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With just two weeks to go before the 2012 presidential election in the US, eyes around the world are on the contest between Barack Obama and...
[ted id=1597 width=560 height=315] A plate of food overrun by roaches. A blood-encrusted scab. The squish of dog poo under one’s shoe. In th...
Just two Tuesdays from today, Americans will head to the polls and vote for their President. But why is Tuesday the anointed day? In this hi...
[ted id=1239 width=560 height=315] Last October, we posted this TEDTalk given at TEDGlobal 2011 by plastic engineer Mike Biddle, Founder and...
[ted id=1593 width=560 height=315] Pankaj Ghemawat coined a new phrase in his talk from TEDGlobal: “globaloney.” In other words, Ghemawat ta...
Since TEDx launched in 2009, more than 5,000 events have been held in 137 far-flung countries. So what is it like to throw an event? We aske...
The Great White Continent. The Frozen Desert. The Real Land Down Under. Antarctica might not be the easiest of places to travel to but, in t...
Last Sunday, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped out of a helium balloon from over 24 miles in the sky, and shattered world records b...
Political economist, author and educator Sophal Ear’s family escaped from the Killing Fields, a story he related in a moving 2009 TEDT...