TED Radio Hour’s new season to premiere on March 1
Mark your calendars, please: TED Radio Hour returns to the NPR airwaves on Friday, March 1. After a popular first season — named the B...
You’re a beautiful crowd! 7 moments of audience participation from TED
There are certain perils to watching a TED Talk live from the audience – occasionally you’ll be asked a stumper of a philosophical question ...
TED Fellow Shalini Kantayya bravely shares her story of sexual assault in India
As protests roll through India, calling for punishment of six men who brutally gang raped a 23-year-old woman on a public bus in December wi...
8 talks on fighting corruption
When CL Financial — the largest financial institution in Trinidad and Tobago — collapsed in January of 2009, its bailout was far...
5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think
Economist Keith Chen starts today’s talk with an observation: to say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more ...
Chris Anderson livetweets: What makes an outstanding TED Talk? What are the challenges ahead for TED? And more…
TED curator Chris Anderson took to Twitter earlier today, spending an hour answering any question thrown his way by a TED enthusiast. The qu...
Saving for a rainy day: Keith Chen on language that forecasts weather — and behavior
By Keith Chen How are China, Estonia and Germany different from India, Greece and the UK? To an economist, one answer is obvious: savings ra...
TED Fellow Hakeem Oluseyi talks sonic booms and asteroids on NBC’s The Ed Show
As Russian scientists gather fragments of the 10-ton meteor that streaked across the sky on Friday at 33,000 miles per hour, TED Fellow Hake...
7 talks on monkeys, and 7 talks on mind control
Miguel Nicolelis begins today’s talk by showing you what a brainstorm looks and sounds like. “This is 100 brain cells firing,” says Nicoleli...