Remembering Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, passed away today after suffering from a stroke. The longest-...
New playlist: Everything you thought … was wrong
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, ...
TEDWeekends explores the truth about medical studies
At TEDMED 2012, Ben Goldacre shared a startling reality: that doctors are not able to read all the studies conducted on a pharmaceutical bef...
From A-ha to OK Go: A museum exhibit all about the music video
In the early ‘80s, before MTV turned its attention to reality TV, David Bowie, Madonna and the Pretenders lit up small screens, using a new ...
In short: Dragonflies that amaze, the secret of your unique breathprint
Some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: First: Dragonflies are beautiful, deadly and have weird...
No art, no life: Fellows Friday with Cyrus Kabiru
Cyrus Kabiru crafts striking, whimsical, colourful pieces — most famously his one-of-a-kind spectacles, C-STUNNERS — from recycl...
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...
How did supercomputer Watson beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings? Experts discuss.
Perhaps you know Ken Jennings by name, perhaps you simply know him as “that guy with the winning streak on Jeopardy.” In 2004, this trivia ...
I traveled the length of the Keystone XL Pipeline: A Q&A with TED Book author Steven Mufson
The Keystone XL pipeline, which has been proposed to transport oil the 1700 miles from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast, is something of a Ror...