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Via LiveScience.com: Researchers at MIT have found valuable insight into body armor by studying the African fish Polypterus senegalus. A liv...
Nonpartisan science advice in the US Congress? A newly opened online archive shows that it was possible — and stimulates a call to re-...
In this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional South African wire weavers built a worldwide m...
At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, stra...
As Jacqueline Novogratz says in her 2005 TEDTalk: “You can’t talk about poverty today without talking about malaria bednets.R...
Louise Leakey asks, “Who are we?” The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutiona...
Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their hum...
Positive psychologist Martin Seligman talks about psychology — both as a developing field of study, and as it works one-on-one with ea...
Four of the speakers that participated in the first TEDGLOBAL in Oxford (July 2005) have all published new books recently. Former Afghani mi...