New TED Book: The City 2.0
The world’s cities are on pace to balloon from 3.6 billion inhabitants today to more than 6 billion by midcentury. As a result, we face both...
100 icebreakers for talks with strangers: A Q&A with TED Book author Davy Rothbart
If you could ask a stranger any question, what would it be? This is the question Davy Rothbart set out to answer when he embarked on a natio...
TED Fellow Shalini Kantayya bravely shares her story of sexual assault in India
As protests roll through India, calling for punishment of six men who brutally gang raped a 23-year-old woman on a public bus in December wi...
5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think
Economist Keith Chen starts today’s talk with an observation: to say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more ...
Saving for a rainy day: Keith Chen on language that forecasts weather — and behavior
By Keith Chen How are China, Estonia and Germany different from India, Greece and the UK? To an economist, one answer is obvious: savings ra...
TED’s New York office rises and dances for V-Day
The TED staff got up to dance this afternoon to celebrate V-Day. This global movement, founded by TED speaker Eve Ensler, turns 15 today and...
New TED Book: How Did You End Up Here?
Who hasn’t found themselves at party, standing awkwardly by the guacamole, approximately five feet from another person doing the same? Somet...
8 great talks about love
Esther Perel begins today’s talk with an intriguing question: “Why does good sex so often fade even for couples who continue to love each ot...
7 things we learned about online dating from the co-founder of OKCupid
Few people know more about online dating that Christian Rudder, co-founder and editorial director of OKCupid. Privy to the vast mountains of...