How big is the ocean? A summer-appropriate TED-Ed lesson
“Imagine yourself standing on a beach, looking out at the ocean — waves crashing against the shore, blue as far as your eyes can see.&...
9 great talks to watch for Video Games Day
Gamers, unite! Today, July 8, is officially known as Video Games Day. Whether you lose hours to your Xbox or stay glued to your smart phone ...
Bjorn Lomborg is still thinking about “evil economics”
In 2005, Bjorn Lomborg bounced onto the TED stage in Monterey to challenge the assembled audience to think about “the biggest problems...
Unreasonable at sea: Fellows Friday with Cesar Harada, who circumnavigated the globe with Protei
[ted id=1499] In January of 2013, TED Fellow Cesar Harada, inventor of an open-source sailing robot, set sail on a four-month, 14-country ro...
Your weekend reading: The purpose of life, an excellent mushroom timelapse
Interesting, informative, bizarre. Here’s a round-up of interwebs reading from the past few weeks: Mushrooms are not at the top of my ...
X Marks the Spot: Questions of trust in this week’s TEDx talks
Ivan Krastev’s TED book asks probing and difficult questions about democracy in societies that do not trust their leaders. For example, whil...
6 talks involving a banjo
Jonny Mizzone didn’t come from Alabama with a banjo on his knee. No, this 11-year-old virtuoso hails from the state of New Jersey, where he ...
The new revolution in Egypt and why I wanted to feminize it: An essay
TED Fellow Bahia Shehab is an Egyptian artist who, at TEDGlobal 2012, shared her love of the Arabic phrase “No and a thousand times no,” bol...
Remembering Doug Engelbart, with two talks about his visionary work
Computer visionary Doug Engelbart died on Tuesday evening, at age 88. One of the pioneers of the Internet and graphic user interfaces, Engel...