The secret life of textiles: Fellows Friday with Elaine Ng Yan Ling
Clusters of fabric blossoms wave in response to movement, delicately laser-cut wood panels expand and contract in moisture or heat. Elaine N...
You Tell Us: What would you do for the world with $1 million? Part 2!
Nominations for the TED Prize are open from now until August 31st. Meaning that there’s still time to nominate a great thinker youR...
Explore exoplanets with a wave: A collaboration to visualize Kepler data
Wired UK brings news of a fascinating collaboration to explore data from NASA’s Kepler mission, which has brought back evidence of tho...
The case for a Nikola Tesla museum
[ted id=1482] In June, TED favorite Marco Tempest told us about the “electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla,” the late 1800s inventor who he...
New TED Book: When I’m 164
How long do you want to live, and why? These are the questions that bestselling author and science writer David Ewing Duncan asks as he surv...
From finger painting to intercontinental missiles: Highlights from TED@Tokyo
This spring, TED headed on the road, visiting 14 cities across six continents on the hunt for untapped talent. The idea behind the sweeping ...
5 designers working hard to save babies’ lives
[ted id=1549] Designer Timothy Prestero loves a flashy concept car. But he would much rather create objects that will actually be of use to ...
A TED Prize wish — 100,000 posters later
JR’s art isn’t meant to be hung in an ornate frame in a museum or gallery. For more than a decade, the street artist has printed poster-size...
In Short: A robot that builds sandcastles, the science of karate board breaking
Enjoy these fascinating reads from across the Internet: TED-Ed’s own Rose Eveleth looks at the science of building sandcastles, and di...