My City: The urban jungle of Sao Paulo, as seen by biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira
Juliana Ferreira is not a city person. Although she grew up just outside of São Paulo — the largest city in the largest country in Sou...
The internet, the perfect tool for the surveillance state? Further reading (and watching) on the state of digital privacy
“We already knew this.” “It’s necessary for the War on Terror.” “Other countries are doing it too.” “But I have nothing to hide.” These are ...
Surfers who stayed: The video documentary “We Are All Radioactive”
Autumn and Yuji are surfers who fell in love on the beach of Motoyoshi, a beautiful spot in Japan above Sendai where northern and southern c...
TED News in Brief: A timelapse of 6,000 portraits, and a novel about botany
Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot of TED-related news items in the ether. Here, some highlights: TED Prize winner JR (watch his talk) ...
A promising first step for those with spinal cord injury: Further reading on electrical stimulation and how it’s helped rats (and one human!) walk again
Grégoire Courtine and the scientists in his lab helped a paralyzed rat learn to walk again, voluntarily, through a treatment that combined d...
TED Talks to cheer you up on a bad day
It’s a widely documented fact: bad days are cumulative. They begin with pouring yourself a bowl of cereal, only to find that you’re out of m...
My 10 favorite “Before I die” responses: Candy Chang celebrates the release of her book
When artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang first installed “Before I Die” — a public artwork that invites passers-by to share ...
Translation by collaboration: A translators workshop in the Balkans
“In this place, you can connect to people that have been drawn apart for years by nationalists and the war. You can put them together in the...
Cartels as businesses, terrorism as a brand, gang violence as an epidemic: 4 talks for rethinking how to stop violence
Rodrigo Canales begins today’s talk by bringing us to a very confusing peace march. After a battle between Mexican law enforcement and the d...