Gardening tips from TED-Ed and some green-thumbed TED speakers
For many, the summer means a different kind of work — gardening. Whether you have twenty acres of lush meadow, a rooftop oasis in the ...
Marco Tempest to work with Baxter the Robot
Illusionist Marco Tempest (watch his cyber card trick and his electric take on Nikola Tesla) has a new assistant — Baxter the Robot. T...
4 talks on a strange phenomenon we all experience: consciousness
John Searle studies consciousness — which, as he points out in today’s talk, is a “curiously neglected subject in our scientific...
TED Weekends calls us to embrace nature’s wrath
“That is a part of you up there. That’s your water that helps to make the cloud, that becomes the rain, that feeds the plants, that feeds th...
6 talks to watch this Moon Day
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. Moon Day is held every July 20 to commemorate this momentous fe...
Your weekend reading: Ask a Korean about Malcolm Gladwell, plus why cynics are awesome
Some chewy food for thought this week on the Internets: The host of the blog Ask a Korean! responds to a chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s...
Nerves, bones, words: Fellows Friday with Ivana Gadjanski
Biologist, poet and fledgling entrepreneur Ivana Gadjanski has worked on using animal toxins as a possible treatment for MS, and is growing ...
Smile for the camera: A photograph of Earth is being taken from a billion miles away today
Today may go down in history as The Day the Earth Smiled. Or, at least, that is what TED speaker Carolyn Porco (watch her talk) is hoping. T...
X Marks the Spot: A Mandela Day design project, plus this week’s TEDx Talks
This week, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday. For the participants of TEDxSoweto — which took place in April in Joha...