This college freshman is a cancer detective: A Q&A with Brittany Wenger
When Brittany Wenger was a sophomore in high school, her cousin was diagnosed with breast cancer. She saw firsthand how the disease strikes ...
An infographic cheat sheet for key concepts in “The Grazing Revolution”
Allan Savory has spent decades studying the devastating effects of “desertification“: healthy land degrading into deserts all ar...
Let’s unite as Team Humanity to revive degraded land: A conversation with TED Books author Allan Savory and rancher Gail Steiger
All over the world, land is turning into desert at an alarming rate. Biologist Allan Savory has dedicated a lifetime to figuring out what’s ...
Sally Kohn’s talk, the “clean” version
Sally Kohn had a point to make in her TED Talk. During her career as a progressive lesbian talking head at Fox News, she’d get letters...
The immortality bias: Further reading on the 4 stories we tell ourselves about death
We each live in the shadow of a personal apocalypse: the knowledge that — someday, somehow — we will die. It’s a terrifyin...
Kids share their dreams in these photos from Dear World
By Robert Fogarty of Dear World When I was 14, my dad wrote me a note. He told me to figure out what I wanted and to go for it, but also tha...
Exclusive demo: Blaise Agüera y Arcas shows how the new Photosynth lets you swoop through 3D space
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LxlhoemR3A&w=586&h=330] About a decade ago, Blaise Agüera y Arcas and his team started on a...
From Madrid to Mexico City, New York to Nairobi, Shanghai to Sao Paulo: insiders pick hot spots in these hot cities
Ever wondered where you might see revolutionary graffiti* in Cairo? Or been at a loss to find a Cuban cafe con leche** in New York City? Or ...
TED News in Brief: EyeWire looks to 100K users, Chaz Ebert conducts a review experiment, and more
Join EyeWire, a game to map the brain, from Sebastian Seung’s lab at MIT (watch his TED Talk). The game’s one-year anniversary is today, Dec...