Why belonging matters: Fellows Friday with Chelsea Shields Strayer
How did human emotions evolve to help us survive? For the last decade, cultural anthropologist Chelsea Shields Strayer has studied the indig...
What a girl wants? Fewer Photoshopped images of women in magazines, for starters
15-year old Julia Bluhm is a ballet dancer and body image activist. That’s right. Ballet, an activity that conjures images of super slim pri...
The next evolutions of thumb wrestling
No one is exactly sure who invented thumb wrestling. According to Wikipedia, Julian Koenig — the advertising copywriter who helped coi...
Daring kids to ask big questions: 3 teachers who entered our SOLE Challenge win a trip to TEDYouth
In a classroom in Ontario, a class of 9th graders learned the book Siddhartha, not by listening to lectures from their teacher, but by askin...
Nairobi in pictures: Juliana Rotich shares her favorite spots in the Kenyan capital city
Juliana Rotich didn’t grow up in Nairobi, but the Kenyan capital has been her official full-time home since 2011. Now, she describes t...
My City: Juliana Rotich on Ushahidi, BRCK and life in Nairobi
Juliana Rotich was not expecting our interview to end in tears. Neither was I. But on reflection, we were both completely ok with it. After ...
What I’d tell my teenage self: Life and career advice from the TED staff
Four hundred middle and high school students will fill the TEDYouth auditorium this Saturday — and many of them will be put straight t...
Can we end pandemics in our lifetime? Larry Brilliant suggests we are getting much closer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQBuZVQruRY&w=640&h=360] By tracking social media, it turns out, we can get much better at r...
7 TED Talks on the need to encourage entrepreneurship
Could unemployment be a factor that leads to terrorism? In today’s talk, peace strategist Mohamed Ali (not to be confused with the box...