TED Weekends: Gaming for life
The old and tired stereotype: a 20-something man sits on the couch in his parent’s basement, his shirt untucked and chin unshaven, as he exc...
Your weekend reading: Our mysterious Internet
A look at what’s been going on in this mysterious web of ours the past few weeks: What…the…is this crazy-looking cocoon? H...
TED Radio Hour: The Next Greatest Generation?
This week’s TED Radio Hour tries to pinpoint what exactly makes a millennial a millennial. Growing up in a world marked by a new set o...
X Marks the Spot: A wristband that detects seizures, plus this week’s TEDx Talks
18-year-old Rick Housley is developing a wristband for people with epilepsy that is capable of detecting seizures and alerting a list of con...
A TED Fellow confesses to having only $5 to their name …
At the recent TED Fellows Retreat in Whistler, Canada, artist Candy Chang set up an interactive art piece called Confessions that invited th...
TED photo challenge: Show us your city’s skyline
Cities are a hot topic at the moment. As more and more of the world’s population gravitates toward living in them, people from all pro...
Gallery: Stunning images from Alexa Meade that blur the line between paint and photograph
Alexa Meade doesn’t paint on canvas. No, as she explains in today’s talk, she paints on something very different — human skin. “If I w...
8 talks with ideas for healthier cities
Cities, traditionally, have not been the healthiest of places. The spread of diseases, sanitation issues, pollution — these things acc...
TED News in Brief: Bill Nye joins the cast of “Dancing with the Stars,” Isaac Mizrahi moves on from fashion
Bill Nye the Science Guy (watch his TED-Ed lesson) will be joining the cast of “Dancing with the Stars.” New York Magazine says of Nye’s inc...