Toasting the xkcd book
Jennifer 8. Lee (watch her TEDTalk) and our friends from Reddit hosted a reading in New York tonight for one of the geekiest comics on the w...
Imogen Heap plays "Wait It Out"
Imogen Heap plays a powerful stripped-down version of “Wait It Out,” from her new record, Ellipse. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2009, ...
A passion for understanding: Oliver Sacks on hallucinations and other neurological curiosities
Today, neurologist Oliver Sacks — who gave the classic talk, “What hallucinations reveal about our minds,” at TED2009 — revealed...
2,000 translations for TEDTalks
Late last night, TED volunteer translators Danye West and Tony Yet completed their work on Chris Abani’s 2008 TEDTalk in Simplified Ch...
What hallucination reveals about our minds: Oliver Sacks on TED.com
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome — when visually impaired people experience lucid ...
An inventory of the invisible: John Lloyd on TED.com
Nature’s mysteries meet tack-sharp wit in this hilarious, 10-minute mix of quips and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John ...
3 warp-speed architecture tales: Bjarke Ingels on TED.com
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like natur...
Ray Anderson’s radical confessions: Read an excerpt
Ray Anderson (watch his TEDTalk), the chairman and founder of carpet company Interface Inc., is part of a new industrial revolution: one tha...
Chris Jordan follows the plastic to Midway Atoll
Chris Jordan (watch his TEDTalk) is on Midway Atoll with a team of artists to document a shocking result of our love of plastic: thousands o...