More than 75 TEDTalks showing women in science and tech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g032MPrSjFA “Science: It’s a Girl Thing!” That’s what is claimed in a goofy public service announcement, made...
Pop quiz: What would you do if you knew Alzheimer’s disease was in your future?
For the past 12 years, global health advocate Alanna Shaikh has watched her father, whom she calls her “hero and mentor,” deteriorate from A...
Why are these whales here? TED Fellow Asha de Vos featured in The New York Times
A day at the beach means something very different to TED Fellow Asha de Vos, a marine biologist who has spent the past three years charting ...
Quantum levitation in action: Raw footage from Boaz Almog’s TEDGlobal talk
Boaz Almog demonstrates “quantum locking” — which causes a small, supercooled superconductor to levitate above a magnetic ...
Looking forward, looking back: TEDGlobal 2012 recap
When it comes to time, there is the past, the present and the future. But during day four of TEDGlobal, speakers seemed especially concerned...
Conflict as thinking: Margaret Heffernan at TEDGlobal 2012
An epidemic hidden in plain view Margaret Heffernan begins her TEDGlobal talk by telling us a story: In Oxford in the 1950s, there was physi...
In praise of cooperation without coordination: Clay Shirky at TEDGlobal 2012
Amy Cuddy must be proud: Clay Shirky walks on stage and promptly strikes a power pose. Then he tells us of a 9-year-old Scottish girl who li...
How a lonely girl earned 1.6 million friends: Daria Musk at TEDGlobal 2012
Where some people saw a social network too far, Daria Musk saw an opportunity. In the summer of 2011, she joined Google+ and decided to perf...
The cables that connect us all: Andrew Blum at TEDGlobal 2012
Architecture writer Andrew Blum has always focused on the physical landscape: our cities, our buildings, the places in which we live and wor...