6 talks on the phenomena behind wrongful convictions
[ted id=1560 width=560 height=315] In courtrooms, eyewitness testimony is considered extremely powerful. But should it be? At TEDxUSC, foren...
A dream revealed at TED to be realized at the Paralympics Closing Ceremony
Yet another TED speaker is set to play a part in the Paralympics, now happening in London. At the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, Charles Hazlew...
How long do you want to live? TED ebook author ponders the possibilities of living to 164
How long do you want to live, and why? These are the questions that bestselling author and science writer David Ewing Duncan asks in the new...
A thousand times NO: Fellows Friday with Bahia Shehab
When art historian and scholar of Arabic script Bahia Shehab was asked to create a piece commemorating the centenary of the first exhibition...
8 mind-bending sculptures from Antony Gormley
[ted id=1551 width=560 height=315] Traditional Greek sculptors took a hunk of marble and, by chipping away at it, crafted the human form. An...
A new way to fund space exploration, from 2009 TED Prize winner Jill Tarter
Astronomer Jill Tarter wants us all to ask the question, “Are we alone?” As director of the SETI Institute (it stands for the Search for Ext...
Want a random TED Talk? Try Surprise Me!
As Barry Schwartz explained in his classic TED Talk “The paradox of choice,” the more options you have, the more confounding making a decisi...
Can’t remember a speaker’s name? Some common search terms for elusive TED Talks
Some TED Talks are memorable for their big, overarching themes. Others we remember for the small details — a random anecdote, the spea...
Did China hack the Dalai Lama’s email? How a human-computer collaboration traced the clues
[ted id=1556]“Man versus machine” is not an idea that Shyam Sankar believes in. In today’s fascinating talk, given at TEDGlobal 2012, Sankar...