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If all goes according to plan this week, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva will circulate its first beam on Sept. 10 — a ste...
Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can’t answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowl...
As part of its new Education Issue, GOOD Magazine is holding an open call for new projects that answer the question: How can you help local ...
We all know we should be replacing our energy-sucking incandescent light bulbs with CFLs — but, ugh. As part of its green design progr...
Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, Peter Hirshberg offers an absorbing look at emerging media and tech history. He shares some crucial less...
On the eve of his inauguration as president of the Rhode Island School of Design, John Maeda gave a wide-ranging interview to Dominique Brow...
X Prize founder Peter Diamandis lays out several very good reasons to keep exploring space — and he talks about how, with the help of ...
At TED2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of DNA folding (calling it a process akin to magic). Now, he lays out in clear, adundant...
This whimsical wrap-up of TED2006 — presented by Einstein, the African grey parrot, and her trainer, Stephanie White — simply ti...