What it’s like to grow old, in different parts of the world
The world’s population is getting older. Across the globe, people are living longer thanks to improvements in healthcare, nutrition and tech...
Take a flying drone for a walk
“When I started working in this field, the word ‘drone’ wasn’t used at all!” Sergei Lupashin says a little pla...
7 TED Talks about memory
Experiences we have all had: walking into a room with a tremendous sense of purpose, only to realize that you have completely forgotten what...
DJ prodigy Cole Plante: “Music is always there for you”
When Cole Plante starts to DJ, you’d never guess he’s only 17. His hands move over the mixing board with the confidence of someo...
A littleBit rock ‘n’ roll: Reggie Watts rocks the newly launched SynthKit, and electronic music goes mini-modular
Above: Reggie Watts demonstrates the littleBits SynthKit For the last week, the internet has been grooving to the video above of Reggie Watt...
Silesian, the 103rd language on TED.com, and the story behind it
By Krystian Aparta, as told to Kate Torgovnick Silesian is a Slavic language spoken by about 500,000 people in a region of Poland known as S...
My City: Life in Christchurch, New Zealand, a city experiencing earthquake-induced PTSD
New Zealand is located on a continental plate boundary, so earthquakes aren’t unexpected. But no one was ready for the quake that hit ...
Christchurch in pictures: Life after a devastating earthquake
Christchurch-based Danny Squires is director of Space Craft Systems and co-founder of WikiHouse/NZ, a global project aiming to make it poss...
Drones to deliver medicine and food? Drones for disaster relief? 6 ways a physical internet could do good
Andreas Raptopoulos and his colleagues at Matternet are attempting to create a network of drones that operate like the internet, only for ta...