The importance of preserving cultural artifacts: A look at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Islamic Wing
[ted id=1579 width=560 height=315] Museum exhibitions offer a complex conundrum. While museum-goers walk through, looking at art and objects...
How a contortionist plays music
We are thoroughly impressed with contortionist Anudari, who performed last week at TEDxUlaanbaatar in Mongolia. She has been studying contor...
How you too can build your own computer
[ted id=1570]As computers have gotten more complex, even tech literate users have become detached from the basics of how they function. This...
In short: Get ready for tonight’s debate, listen to the Earth’s strange song
Enjoy these fascinating reads from across the internet: Tonight brings the first U.S. presidential debate of the 2012 election season, and J...
‘The One World Schoolhouse’: Salman Khan’s vision for education, in his new book
“The One World Schoolhouse fleshes out the story and vision that began with my talk at TED,” Salman Khan tells the TED Blog. His new book, o...
Previously on the Internet … with Haley Hoffman
Every week at TED’s New York office, one media team staffer shares 5 things on the web that intrigued, shocked or amused them. We call it: P...
Mind Amplifier: New TED ebook author asks whether digital media can make us smarter
Are we becoming blank-eyed cyberzombies, thanks to the internet and all the tech tools we obsess about every day? Instead of asking whether ...
Music, the mind, and medicine: A Q&A with Robert Gupta
Can music be a medical instrument? In a moving talk from TEDMed, Robert Gupta reveals that it certainly can be. He gives as an example the w...
How Salvatore Iaconesi has started a movement for open-source medical files
In early September, data artist and TED Fellow Salvatore Iaconesi announced to the world that he had brain cancer. And he refused to let his...