Rock out to Wikipedia
In the spirit of today’s euphonious talk from Beardyman, and our companion piece of the weirdest sounds to grace the TED stage, celebr...
X marks the spot: Hackers turn hijackers, plus this week’s TEDx Talks
This week, during a computer security conference in Las Vegas, researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller demonstrated how easily they cou...
The 10 strangest sounds heard on the TED stage
What is possible with the human voice? Beardyman asks in today’s talk. He demonstrates with at least fifty manipulations of his voice – from...
INSIDE OUT turns images into global action from the North Pole to Malawi
Since TED Prize winner JR launched his INSIDE OUT project in 2011, thousands of people have contributed their faces to the world’s largest p...
Unusual clocks and the TED2014 talent search event, TED@NYC
Designer Max Schmidt’s Breathing Clock is a fascinating object. It doesn’t have hands — rather it inflates and deflates to show the pr...
A TED Talk inspires government change in North Vancouver
[ted id=1119] In his TED Talk, Dave Meslin wondered: What would happen if Nike advertised sneakers in the same way local governments announc...
TED News in Brief: Chrystia Freeland runs for office, Matt Damon tells a TED-related story
Chrystia Freeland, TEDGlobal 2013 speaker and the author of the book Plutocrats (read more about her talk), has announced her plan to run fo...
Julie Taymor and other creative minds share how they work
Julie Taymor, the director behind Frida, Across the Universe and the Broadway reimagining of The Lion King, creates productions that tickle ...
6 mind-bending talks about biologically inspired art
Art so often seeks to capture the beauty of the natural world — from cave drawings of animals, to paintings of landscapes, to sculptur...