TED Radio Hour asks: What is beauty?
We all know what it feels like to stand in a place that overwhelms our eyes with splendor, to hear a piece of music that seems to pluck the ...
9 great talks about talking
TED Talks cover an incredible breadth of topics — from mathematical origami to self-repairing architecture to personalized medicine. S...
We can make our government work: A Q&A with TED Books author Lawrence Lessig
When it comes to US politics, many are frustrated that gridlock and grandstanding so often substitute for the hard job of getting things don...
New playlist: Listen up
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, ...
TEDWeekends traces the origin of the All-American Chinese takeout
Turns out the fortune cookie that came with your chop suey isn’t actually Chinese … and neither is the chop suey. So where did they come fro...
TED Radio Hour asks the question: Why are some people violent while others aren’t?
Are people born violent, or is violence something learned? And what can be done to keep human beings from harming one another? These are que...
7 writer/artist/thinker groups whose members made a tremendous impact on their time … as well as ours
In 1812, four men met for a “philosophical breakfast” at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, Richard Jones and William Whe...
10 amazing comments from renegade gardener Ron Finley
Ron Finley, the self-described renegade gardener, gave a hit talk at TED2013 on his gardening efforts all over South Central LA. Finley is a...
5 powerful talks about the quest for equality in the United States
Freeman Hrabowski was a 9th grader in Birmingham, Alabama, when he heard a dynamic, impassioned speaker at church — Dr. Martin Luther ...