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...
Remembering Roger Ebert, beloved film critic
[ted id=1121] Roger Ebert, the film critic who guided American movie selections for decades, has died, a family friend revealed to newspaper...
See self-assembly and 4D printing in action
A part on the outside of a spaceship that morphs, rather than requiring an astronaut to perform a risky maneuver. Plumbing pipes able to ben...
The TED Global lineup, as tweeted by you
A monk, a “gentleman thief ” and a drones ecologist. These are just a few of the speakers who’ll be at TEDGlobal 2013, the...
5 great stories with double lives as allegories
“Once upon a time, there was a place called Lesterland,” Lawrence Lessig begins today’s talk. “Of its 311 million people, it turns out 144,0...
Watch TEDxChange live, starting at 9am (PDT) today
TEDxChange, themed “Positive Disruption,” kicks off shortly — at 9am (PDT) at the Gates Foundation campus in Seattle, Washington ̵...
How we can make elections about the people, not just funders: An excerpt of Lawrence Lessig’s new TED Book, “Lesterland”
Before we can tackle climate change, financial reform, education reform or, well, anything, there is a single issue that we in the United St...
9 transportation devices that could make your commute far more fun
When engineering grad students Sanjay Dastoor, John Ulmen and Matthew Tran met at Stanford University, they lamented the fact that there was...
Introducing the TEDGlobal 2013 speaker lineup
Few sensations feel better than when your mind does a backflip and, all of a sudden, you are suddenly able to see things in new and unexpect...