Daily rituals performed in a flood: A TED Fellow is crowdsourcing rituals for a unique performance
TED Fellow Lars Jan, the director of the multi-disciplinary art lab Early Morning Opera, is seeking everyday personal rituals from collabora...
How Malawi is improving a terrible maternal mortality rate through good design
By Courtney E. Martin & John Cary Pregnancy is supposed to be about life. And yet, every day, 800 women across the globe die from preven...
Gallery: iO Tillett Wright examines the 50+ shades of gay
iO Tillett Wright remembers the moment she decided to start living as a boy — age 6 when the kids at school barked at her that girls w...
Meet the translator: Laszlo Kereszturi, who brings you TED Talks in Hungarian and Romanian
TED Talks are available in 94 languages, from Albanian to Vietnamese, thanks to the tireless work of our translators. So far, more than 8,50...
10 places where anyone can learn to code
Teens, tweens and kids are often referred to as “digital natives.” Having grown up with the Internet, smartphones and tablets, they’r...
Announcing: The new City 2.0 website launches today. Share your stories.
In the next 30 years, two-thirds of our planet’s population will live in cities. Have you ever tried to envision the cities of the future? C...
On our reading list: Al Gore takes a look at The Future
Al Gore posits an intriguing question in his newest book, on shelves tomorrow, January 29: can we change the future? But this book isn’t abo...
Charity Tillemann-Dick shares the harrowing story of living between life and death
At TEDMED 2010, opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick told the story of a revolutionary, life-changing surgery — a double lung transplan...
Talks to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice
Two hundred years ago today, Jane Austen published Pride and Prejudice, the classic tale of Elizabeth Bennett. Though the book has now sold ...