Jamie Oliver gears up for Food Revolution Day on May 17
Tomorrow is a holiday, and one you can celebrate simply by eating. Jamie Oliver, who won the TED Prize in 2010, has declared May 17 as Food ...
21 everyday objects you can hack, from a bacon sandwich to a pencil to your cat
MaKey MaKey — the kit that encourages you to rig a banana piano or control a video game with pencil-etchings — was one of the mo...
Talks to watch as you buy tickets for “Star Trek Into Darkness”
Last night, many boldly ventured where no man had gone before: to see Star Trek Into Darkness, which opened in some theaters at midnight. Th...
I used to think I couldn’t get out of hell: Chicago public school students react to TEDxYouth@Midwest
Earlier this month, 450 Chicago public school sophomores and juniors, plus 120 of their teachers, crowded into the city’s Harris Theater for...
Urinalysis: There’s now an app for that
It may not be glamorous, but it’s true – each year, urinary tract infections lead to more than 9 million doctor visits in the United States ...
Broccoli takes a magical journey in the trailer for Mary Roach’s new book
Mary Roach is the kind of journalist who gets excited about the details of embalming, court cases involving ghosts and the mechanics of how ...
Bill Gates, designer? Yes. Public Interest Design honors 100 global thinkers who are designing social good
Good design has the power to improve lives. Yesterday, Public Interest Design — a group dedicated to design for social good — re...
10 stunning images from Liu Bolin, the disappearing man
Liu Bolin’s images invite a game akin to Where’s Waldo?. In some of the Chinese artist’s incredible photos, it’s cle...
Meet the translator: Khalid Marbou, who brings you TED Talks in Arabic
TED Talks are available in 100 languages, from Albanian to Vietnamese, thanks to the tireless work of our volunteer translators. So far, mor...