Three reasons to watch TEDxChange tomorrow
TEDxChange, happening this Wednesday, April 3, is a global conversation on some of the most pressing and intractable health and equity issue...
Video: Haptic-feedback shoes guide blind walkers
The footage in this video — which shows a man, a woman and a teenager walking down paths, around curves, up stairs and across streets ...
A note to the TED community on the withdrawal of the TEDxWestHollywood license
Last week, TED withdrew the TEDx license for the TEDxWestHollywood event. We wanted to write a short note to the community to explain why we...
Angela Patton holds second father-daughter dance in prison, sets sights on a documentary
It’s not the norm to see pink balloons, brightly colored dresses and sequined shoes in the halls of the Richmond City Jail. But on March 16,...
How a dead duck changed the TED audience’s life
In the days leading up to TED2013, we at the TED Blog revealed the best props at TEDs past and showed you the speakers who’d brought animals...
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...
TEDWeekends thinks you should rethink your sanity
At TED2012, Jon Ronson wove a mind-bending tale that asks: How can we truly tell who is a psychopath? What’s the line between crazy and sane...
In short: An upworthy birthday, death in the 20th century
Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: Happy Birthday, Upworthy! Here are 11 lessons our...
Watch Bryan Stevenson on “Moyers & Company”
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/62923489 w=400&h=300] Bryan Stevenson, who gave the powerhouse talk “We need to talk about an injustice” at ...