You too can be happy. Really. A Q&A with Shawn Achor
“We think we have to be successful, then we’ll be happier. But the real problem is our brains work in the opposite order,”...
5 unconventional maps to get lost in
From the earliest days of human exploration we’ve made progressively more accurate and sophisticated maps. Maps help us find our way a...
TED rolls out iOS7 app
Apple’s iOS7 launched this morning, and on it, our new TED app. Below, we asked our in-house product development lead Thaniya Keereepart abo...
TED News in Brief: Jeopardy turns 30, Thandie Newton launches beauty blog that rejects ‘otherness’
Over the past week, we’ve noticed a lot of fascinating TED-related news items. Here, some highlights: The TV show Jeopardy turns 30 this wee...
TEDxers remix the TEDCity2.0 poster from a kit of parts
What is the city of the future? What will it look like? How will it come to be? This weekend, from Taipei to Melbourne to Mexico City, over ...
What is it about bees? Three experts on why they’re fascinating, why they’re dying, what can save them
In 1945, there were 4.5 million hives of bees in the United States. Today, there are just about 2 million. It’s been a subtle decline over t...
Voices of violence: Photojournalist Jon Lowenstein captures narratives of violence in Chicago’s South Side
What is the effect of violence on a life’s narrative? TED Fellow and photojournalist Jon Lowenstein has lived in the South Side of Chi...
6 basic tips for better online security, from TED speaker James Lyne
In today’s talk, Lyne talks cybercrime, revealing some of the new methods that hackers and malicious code writers are using to grab our data...
TED Weekends celebrates investigative journalists
From Bob Woodward and Charles Bernstein to Upton Sinclair and Nellie Bly, investigative journalists have shaped the course of history by unc...