Rethinking the term ‘illegal’ immigrant: Because people can’t be illegal
Last week, the Associated Press announced its decision to remove the term “illegal immigrant” from the AP Stylebook. In a blog post by Direc...
5 great stories with double lives as allegories
“Once upon a time, there was a place called Lesterland,” Lawrence Lessig begins today’s talk. “Of its 311 million people, it turns out 144,0...
How we can make elections about the people, not just funders: An excerpt of Lawrence Lessig’s new TED Book, “Lesterland”
Before we can tackle climate change, financial reform, education reform or, well, anything, there is a single issue that we in the United St...
TEDWeekends thinks you should rethink your sanity
At TED2012, Jon Ronson wove a mind-bending tale that asks: How can we truly tell who is a psychopath? What’s the line between crazy and sane...
Watch Bryan Stevenson on “Moyers & Company”
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/62923489 w=400&h=300] Bryan Stevenson, who gave the powerhouse talk “We need to talk about an injustice” at ...
TED Radio Hour explores what happens when we make mistakes
It happens to the best of us: as hard as we try to be perfect, on occasion, we mess up. Today’s TED Radio Hour explores how we deal with mis...
My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life
By Kylie Dunn What do you get when you cross a 39-year-old perfectionist with 54 TED Talks and far more honesty than any person probably nee...
4 unexpected lion stories
Richard Turere, 13, grew up hating lions. In Nairobi National Park, where he lives, lions roam freely and often targeted his family’s livest...
TED Weekends wonders: What’s the key to memory?
Joshua Foer thought he might have set out on a fool’s errand when he started training to compete in the U.S. Memory Championship. Only, he e...