Let’s talk about sex: Highlights from our chat with John Bohannon and Carl Flink
“The birds and the bees” and “the facts of life.” These are the terms adults have come up with when it comes to talk...
Can we overcome partisanship? TED@250 explores the economy, political gridlock and the fiscal cliff
The term “fiscal cliff” has gained traction in the U.S. news in the past few months, at least in part because it paints a vivid metaphorical...
New playlists: How To Tell A Story and A Cure For Cancer?
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, ...
7 talks about incredible walks
[ted id=1631 width=560 height=315] Ben Saunders spent 10 weeks walking from the north coast of Russia to the North Pole, and around to the n...
Parkour goes ‘x’
Kind of like skateboarding without the skateboard, parkour is a physical art form in which practitioners, run, jump, twist and flip off the ...
A community center, built by the community, wins the latest City 2.0 award
The Klong Toey Community Lantern — a community space in the oldest and largest of Bangkok’s slums — was built very quickly. Not ...
A sampling of Maz Jobrani’s stand-up, sprinkled with the work of his Axis of Evil Comedy Tour collaborators
[ted id=1629 width=560 height=315] Comedian Maz Jobrani has some advice for anyone who happens to be Middle Eastern and getting on a plane i...
3 moments in 2012 that show YouTube may soon overtake traditional news sources
When an earthquake shook Costa Rica in September of 2012, it took 60 seconds for the tremors to travel 250 kilometers north to Managua, Nica...
New playlists: Work Smarter and Objects of Desire
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, ...