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The ancient Egyptians went to great pains to preserve the body for the afterlife. But there was one part of the body they didn’t bothe...
Watch this talk on TED.com Onstage at TED, Nancy Kanwisher starts by telling us one of the most surprising results from recent neuroscience ...
To break up a dense (and early) morning session all about Us, performance artist Ze Frank wants to do a quick human test. He asks you to rai...
Elizabeth Gilbert has written a memoir so famous that strangers think she’s the author of the book … based on the movie. It soun...
Who are we? What are we doing here? Such thoughts plague more than just angst-filled teenagers. In this session, speakers take a piercing lo...
In January, Alex Trebek read the following Final Jeopardy! prompt: “This intellectual forum started in 1984, bringing together people from t...
So what went down at TED on day two? Well, a lot, as it happens. As curator Chris Anderson commented rather tiredly later, “that was t...
Here’s a moment that a certain formerly absurdly hormonal teenage girl had been looking forward to for some time. As had many others i...
“TED Prize winners are heroes,” says longtime TEDster Jeff Skoll, as he introduces this year’s TED Prize winner. “Th...