The 10 coolest things that have happened at TEDActive
TEDActive is like TED, only with a few buttons loosened and its hair let down. An annual simulcast of the TED conference held two hours away...
Four very fresh ideas about air conditioning
[ted id=1598] Air conditioning used to be a luxury — but as Doris Kim Sung points out in this talk from TEDxUSC, modernized society ha...
Calling all teens: Become a data detective
Just by living our plugged-in lives, each of us is producing a constant stream of data. Little snippets are left behind of what we search, w...
Chris Anderson answers questions like “What’s the fairest criticism of TED”?
Earlier today, TED curator Chris Anderson sat down for an online Q&A with the readers of Gizmodo.com. They asked a wide variety of quest...
Dennis Hong debuts a robot that dances to “Gangnam Style”
Dennis Hong shared seven species of robots in his talk at TEDxNASA 2009, from the soccer-playing DARwIn to the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR. In th...
Journalist John Hockenberry explores the rise of the climate change skeptics movement
For anyone watching the three presidential debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, two words were surprisingly absent: “climate change...
Growing up a child of the state: Lemn Sissay tells much more of his story
[ted id=1596 width=560 height=315] Harry Potter, Pip of Great Expectations, Superman, Cinderella, Lisbeth Salander, Batman, Jane Eyre, Matil...
Ads Worth Spreading turns 3 and releases a report
At the AICP Conference in New York this morning, TED announced the third cycle of Ads Worth Spreading, our initiative to find the 10 most co...
Previously on the Internet … with Thu-Huong Ha
Every week at TED’s New York office, one media team staffer shares a handful of things on the web that intrigued, shocked or amused them. We...