War stories: Read Janine di Giovanni’s powerful coverage of conflicts around the world
[ted id=1651]Journalist Janine di Giovanni has covered wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Iraq and most recently in Syria &#...
Goodbye to sugar? Homaro Cantu on how to trick your taste buds
Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche can only be described as the mad scientists of food. These two pioneer unique food delivery systems — think...
Packable philanthropy: Donate a TEDx in a Box
What is a TEDx in a Box, you ask? It’s a suitcase stuffed with everything an economically marginalized community needs to host their very ow...
Which TED Talks were the hardest to translate?
With the help of more than 8,000 volunteer translators, TED Talks have been subtitled and translated into more than 90 languages. But the tr...
New playlists: What doctors worry about and Can you believe your eyes?
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, ...
TED Weekends ponders the wonder of life
Human beings: we are approximately 100 trillion cells, and yet so much more. In his talk “Conception to birth — visualized,” Alexander...
In Short: A cookbook to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims, the BBC covers TEDxSanaa
Enjoy a sampling of the stories from around the internet that captured our interest this week: The gorgeous digital cookbook above, All Hand...
Read about our most-commented TED Conversation yet
Australian Morgan Barnes posted a TED Conversation discussion question in December that was on many people’s minds: “Has the time come for t...
Rare gifts: Fellows Friday with C Jimmy Lin
Millions of people, many of them children, suffer from “orphan” diseases — illnesses so rare that no infrastructure exists...