A Scrabble board of TED Fellows
While the majority of the TED Fellows headed to TED2013 to give talks on their incredible work, a smaller group headed to TEDActive, represe...
Sharing makes the city go ‘round: A Q&A with TED Book essayist Emily Badger
Do city people really like to share more? Emily Badger of The Atlantic Cities suggests a new and fascinating phenomenon in urban areas ̵...
10 more communities turned Inside Out by TED Prize winner JR
JR is an artist with a desire to transform our collective streets — from French public houses to Brazilian favelas. As he describes in...
A visit to Ron Finley’s LA garden — plus 5 more TED Talks about growing your own food
In today’s TED Talk, guerilla gardner Ron Finley tells the story of how he was issued a citation, and then a warrant for his arrest, a...
Can limitations make you more creative? A Q&A with artist Phil Hansen
Phil Hansen has tattooed bananas, drawn a portrait on stacked Starbucks cups and created a Jimi Hendrix portrait out of matches, which he th...
Cities without highways: A Q&A with TED Books essayist Diana Lind
In the 1950s, 3 out of every 10 people on the planet lived in a city. Today, that ratio has nearly doubled — and the United Nations pr...
10 talks on creatures from the deep
Imagine a squid so big that, when sprawled out, it is the size of a two-story house. Edith Widder has now seen this enormous ocean creature,...
Learn more about ocean filmmaker Mike deGruy
On February 4, 2012, ocean filmmaker and educator Mike deGruy was killed in a helicopter crash while on assignment in Australia, along with ...
Before the Hole in the Wall: A Q&A with 2013 TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra
Last week, education researcher Sugata Mitra won the first-ever $1 million TED Prize to build his School in the Cloud. Prior to his TED Priz...