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Some of the world’s most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, han...
Above: TED banners have started flying over Long Beach in preparation for next week’s <a href="TED2010. (More banners here.) B...
TED visits Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate look at his science-inspired art. An eye-opening, personal conversation with ...
Traditionally, David Agus says, cancer treatments have had a short-sighted focus on the offending individual cells. He suggests a new, cross...
In the lifetime of the TED Prize, we’ve launched more than 20 wishes, generating ongoing projects to save the oceans…to teach and to c...
Traditional lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for the regions most in need. George Whitesides’ ingen...
The TED Associate Membership allows you to watch next week’s TED conference live as it happens — and to do so in the company of ...
When Jamie Heywood‘s brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built a...
MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems — those we know h...