How social networks predict epidemics: Nicholas Christakis on TED.com
After mapping humans’ intricate social networks, Nicholas Christakis and colleague James Fowler began investigating how this informati...
New Best of the Web talk: Seth Godin
Seth Godin: This is broken Why are so many things broken? In a hilarious talk from the 2006 Gel conference, Seth Godin gives a tour of thing...
New Best of the Web talk: Diane Savino on gay marriage
Diane J. Savino: The case for same-sex marriage Hours before New York lawmakers rejected a key marriage equality bill (38-24), State Senator...
Q&A with Nicholas Christakis: Our modern, connected lives
The TEDBlog caught up with physician and social scientist Nicholas Christakis just before his talk posted to ask him a few questions about s...
Cindy Gallop: Make love, not porn
ALERT: This talk contains graphic sexual language. At TED2009, audience member Cindy Gallop gave a 4-minute presentation that became one of ...
A trickster’s theory of everything: Emily Levine on TED.com
Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects to everything else. She&#...
The fate of the newspaper: Exclusive interview with Jacek Utko
Newspaper designer Jacek Utko suggests that it’s time for a fresh, top-to-bottom rethink of the newspaper. (At this point, why not try...
Trendables — 6 products that can
-able, everyone’s favorite “can-do” adjective suffix, is enjoying a revival. 20-some years since its heyday, we’ve f...
8 tips for speakers from a TED photographer
Via boingboing: James Duncan Davidson was one of our shooters at TED2009 (along with Asa Mathat — an amazing team). As a photographer ...