7 miles down: James Cameron’s sub set to explore the Mariana Trench
Update: This Storify tells the story of the descent in tweets from around the world … If all goes as planned, today James Cameron (wat...
Step inside the Millennium Seed Bank: Video
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/36421901%5D This lovely new video, with lots of extreme closeups, walks us through the scientific facility that Jona...
TED’s Worldwide Talent Search: Sign up in Vancouver!
From April to June 2012, TED will be throwing 14 events around the world to search for unheard voices that need to be seen onstage at TED201...
Born to innovate: Fellows Friday with Alex Odira Odundo
Armed with a good idea, some scrap metal, and plenty of determination, Alex Odira Odundo invented two low-cost machines that make it easy to...
‘What’s Killing Us’ – TED ebook examines our toughest global health problems
In the past decade, we’ve changed the way we collectively view the health of the 7 billion people who occupy this planet. Health issues were...
Video: Biking from SF to TED2012 (in 5 minutes)
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/38802303%5D Keeping with his annual tradition, Rickshaw Bags’ CEO, Mark Dwight, rode his bicycle more than 500...
The numbers behind the Copyright Math
[ted id=1390] Were you intrigued by “The $8 Billion iPod,” Rob Reid’s short TEDTalk about the new science of Copyright Mat...
Are we alone? Join SETI Live to help answer that question …
Are we alone? It’s a question with which we are all familiar. Jill Tarter says she started asking it “as a little girl, walking along the de...
New full-length video: Questions no one knows the answers to
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SWvDHvWXok&hd=1&w=560&h=315%5D This video comes from our new TED-Ed channel on YouTu...