How to trust intelligently
“The aim [in society] is to have more trust. Well frankly, I think that’s a stupid aim,” says Baroness Onora O’Neill...
TED@NYC: TED’s talent search heads to Manhattan
Remember TED Talks by Joshua Prager, John McWhorter, Sleepy Man Banjo Boys and Hannah Brencher? All fantastic finds from previous talent sea...
In praise of ignorance
“Science, we generally are told, is a very well-ordered mechanism for understanding the world, for gaining facts, for gaining data,...
Youth of New Orleans: TED wants you!
This year’s annual TEDYouth event, themed “The Spark,” is moving south. On Saturday, November 16, we’ll bring togeth...
Elizabeth Loftus on embedding false memories in U.S. soldiers
“We can’t reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,” declares psychologist Elizabeth Loftus in today’s...
Want to know more about the unreliable nature of memory? Read this
Elizabeth Loftus studies false memories. As she describes in her TED Talk, The fiction of memory, she has implanted erroneous memories of ch...
Act fast, start cheap, reimagine your city: Notes & quotes from TEDCity2.0 (afternoon)
Anyone in the room here today, at the glossy Times Center in Times Square, has been affected by the imagination and tenacity of Janette Sadi...
TED Weekends examines capitalism and charity
Capitalism and charity. A seemingly paradoxical combination. But could running charities like businesses foster the innovation and problem-s...
X marks the spot: The unique places and spaces of TEDx events
Oh, the places you’ll go with TEDx. This week, we’ve been exploring everything beyond the urban jungle. We followed an explorer to the dark ...