How microbes could cure disease: Rob Knight at TED2014
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...
The brain is a Swiss Army knife: Nancy Kanwisher at TED2014
Watch this talk on TED.com Onstage at TED, Nancy Kanwisher starts by telling us one of the most surprising results from recent neuroscience ...
Are you human? Ze Frank at TED2014
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...
Going home after ‘Eat Pray Love’: Elizabeth Gilbert at TED2014
Elizabeth Gilbert has written a memoir so famous that strangers think she’s the author of the book … based on the movie. It soun...
Us: The speakers in session 5 of TED2014
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...
What is TED? A category on tonight’s episode of Jeopardy!
In January, Alex Trebek read the following Final Jeopardy! prompt: “This intellectual forum started in 1984, bringing together people from t...
In case you missed it: Day 2 at TED2014
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...
We’re all in the same boat: Sting at TED2014
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...
A scandal of epic proportions hidden in plain sight: TED Prize winner Charmian Gooch reveals her wish at TED2014
“TED Prize winners are heroes,” says longtime TEDster Jeff Skoll, as he introduces this year’s TED Prize winner. “Th...