Turning filthy water drinkable: Michael Pritchard on TED.com
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it — inventing the portable...
New insight on an ancient disease: Malaria, like HIV, came from chimps
At TED2009, Stanford Professor and virus hunter Nathan Wolfe explained that most human diseases — AIDS, SARS, swine flu — origin...
Hold your breath for micro-sculpture: Willard Wigan on TED.com
Willard Wigan tells the story of how a difficult and lonely childhood drove him to discover his unique ability — to create art so tiny...
Supercomputer visualizations show the guts of exploding stars
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are using the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to model supernovas, and New Scientist has published a g...
The week in comments
It reads like everyone was inspired by the talks this week (including two more released from TEDGlobal 2009), which feature philosopher Alai...
Duncan Davidson: "It takes a team to photograph a TED"
One of the two photographers who worked this year’s TEDGlobal, Duncan Davidson, shares his notes on TED photography. If you’re c...
The Market Maker: Eleni Gabre-Madhin
Following up on economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin’s 2007 TEDTalk on Ethiopian markets comes an episode from PBS’ award-winning docume...
New Edge videos explore the staggering potential of genetics
What is life? Can we create it? Customize it? Edge has just published over six hours of video from their new Master Class on the future of b...
Did we evolve from aquatic apes? Elaine Morgan on TED.com
Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in water...