Shea Hembrey sculpts dark matter in a new gallery show
Shea Hembrey is 100 artists in one. At TED2011, he shared how he staged an international biennial containing works from 100 artists … all of...
5 prescription drugs doctors had no idea could hurt their patients
[ted id=1575] As a doctor, Ben Goldacre likes to have all the available facts about a prescription drug before he even thinks about prescrib...
In Short: Driverless cars now legal in California, a glimpse at why people cheat
Enjoy these fascinating reads from across the Internet: California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law yesterday making it legal for driverles...
On our reading list: David Byrne’s book, How Music Works
Many people simply listen to music. Not David Byrne, the solo artist and former frontman of the Talking Heads. Even beyond making music, Byr...
Making the invisible visible: 6 great TED-Ed lessons animated by Andrew Park
An overwhelming majority of our experience is guided by forces that are invisible to the naked eye. While we can easily see other people, we...
How a school-age blogger can effect big change: A Q&A with Martha Payne of NeverSeconds
Martha Payne may only be 9-years-old, but she is already a world-renowned food blogger. In a preamble to his fascinating TEDTalk about what ...
Further reading in GitHub, from Clay Shirky
[ted id=1546] The open-source programming world has a lot to teach democracy, says Clay Shirky. In this fascinating talk from TEDGlobal 2012...
In Short: How you can review patent applications, and the uncertain future of book covers
Enjoy these fascinating reads from across the Internet: Last week, NYU law professor Beth Noveck asked us to “demand a more open-source gove...
12 talks on understanding the brain
[ted id=1573 width=560 height=315] Read Montague is interested in the human dopamine system — or, as he puts it in this illuminating t...