Coming out in a TED Talk? That was hard. Watching the talk with my co-workers? Even harder.
For Morgana Bailey, it was nerve-wracking enough to step on the TED stage and reveal that she is a lesbian — a fact she’d kept hidden for 16...
5 TED Talks that are racier than Fifty Shades of Grey
You might not think TED has anything to do with Fifty Shades of Grey. We didn’t either. Until we woke up this morning to find ourselves call...
Mysterious real estate moguls, Twitter shaming, an award for our latest TED Book, and more
As usual, the TED community has been very busy over the past week. Below, a few newsy highlights. Real estate and corruption. New York is kn...
Beautiful words of tolerance, captured in Chapel Hill shooting victim’s StoryCorps interview
On Tuesday, college students Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, her husband, Dean Barakat, 23, and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, were shot and killed i...
TEDxGalápagos tells the story of Galapagos’ humans
There aren’t many places on earth more mythical than the Galápagos Islands, the archipelago that sparked Charles Darwin to form his theory o...
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,...
The bare truth about the gender-binary, growing bones from your own stem cells and why “wintry mix” is a sweetly deceptive term
The TED community has been busy in the past week. Below, a few TEDsters with news to share. Accepting people for who they say they are. In a...
The TED2015 speaker lineup revealed
The phrase “truth or dare” is a false binary — facing the truth often requires daring action, and vice versa. That’s why, at TED2015: ...
What’s the probability of finding your soulmate at a party? Read The Mathematics of Love
When TED asked Hannah Fry to write a book on the mathematics of finding true love, Fry happened to be — of all places — on her honeymoon. “[...