Video: Three views of tech innovation in Africa
These three fascinating videos made by TED and IBM show how technology is helping solve problems in three case studies across Africa, filmed...
Let’s talk about poo: Fellows Friday with Francis de los Reyes III
Environmental engineer Francis de los Reyes works with cutting-edge microbiological techniques to create solutions in the fields of environm...
Red Hook still hurting after Hurricane Sandy: A diary
New York is slowly but surely coming back to life after being battered by Hurricane Sandy. Nearly all of Manhattan has electricity, and subw...
“We quite suddenly realized that we were looking at a general pattern”: Q&A with Richard Wilkinson
In 2009, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published the book The Spirit Level, making a bold case that economic inequality...
How economic inequality harms societies: Richard Wilkinson on TED.com
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequ...
Video: Meet TEDx in a Box version 2.0
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/30656539 w=525&h=294] TEDx in a Box is a toolkit with all the gear needed to host a TEDx event in the developing...
The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee: Ian Ritchie on TED.com
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...
Finding life we can’t imagine: Christoph Adami on TED.com
How do we search for alien life if it’s nothing like the life that we know? At TEDxUIUC Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research...
The generation that’s remaking China: Yang Lan on TED.com
Yang Lan, a journalist and entrepreneur who’s been called “the Oprah of China,” offers insight into the next generation of...