Visualizing the possibility of intelligent life in the Milky Way
How many detectable alien civilizations are out there in our galaxy? In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake developed an equation to estimate the n...
Read the new TED Book: Citizen Advocate
Has the red tape of the political process gotten you down? In the step-by-step handbook Citizen Advocate: Get Government to Move Mountains a...
6 fascinating talks charting informal economies
[ted id=1555 width=560 height=315] When we hear the phrase “the economy,” often the first images that pop to mind are crisp bills being prin...
Sheryl Sandberg working on a new book, researchers able to alter the dreams of rats
[ted id=1040] Enjoy these fascinating reads from across the Internet: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who gave the talk “Why we have too few w...
What debris from the Japanese tsunami, still washing ashore, can teach us
The tsunami that struck eastern Japan in 2011 did unthinkable damage, killing more than 15,000 people and leveling more than 129,000 buildin...
6 art installations by Candy Chang that make the viewer part of the piece
[ted id=1553] TED Fellow Candy Chang creates art installations that are interactive, in a chalk and marker sense of the word. In this talk g...
7 talks about work to watch on Labor Day
[ted id=1344] Work comes in all shapes and sizes — there’s no one-size-fits-all model for what humans do to make a living. We can see ...
London 2012 Paralympics get a little help from 3 TED speakers
The 2012 Paralympic Games are underway in London, and several TED speakers are right there on the front lines. During Wednesday night’s dazz...
Reading List: A selection of must-read ebooks
“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped in...