Books to get you ready for TED2015
Counting the days ’til TED2015? Yeah: we are, too. Before the conference begins on March 16, dive into a great book written by one of our sp...
What is a “smart” syringe? By 2020, you’ll be getting all your shots with one
In the small village of Roka in western Cambodia, 272 people have tested positive for HIV since the end of 2014. Among those diagnosed: an 8...
Last night’s Academy Awards: The TED connection
TED was well-represented at the 87th annual Academy Awards last night. Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras took home the Oscar for Best Docu...
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...
Seafaring robots, the corruption-poverty paradox, a shout-out from Parks and Rec and more
As usual, the TED community has been very busy over the past week. Below, a few newsy highlights. Seafaring robots. TED Fellow Cesar Harada’...
Drew Curtis of Fark.com is running for governor of Kentucky. How a TED Talk inspired his campaign—and why he hopes it’ll inspire you too
Drew Curtis is not a politician. The curator of Fark.com, the legendary online community of news jokes and funny Photoshops, he proudly proc...
Truth meets dare: Our curators on the speakers and themes of TED2015
At the end of TED2015, curator Chris Anderson and content director Kelly Stoetzel want people to walk away feeling like “they’ve had with th...
Meet 6 new speakers just added to the TED2015 speaker lineup
TED2015 promises to be our most provocative, thought-flipping conference yet. And we’ve added a few new speakers and performers to the lineu...
What I learned from watching every TED-Ed Lesson
As a Production Intern at TED-Ed, a big part of my job has been to make sure none of our video files have any glitches. So for the past two ...