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Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing ar...
The latest edition of Edge.org is a fascinating discussion on the role scientists might play in difficult financial times. The issue feature...
Perforations, firstly, make stamps easy to tear off. Architects and engineers employ them to create lighter and more breathable structures. ...
Each Friday recently, we’ve been featuring a TEDTalk that was posted early on in the TED.com experiment. Today’s hidden gem is f...
TED@PalmSprings is a new way to experience TED. Wondering what it will be like? Watch this preview of the lively, loungey, interactive gathe...
Via boingboing: Director Jesse Dylan made the beautiful video for Karen Armstrong’s Charter for Compassion (as well as a little someth...
This week, the great CBC radio show Quirks & Quarks convened nine Canadian scientists and one science fiction writer to speculate on 10...
Folk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also demon...
Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating persistence-of-vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short,...