Unorthodox new pets in the TED office
We at TED have a new addition to the office: a space-age ant farm! The Ant Column Cylinder Ant Farm arrived at our office last week. It’s a ...
TEDxCERN is about to begin — watch along
For the past 59 years, the European Organization for Nuclear Research — better known as CERN — has been a nucleus of innovation,...
This week’s best questions, ideas and debates from TED Conversations
TED Conversations is a unique space where any member of this community can get feedback on an idea, pose an interesting question, or start a...
A possible answer for preventing sewage from flowing into waterways in extreme weather
During Hurricane Sandy, 10 billion gallons of raw sewage were released into the rivers, canals and bays of New York and New Jersey — a...
Two ways of thinking about social media: digital tattoos and virtual shadows
At concerts, lighters once swayed in the air during poignant moments, the audience belting out lyrics together in a moment of catharsis. Tod...
When our private lives become public online … will it make us more or less tolerant?
“I’m not arguing that this stuff shouldn’t exist,” says Juan Enriquez. “I’m saying that precisely because this stuff is so powerful, we shou...
Does documenting your life online keep you from actually living it?: An excerpt from the new TED Book, Our Virtual Shadow
By Damon Brown The morning of our wedding, my wife and I only had one major discussion: Should we bring our cell phones? She loved Facebook ...
How the TED Machine was built
When illustrator/storyteller Oliver Jeffers and animator/woodworker Mac Premo get together, sketchbooks travel 60,000 miles, suitcases wande...
6 reasons to watch TEDxCERN this Friday
You have probably heard of CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the ...