In Short: An app of robot demos, a ruling on eyewitness testimony
Can’t get enough robot demo videos? Neither can we. The new IEEE Robots app for the iPad is full of walking, grasping, tea-making robo...
New TED Book: Tell Them I Built This
In 2009, author Emily Pilloton moved to Bertie County, North Carolina — the poorest county in the state with a population of just 20,0...
Ronda Carnegie talks Ads Worth Spreading, and why advertising is far from dead
Advertising doesn’t have to be about convincing you to buy things. Great ads, just like great movies, can inspire thought. That’s why TED cr...
TED Fellow and space archaeologist Sarah Parcak heads to ancient Rome
TED Fellow Sarah Parcak is a “space archaeologist” who uses infrared technology coupled with satellite imagery to discover previously hidden...
Touching the directions: Fellows Friday with Camille Seaman
Native American photographer Camille Seaman devotes years to her subjects, revealing the unfolding of reality over time. For the last decade...
10 spoken word performances, folded like lyrical origami
[ted id=1625 width=560 height=315] Spoken word artist Lemon Andersen begins today’s talk with the poem, “Please Don’t Take My Air Jordans,” ...
Public Interest Design names its top 100, including 16 TED alums
Great design doesn’t just look good — it has the potential to make lives easier and to enhance the public good. Public Interest Design...
A TEDx dedicated to ideas for rural communities
The TED stage features a red circular carpet and light-up letters, the look far more sleek than rustic. But at TEDxGuatavita, the stage was ...
7 ideas for streamlining the way we test pharmaceuticals
The process for testing new drugs is clunky at best. As Susan Solomon reveals in her TED Talk, drug discovery on average takes 13 years, cos...