Forces of Change: A Q&A about a TEDGlobal session exploring world-shaping shifts emerging from Asia & Africa
Only one thing is constant in the world — that things will continually change and evolve. Session 9 of TEDGlobal 2013, called “...
Energy from your feet: When sidewalks and dance floors become energy sources
The average person takes about 150 million steps in a lifetime. What if we could turn all that movement into energy? Two innovators are work...
When self-identity can change: Q&A with Charles Limb
This morning’s TED Talk from Andrew Solomon asks a deep question about parents and children. Inspired by his own upbringing, Solomon w...
How to survive without air. Or, David Blaine: visualized!
Check this out: a rather cool visualization of a TED Talk, courtesy of the Brazilian culture and science magazine Superinteressante. Each mo...
TED’s updated iOS app lets you control download setting, get push notifications
Thanks to your feedback and suggestions, we’ve made a few tweaks in our latest iOS app (Version 2.1.1) that will help you view videos ...
New playlist: Plantastic!
Anyone who lives in a major city, where pollen-thick summer air seems incompatible with the dearth of trees, it can be easy to forget the fa...
TED Weekends dives into the deep sea
Underwater, there’s a world full of the bioluminescent and colorfully firework-like creatures. This is what David Gallo showed us in his cla...
Near Rotterdam? Come celebrate Dead Duck Day on June 5
A heads-up, if you happen to be near Rotterdam, in the Netherlands — ornithologist Kees Moeliker (watch his TED Talk) and friends will...
Your weekend reading: Prime number pairs, the unanswerable question of waking life, and much more
A few fun links from this week’s Internet, so you don’t get bogged down with all that summer reading you’re about to do » ...