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That catchy music that introduces every TEDTalk is now available as free ringtones! Both the current “TEDTalks Phase II” theme a...
As many forms as outreach can take, it seems that today’s new TEDTalk luminary, Nalini Nadkarni, has done them all and then invented s...
A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds R...
Willie Smits works at the complicated intersection of humankind, the animal world and our green planet. In his early work as a forester in I...
By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving loc...
From a New Scientist photo gallery: Andrew Hicks used computer algorithms to generate the mirror’s bizarre surface, which curves and b...
Brenda Laurel spoke at TED in early 1998 — at a watershed moment. In 1997, she launched Purple Moon to make smart computer games aimed...
A TED archive gem. At TED in 1998, game designer Brenda Laurel asked: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She talke...
Today, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams’ talk from TED2009 was posted and we all began to tweet, creating a labyrinth of self-referenc...