TEDsters, get ready to play Brain Games
Your brain is three and a half pounds of tissue — and yet it’s the key to everything you experience. The National Geographic Channel s...
Talking s**t with Rose George: A Q&A about the global health issue no one wants to bring up
A single gram of poop contains 50 diseases, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasites, 100 worm eggs and 10 million viruses, by journalist Rose ...
3 talks to help you celebrate mathematician Leonhard Euler’s birthday
If you’ve Googled anything this morning, you’ve probably noticed that the site’s logo features an orb-shaped graph instead of a second ‘o,’ ...
New playlist: Listen up
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, ...
TEDWeekends traces the origin of the All-American Chinese takeout
Turns out the fortune cookie that came with your chop suey isn’t actually Chinese … and neither is the chop suey. So where did they come fro...
Your weekend reading: Simple secure passwords, an invisible brain
Some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: Super-duper useful mandatory homework: Get a secure pas...
The future unfolding: Fellows Friday with Skylar Tibbits
Skylar Tibbits makes things that assemble themselves, with potential large-scale applications from self-adjusting water pipes to self-assemb...
X marks the spot: This week’s TEDx Talks
Each week, TEDx chooses four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its di...
TED Radio Hour asks the question: Why are some people violent while others aren’t?
Are people born violent, or is violence something learned? And what can be done to keep human beings from harming one another? These are que...