9 memorable, manic moments of jealousy in literature
“When we feel jealous, we tell ourselves a story. We tell ourselves a story about other people’s lives,” says Parul Sehgal, an editor for Th...
My City: Why Shanghai is the ultimate hackerspace
In 2005, at the start of my first visit to Shanghai, the city clothed itself in a growling thunderstorm. When dusk fell and neon began to sc...
Shanghai in pictures: entrepreneur David Li on the city as hackerspace
David Li has lived in Shanghai since 2003, when the Taiwan-born consultant and entrepreneur moved to the city to take advantage of a place i...
“Orange Is The New Black,” indeed: Piper Kerman gives a TEDx Talk on life in prison
Many of us in the TED office have been in Orange Is the New Black withdrawal. We inhaled the first two seasons of the Netflix series, and ha...
CNN names its top 10 thinkers of 2013, and 7 of them have given TED Talks
How do you pick the 10 thinkers in the world whose ideas are making the biggest ripples? It’s a task sort of akin to asking: which are...
TED News in Brief: Chip Kidd writes a design book for kids, Young-ha Kim on spirituality in South Korea
Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot of TED-related news items in the ether. Here, some highlights: Chip Kidd (watch his TED Talk) has ju...
Why Africa is booming: Further watching and reading on the economic turnaround of the continent
In today’s talk, economist Charles Robertson turns up the heat on an idea that’s been simmering for several years: that Africa is seeing rap...
8 hilarious IKEA memes, videos and homage websites
After 25 years working in sustainability, Steve Howard made a surprising move: he went to work for IKEA. In today’s talk, he explains why by...
X Marks the Spot: A stunning event in the Indian Himalayas, plus this week’s TEDx talks
In the remote town of Leh, tucked away in the Indian Himalayas, a group of 100 TEDx’ers gathered among the stunning valleys and sweeping mou...