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We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequ...
Artist and TED Fellow Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of...
In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, ...
Today’s gem from the TEDTalks archives: Local politics — schools, zoning, council elections — hit us where we live. So why...
Here’s a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Natura...
On any given day we’re lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Mey...
Imagine it’s late 1990, and you’ve just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts telling you about his proposed sy...
“Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species,” says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research ex...
Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less spac...