The making of the TED2014 theater: an early view
The TED2014 theater will be something audacious: a theater designed specifically for talks. TED stages in the past have had thrusts and thre...
Sonic insanity: 10 TED videos all about beatboxing
[ted id=1792] Today’s incredible talk contains insane beats, bizarre sound effects, voiceovers in the style of multiple eras and instruments...
Envision the world in 11 dimensions: A TED-Ed lesson to blow your 3D mind
In our three-dimensional world, all we can experience is length, width and height. Unless one of your friends is a hypercube, it’s hard to i...
TED News in Brief: Remembering Elaine Morgan, the potential of a solar-powered plane, and more
Writer Elaine Morgan has died at age 92. Perhaps best known for her book The Descent of Woman, at TEDGlobal 2009 she made her case for the &...
Andrew Mwenda on progress in Africa
In 2007, journalist Andrew Mwenda took the stage at TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania, and decried the symptomatic disease affecting his home co...
Carl Kasell’s dramatic LOLCats reading on TED Radio Hour, visualized
Carl Kasell of NPR hosts the show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. And in the video above, he uses his classic radio voice to narrate L...
8 talks about harnessing the power of bacteria for good
When you think of bacteria, the word ‘heroic’ hardly pops to mind. Bacteria don’t have the best reputation (case in point: the poop problem)...
Lessons in cross-cultural living: An anecdotal exploration of data from a Persian-Jewish-Southern American
In today’s talk, Pico Iyer looks at the complexity of the question, “Where do you come from?” If the question is code for, “Where are your f...
Security experts Bruce Schneier and Mikko Hypponen on the NSA, PRISM and why we should be worried
As Edward Snowden is linked to one country after the next, the media has its eye fixed on where he will next request asylum. (Today, it̵...