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Great news: TED Books are now available on Apple’s iBookstore. It’s an exciting time for publishing, and we’re glad to work with Apple...
What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that co...
Many of us have a social media presence — a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud...
In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, “We are losing our listening.” In this short, fascinating tal...
In her public art pieces, Candy Chang uses low-tech tools such as chalk, Post-it notes, and stickers to help people make their cities more u...
Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN’s World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go h...
Psychologist Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works, studies the nature of pleasure. At TED Global he gave a witty and riveting talk on ho...
Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists — that o...
On stage at TEDGlobal 2011, Geoffrey West talked about the universal mathematics that govern cities and corporations. Knowing only the popul...