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How many detectable alien civilizations are out there in our galaxy? In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake developed an equation to estimate the n...
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...
[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...
[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...
The tsunami that struck eastern Japan in 2011 did unthinkable damage, killing more than 15,000 people and leveling more than 129,000 buildin...
[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...
[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 ...
The 2012 Paralympic Games are underway in London, and several TED speakers are right there on the front lines. During Wednesday night’s dazz...
“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...