Art of substance and absence: Alwar Balasubramaniam on TED.com
Alwar Balasubramaniam’s sculpture plays with time, shape, shadow, perspective: four tricky sensations that can reveal — or conce...
Why I’m excited about TEDxChange, by Melinda Gates
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arz1ULELg7w] Via the Gates Foundation’s Foundation Notes blog: On Monday, Sept. 20, TEDxChange...
The child-driven education: Sugata Mitra on TED.com
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist w...
Powerful first-person reports from Pakistan, from TED’s Chris Anderson
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRkoMFk9fyI] Chris Anderson, curator of TED, was born in Pakistan, and last week, he and the Acumen ...
Lifesavers: Saturday TEDTalks Playlist
As a 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand, and millions of people are being displaced by the monsoon flooding in Pakistan, we are re...
Richard Rockefeller reports from the Sargasso Sea, a Mission Blue hope spot
Mission Blue supporter Richard Rockefeller reports: Light winds, clear skies, a leisurely agenda and frequent laughter belie this group̵...
The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world’s oldest continuously living organisms — from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobag...
Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
Bristol Baughan is a producer of award-winning films — including a documentary that received an Academy Award nomination — and a...
Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it’s better to keep goals sec...