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Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers reall...
With her boundless energy and playful spirit, Jen Indovina is making that most boring of environmental imperatives –- energy efficiency –- s...
Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyon...
We didn’t know this when we scheduled Roger Ebert’s TED Talk to run today, but it turns out that April is a good month to become...
When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice. In a moving ...
Fifty years ago, April 12, 1961, was one of the most extraordinary moments in human history: a spacecraft carried a passenger, Yuri Gagarin,...
We’re happy to announce that TED has been nominated for five Webby Awards this year, four for TED.com and one for TEDTalks. (And we...
Local politics — schools, zoning, council elections — hit us where we live. So why don’t more of us actually get involved?...
Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a rivet...