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Last week on TED.com, origami-folding techniques transformed a 50-cent piece of paper into a fully functioning microscope, human DNA came tu...
X Marks the Spot: Painted people in Washington, morality pills in Spain, and shark repellent wetsuits in Australia
What would happen if artists Art Wolfe and Liu Bolin stepped into the same room? It’s possible that the space around them would melt into pa...
What will sports look like in the future? How science + technology are changing the limits of the human body
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEX0eb2eBo&w=586&h=440] If you’ve ever seen grainy old sports footage—for example, a boxing...
J.J. Abrams creates an actual mystery box
[ted id=205] J.J. Abrams’ talk has perhaps the best title of all time: “The mystery box.” In it, the Star Trek director and Lost co-creator ...
7 ways to have fun with DNA
[ted id=1942] When TED Fellow Gabriel Barcia-Colombo saw an extraction of strawberry DNA for the first time, he was smitten. “I’d never thou...
Remembering Sherwin Nuland
[ted id=189] Surgeon, author and speaker Sherwin Nuland died on March 3, 2014, at age 83. The author of a dozen books — including the ...
Andrew Stanton’s storytelling TED Talk featured in Oscars ad
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpOjnXcy8NE&w=586&h=330] During the Oscars, I got teary at three things: Lupita Nyong’o’s ac...
TED News in Brief: Olafur Eliasson puts sunshine in your pocket, Thomas Dolby launching a center for technology + arts
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vds6z9HzgaY&w=586&h=330] This week, so much TED-related news hit the transom. Below, some of...
Charmian Gooch of Global Witness wins the TED Prize; will reveal wish for the world at TED2014
“It’s easy to think that corruption happens somewhere over there, carried out by a bunch of greedy despots,” says anti-corruption activist C...