The TED Prize wish: What you can do to end anonymous companies
By Natasha Scripture Anti-corruption activist Charmian Gooch stood up on stage at TED2014 tonight and revealed her TED Prize wish: to get ri...
Tiny and beautiful worlds: Talking molecular animation with TED2014 Fellow Janet Iwasa
At the TED2014 Fellows talks, Janet Iwasa’s astonishing video — which showed the process of molecular self-assembly — went...
In case you missed it: Day 3 at TED2014
Day 3 at TED2014 was dense with science, design, conversation. Here’s a quick recap of some highlights: Hugh Herr and Adrianne Haslet-...
The small coincidences in life: Helder Guimarães’s fascinating magic at TED2014
Magician Helder Guimarães starts his performance at TED2014 by telling the crowd Sturgeon’s law: “90% of everything is crap.” Still, he says...
The fundamental nature of the universe: Allan Adams at TED2014
Allan Adams “became a physicist to understand how the world works at its most fundamental level.” Adams, a professor of theoreti...
What we know about autism: Wendy Chung at TED2014
Wendy Chung of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative says that she is constantly asked the same question by parents: “Why d...
Why does the world exist? An epic poem by Jim Holt at TED2014
Philosopher and writer Jim Holt skips right past the dumb quibbling questions and right to the heart of the great existential mystery: Why s...
Behind-the-Scenes at TED2014: A photo gallery of days 2 and 3
The second and third days of TED2014 have been tremendous—a mind-bending exercise in crackling new ideas and rethinking old ones. Here, a vi...
No really, why? Jason Webley at TED2014
Armed with an accordion and wearing a fetching chocolate brown pork pie hat, musician Jason Webley is here. Or as he puts it, an “unkn...