Kate Stone: I’m proud to be transgender — but ask me about my work first
When creative scientist Kate Stone gave her talk at TED2013, her biggest worry was whether her paper DJ decks would work onstage. Something ...
Why this might just be the most significant TED Talk ever posted
I want to give you the back story behind today’s TED Talk and make the case that it’s one of the most significant we’ve ev...
6 unexpected historical figures with the civic hacker mindset
Hacking has always been an important component of healthy democracies. Despite the bad connotation the word often has these days — ind...
5 studies that offer fascinating conclusions about human sexuality
The standard narrative of human sexual evolution says: men provide women with goods and services in exchange for women’s sexual fidelity. Bu...
Examining prejudice: An in-office TED session
Last night in our office, we held a miniature TED session around the theme “Examining Prejudice.” And while it explored issues of discrimina...
The Moneyball Effect: How smart data is transforming criminal justice, healthcare, music, and even government spending
When Anne Milgram became the Attorney General of New Jersey in 2007, she was stunned to find out just how little data was available on who w...
10 facts about infidelity, as divulged by Helen Fisher
Love isn’t so much an emotion, says Helen Fisher in her TED Talk. No, love is a brain system — one of three that that’s related to mat...
A different kind of sex change: See how quickly a society can shift its sexual attitudes
“The political and the sexual are intimate bedfellows,” says Shereen El Feki in yesterday’s talk. “That is true for all of us, no matter whe...
Mapping history: How Google Maps and Nat Geo are layering old and new space (just like today’s TED Talk)
Frederic Kaplan has found an unconventional way to build a time machine. Rather than making a metal object (or, uh, a police call box) that ...