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On Monday, the INK Conference (which is being held in partnership with TED) and the Rajeev Motwani Foundation hosted US President Barack Oba...
Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native La...
Civil wars and ethnic conflicts have brought the world incredible suffering, but Stefan Wolff’s figures show that, in the last 20 year...
Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformati...
What does it take to make an everyday object — say, a toaster — from scratch? And does anyone know how to make it, all the way f...
Musical innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add...
For years, orthodontist Awab Alvi has been an outspoken political activist via his blog, Teeth Maestro. With the onset of disastrous floodin...
In the quest to map the brain, many scientists have attempted the incredibly daunting task of recording the activity of each neuron. Gero Mi...
Watch the video above to get a feeling for the vibe of TEDWomen — and find many of the talks in this video inside a new Theme on TED.c...