"rendered":"You’re a beautiful crowd! 7 moments of audience participation from TED"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"audience-shot\"There are certain perils to watching a TED Talk live from the audience \u2013 occasionally you\u2019ll be asked a stumper of a philosophical question or made the brunt of a speaker\u2019s joke. Then again, you might be given seven and a half extra minutes to live, so it\u2019s really a toss-up. In these talks, pulled from a range of TED and TEDGlobals, watch for audience members getting in on the fun.<\/p>\n

And make sure to tune into the TED Blog staring Monday, February 25, for our live coverage of TED2013<\/a>. We\u2019ll be writing about every speaker, as well as all the action on-site in Long Beach, Califorinia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"ArthurArthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic"<\/span><\/a>
\nArthur Benjamin does \u201cMathemagic\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
\nArmed with standard calculators, audience members at TED2005 race mathemagician Arthur Benjamin through a dizzying maze of digits \u2013 and lose. At 8:05, he matches audience members\u2019 DOB with the day of the week they were born.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"JaneJane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life<\/span><\/a>
\nJane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life<\/a><\/strong>
\nGame designer Jane McGonigal\u2019s SuperBetter helped her recover from a head injury. At TEDGlobal 2012, she passes on the healing to the audience, granting them 7.5 extra minutes of life. At 13:00, watch the life-extending action begin.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"MichaelMichael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate<\/span><\/a>
\nMichael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate<\/a><\/strong>
\nFor philosophy professor Michael Sandel, lively debate is the key to a strong democracy \u2013 so he calls on the attendees of TED2010 to bring it back. Throughout the talk, audience members share thoughts on Aristotle and on a then-recent Supreme Court decision.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"CharlesCharles Hazlewood: Trusting the ensemble<\/span><\/a>
\nCharles Hazlewood: Trusting the ensemble<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u201cDid you know that TED is a tune?\u201d asks conductor Charles Hazlewood at TEDGlobal 2011. Starting at 8:48, he leads the audience in rousing chorus inspired by the letters T-E-D.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"BeauBeau Lotto + Amy O\u2019Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included<\/span><\/a>
\nBeau Lotto + Amy O\u2019Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included<\/a><\/strong>
\nNeuroscientist Beau Lotto pulls the audience into some moments of playful discovery onstage at TEDGlobal 2012. In this talk about the joy of scientific inquiry, his slides show off a language gotcha!<\/i>. At 12:35, he calls a fellow TED Speaker up to be experimented on.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"EvelynEvelyn Glennie: How to truly listen<\/span><\/a>
\nEvelyn Glennie: How to truly listen<\/a><\/strong>
\nMusic can be heard with your whole body, says Grammy-winning deaf percussionist and composer Evelyn Glennie. At TED2003, she asks the audience to listen differently, to rethink music and, at 12:15, to clap the sound of falling snow.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"KeithKeith Barry: Brain magic<\/span><\/a>
\nKeith Barry: Brain magic<\/a><\/strong>
\nOne after another, audience members are bedazzled and baffled by Keith Barry\u2019s psychokinetic hijinks at TED2004. He creates phantom sensations, guesses names of ex-boyfriends and narrowly misses one very sharp object.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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There are certain perils to watching a TED Talk live from the audience \u2013 occasionally you\u2019ll be asked a stumper of a philosophical question or made the brunt of a speaker\u2019s joke. Then again, you might be given seven and a half extra minutes to live, so it\u2019s really a toss-up. In these talks, pulled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}