TED

TEDxGrandRapids returns to Grand Rapids Civic Theatre on May 7. Applications to attend the event are now open. A launch party for this year's TEDxGrandRapids is slated Feb. 4 at Downtown Market.

TEDxGrandRapids returns to Grand Rapids Civic Theatre on May 7. The speaker lineup has been announced.

TedxGrandRapids 2013 took place at Grand Rapids Civic Theater on May 9. The event spread "ideas worth spreading" and inspired hundreds. We have the highlights...via Twitter.

It's not a real bird, but it's looks real enough to make you look twice. Markus Fischer and the Festo company presented SmartBird to an audience at a TED talk. The machine flies by wing-flapping rather than by props or rotors. It took composite technology and a lot of tight design to make it work, but its flight looks very seagull-like and almost natural...

Jake Shimabukuro believes that the ukulele is "...the instrument of peace, because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place."