From abstraction to the vibrant female form: Fellows Friday with Sharmistha Ray
Artist Sharmistha Ray has spent her life moving between India, the Middle East and the United States, discovering, layer by layer, her own s...
Man watches 296 TED Talks in a week. We ask him why.
Chris Bailey might be the most productive man you’d ever hope to meet. At least, that’s his goal. In May of this year, he committed to a yea...
A Ford Fiesta becomes a Transformer: A look at Hetain Patel’s latest work
Today’s talk isn’t so much a “talk” as a hilarious topsy-turvy performance by Hetain Patel that reflects on an identity forged as much from ...
The future of facial recognition: 7 fascinating facts
Alessandro Acquisti thinks we are about to have an Adam and Eve moment, where all of a sudden we realize that we aren’t wearing any clothes....
My City: Khurram Siddiqi on how not to get lost in Lahore, Pakistan
By Nicola Twilley “In Lahore, you don’t get lost: you start off lost,” explains Khurram Siddiqi. “It’s a condition, ...
Lahore in pictures: Khurram Siddiqi on the heart of Pakistan’s major city
By Nicola Twilley Technology professor Khurram Siddiqi enjoys a complicated relationship with his hometown of Lahore, Pakistan. For one thin...
Required watching for any TED speaker: The science of stage fright
One thing can strike fear into the heart of the fiercest warrior, the most powerful CEO and the smartest person in any given room: having to...
David Kelley on the need for creative confidence
In 2012, IDEO founder and longtime Stanford professor David Kelley took the TED stage in Long Beach and shared a deeply personal story. It w...
Jawdropping views of cozy homes built in an abandoned office tower, a lagoon, a recycling heap and more
Iwan Baan is not as interested in what architects build as he is in the beautiful ways that people appropriate the spaces once the planners ...