The scene in New York as the Curiosity rover landed
New York’s Times Square regularly fills up for great public events, the crowd chanting and cheering. Rarely, however, do they chant, &...
3 thoroughly slamming spoken word performances
It’s hard to get one’s brain started on a Monday (especially if you stayed up to watch Curiosity last night). To get synapses firing, here a...
5 rules for productive conflict
Rob Manning did everything in his power to screw up the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars last night. Manning not only cut radio signals to ...
Countdown to the Mars landing tonight!
Tonight at 10:31:30 pm PDT, the rover Curiosity will land on Mars. And if you haven’t yet watched the astonishing way it’ll get ...
How much should we worry about future crimes? A Q&A with Marc Goodman
Marc Goodman studies how to prevent future crimes — not in the Minority Report sense, but by thinking about the ways that current and ...
The flying doctor: Fellows Friday with Ola Orekunrin
Fueled by personal conviction and in response to family tragedy, emergency physician Ola Orekunrin — one of the UK’s youngest qu...
The unusual musical stylings of Mark Applebaum: 5 examples
Composer Mark Applebaum is bored by the standard rules of music. In a madcap talk given at TEDxStanford, the associate professor of composit...
The first TED Talk that made our content director cry
[ted id=189] What’s the first TED Talk that made director of content Kelly Stoetzel cry? In a new interview on the website Womenetics, Stoet...
From wooden skyscrapers to spoken word: Highlights from TED@Vancouver
This spring, TED headed on the road, visiting 14 cities across six continents on the hunt for untapped talent. The idea behind the sweeping ...