A School in the Cloud among the mangrove trees: Sugata Mitra opens his first independent learning lab in India
“Early one morning last February, a man turned up on my doorstep who had travelled through the night to get there,” said Sugata Mitra, the e...
TED News in Brief: Diana Nyad on “Dancing with the Stars,” Mikko Hyponnen boycotts the RSA security conference, and more
While we’ve been preparing for next week’s TED conference in Vancouver, BC, some TEDsters have been busy Dancing with the Stars, protesting ...
Ads Worth Spreading: 10 great ads from 2014 that communicate ideas
Today’s viewing audiences are far too sophisticated for advertisements full of fake doctors, the word “sale” flashing on repeat, and tight c...
Kinky bonobos and the Magnum P.I. hypothesis: A Q&A with Carin Bondar
There’s wild sex. And then there’s sex in the wild — a topic that biologist and animal sex expert Carin Bondar has been talking about for ye...
Correcting the overhead myth: How Dan Pallotta’s TED Talk has begun to change the conversation
June 2013 was a shocking month for Dan Pallotta, in a good way. “I thought I was living in an alternate universe or something,” he says. “It...
Just added to the TED2014 lineup…
TED2014 begins in five short days, and we have added even more new speakers to look forward to. Below, a bit about each one: Cellist and bea...
How I fell in love with the drums
By Clayton Cameron As a 5-year-old kid, I barely knew what the word rhythm meant. At least no one told me what banging on inanimate objects ...
TED2014 newsmakers: Ray Kurzweil on the year computers will surpass humans, Bill and Melinda Gates seek a better condom design, and much more
With just one week left to go until TED2014, our speakers are putting the final touches on their talks. But that’s hardly all they’ve been u...
Introducing the TED All-Stars: 50+ speakers who’ll return to the stage at TED2014
TED2014 will bring together more than 70 speakers with fresh thinking on topics as diverse as leadership, genetics and the magic of fireflie...