Video: Opening titles for World on Its Head, Session 6 of TEDGlobal 2013
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_dwhJVq7QY&w=560&h=315] A landscape becomes a face; a face becomes a family. Converting wel...
World on Its Head: The speakers in session 6 at TEDGlobal 2013
“It’s about discarding assumptions about the Middle East, Latin America, and the way you think the world works,” Nassim Assefi d...
Timelapse: Building an arena for flying robots
Our photographer Duncan Davidson loves to shoot timelapses; before every TED, you can find him behind the scenes hiding cameras to snap away...
Wild sex: Carin Bondar at TEDGlobal 2013
When humans think about sex, we tend to categorise into male and female forms, says biologist and animal sex expert Carin Bondar. But for mi...
TEDGlobal is heading to Rio de Janeiro in 2014
Rio, here we come. Next year, TEDGlobal will be held for the first time in Latin America — in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from October 6-1...
Lessons from brain soup: Suzana Herculano-Houzel at TEDGlobal 2013
For decades, scientists said that the human brain contains 100 billion neurons. However, when neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel hunted ...
Improvised piano loveliness: Yaron Herman at TEDGlobal 2013
“Before we came on stage, I asked him, ‘What are you going to play?’ and he replied, ‘I don’t know.’R...
Introducing the RoboRoach: Greg Gage at TEDGlobal 2013
Talking as fast and fervently as a circus busker, TED Fellow Greg Gage introduces the world to RoboRoach — a kit that allows you creat...
Why haven’t we gotten rid of malaria? Sonia Shah at TEDGlobal 2013
There’s a question that’s been troubling journalist Sonia Shah since she was a child: What is malaria, and why is it killing so ...