The real reason for brains: Daniel Wolpert on TED.com
Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this en...
A plane you can drive: Anna Mracek Dietrich on TED.com
A flying car — it’s an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really c...
“Balloons of Bhutan”: Bringing Gross National Happiness from the Himalayas
In his latest project, “Balloons of Bhutan,” artist, computer scientist and storyteller Jonathan Harris explores how the Kingdom of Bhutan m...
“A place of joy”: NextEinstein welcomes the first postgrad class at AIMS Senegal
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0OpWZMqfU%5D Congratulations to the first class of admitted students at AIMS Senegal, the newest A...
Trust, morality — and oxytocin: Paul Zak on TED.com
What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it “the moral molecule̶...
FBI, here I am! Hasan Elahi on TED.com
After he ended up on a watch list by accident, artist Hasan Elahi was advised by his local FBI agents to let them know when he was traveling...
@TEDMED: Catching up with A.J. Jacobs, the “healthiest person alive”
At the TEDMED conference, TED’s own Nafissa caught up with writer AJ Jacobs, whose TEDTalk describes his “year of living biblica...
@TEDMED: Catching up with Paul Stamets, mushroom innovator
Yesterday at TEDMED, TEDTalks favorite Paul Stamets gave an emotional talk about new medical uses for mushrooms — including a variety ...
Stories cut from paper: Béatrice Coron on TED.com
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glor...