TED News in Brief: Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly to speak at TED2014, 37signals commits to staying small, and much more
This week has brimmed over with TED-related news. Here, some highlights: In 2011, Arizona legislator Gabby Giffords was shot in an assassina...
When science meets sartorial: the skirt and shoe made from kombucha
What might our clothes look like in 50 years? When textile designer Suzanne Lee was researching her book, Fashioning the Future, she found t...
Antibiotic resistance and particle physics: Burlington High School’s TED-Ed Club blinds us with science
“Using a powerful particle gun, we would shoot small pieces of matter through the force field and into the antimatter to make small, c...
The informal as inspiration for rethinking urban spaces: architect Teddy Cruz shares 5 projects
In today’s talk, Teddy Cruz looks at San Diego-Tijuana border, where some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the United States are jus...
Eli Pariser on his excitement for Upworthy, disappointment that the filter bubble isn’t popped
Who rules the Internet? These days it’s Upworthy, Eli Pariser’s socially-bent aggregator, which fills a gap in viral content where puppies u...
How a TED Talk from a fellow suicide attempt survivor helped me rebuild my self-respect
I was a foreign correspondent based in China when I attempted suicide, twice. A big factor was the fear that if anyone knew what I was feeli...
There’s more to the small Skybox satellite than meets the eye. Much, much more
By Jessie Scanlon In January 2011, Fred Villagomez, the head mechanical technician at a Mountain View-based satellite imaging startup, drove...
What’s your $1 million wish for the world? Some amazing ideas
It’s time to nominate someone for the 2015 TED Prize, a $1 million award to a visionary with a great big idea for creating change in t...
Seth Godin: Why I want you to steal my ideas
By Seth Godin Please don’t steal my car. If you drive away with it, I won’t have it any more, which is a real hassle. Please don’t ste...