{"id":651974,"date":"2013-04-11T15:01:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74673"},"modified":"2013-04-11T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:15:26","slug":"three-ted-speakers-have-been-named-guggenheim-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651974","title":{"rendered":"Three TED speakers have been named Guggenheim Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Guggenheim Foundation revealed its new class of Fellows. Three thousand applied and, in the end, 175 scholars, artists, scientists, writers and thinkers were selected &#8212; not just based on their accomplishments to date, but for their potential as well. We were pleased to see three TED speakers among this esteemed group:<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Joshua Foer, who wowed us at TED2012 with his simple techniques for memorizing extremely long lists of numbers and words, has been named a 2013 Fellow in Creative Arts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do.html\">Watch his talk, &#8220;Feats of memory anyone can do&#8221; \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stuart Firestein, the chair of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, opened his TED2013 talk with a puzzling proverb: \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially when there is no cat.\u201d Named a 2013 Fellow in Natural Sciences, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/02\/26\/celebrating-ignorance-stuart-firestein-at-ted2013\/\">read all about his talk in celebration of ignorance \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Green, also a 2013 Fellow in the Natural Sciences, gave an exciting talk at TED2013 about what can happen when microbiologists and architects work together. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jessica_green_good_germs_make_healthy_buildings.html\">Watch her latest talk, \u201cWe\u2019re covered in germs. Let\u2019s design for that.\u201d \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74673\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74673\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=74673&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/qrZfzsrK1Po\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Guggenheim Foundation revealed its new class of Fellows. Three thousand applied and, in the end, 175 scholars, artists, scientists, writers and thinkers were selected &#8212; not just based on their accomplishments to date, but for their potential as well. We were pleased to see three TED speakers among this esteemed group: Journalist Joshua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651974","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\/7345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}