Signs of friendship: A conversation between Christine Sun Kim & Renée Hlozek
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVSYsKH2AJA&w=560&h=315%5D Above, Christine Sun Kim and Renée Hlozek share a snippet of c...
mPowering the Apple ResearchKit: How Max Little put a Parkinson’s app on the iPhone
This week, Apple turned the iPhone into a medical research tool with the launch of ResearchKit. This open-source framework, described in the...
Why I chose to stand up, alone: TED Fellow Boniface Mwangi on risking his life for justice in Kenya
Award-winning photojournalist Boniface Mwangi captured the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya unflinchingly through the lens of his c...
Octopus’s garden: A TED Fellow with a radical approach to saving fisheries
Eco-entrepreneur Alasdair Harris is passionate about conserving marine biodiversity, and he’s doing it in unusual ways. While most mar...
Design for dying: A TED Fellow thinks deeply about the architecture of death
Alison Killing thinks a lot about death … and specifically, how its ubiquitous, hidden presence shapes our cities. In Death in Venice,...
Filmmaker, blogger … butcher? How TED Fellow Bassam Tariq works to upend conventional views of Muslim life
Artist Bassam Tariq is determined to shine a light on the incredible diversity of Muslim life – and he does it by any means necessary. Known...
How a TED Fellow’s mobile triage app could save lives around the world
Every day, emergency room workers use triage to prioritize patient care — but exhausted personnel in under-resourced hospitals can eas...
Could you build your own house, car or tractor? A TED Fellow on his adventures in extreme manufacturing
What if you could build a civilization from scratch, using tools that could also be built from scratch? In his talk “Open-sourced blue...
Are you being tracked? A TED Fellow on how law enforcement follows your movements, and why you should care
Did you know that across the United States, cameras are automatically taking pictures of your car’s license plate as you drive by, recording...