Playing with sound in silence: Fellows Friday with Christine Sun Kim
Through visual art, composition and performance, deaf artist Christine Sun Kim explores ways of transmuting sound and silence to come to ter...
Tearjerker Ads Worth Spreading winner earns adoption rights for same-sex couple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThzdsnXeE28 Expedia’s remarkably moving short film, “Find Your Understanding,” tells the true story of man na...
Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones
There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “h...
Grey’s Anatomy has a TED moment
Has a TED Talk ever happened live from a hospital? Well, not in real life — but yes on television. Last night on Grey’s Anatomy,...
Op-Ed: The still-tolerated gender bias in science
I just might have the best job in the world. As a particle physicist and professor at Yale, I am a happy cog on the wheel of humanity, tryin...
TED Radio Hour explores what happens when we make mistakes
It happens to the best of us: as hard as we try to be perfect, on occasion, we mess up. Today’s TED Radio Hour explores how we deal with mis...
George Takei’s TEDx Talk: On “Star Trek,” musicals and Japanese American internment
George Takei, best known as Captain Sulu of Star Trek, says it’s been his “lifelong dream” to make it to Broadway. He came...
Further readings in game theory: How it applies to marriage, kidney donation chains and government gridlock
[ted id=1701] How do we negotiate when to sell a stock, whether to rat out a partner in crime, how to play a poker hand, or what to ask for ...
A critical eye on Keystone XL Pipeline in this TED Book
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would stretch 1,700 miles from Western Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. And it has become a touchstone f...