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Stephen Petranek reveals the question that occupies scientists at the end of the day (and the beginning of happy hour): How might the world ...
Saul Griffith (watch his TEDTalk) has been awarded a 2007 MacArthur “genius” grant. Griffith is one of the brains behind Instruc...
This week, the UN and the World Bank launched the Stolen Asset Recovery initiative, or StAR — a plan to help poor countries recover fu...
Wednesday night, Jill Sobule (watch her TEDTalk performance) and the modern string ensemble Ethel (watch their TEDTalk performance) paired u...
The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art — a place that can get very complicated. Here, he...
Zeresenay “Zeray” Alemseged has been digging the badlands of Ethiopia, looking for clues to humanity’s origins. Here he ta...
When she was awarded the 2006 TED Prize, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim expressed a wish: a global acceptance of diversity, mediated through the p...
The director of the award-winning documentary The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton makes films that help people tell their own stories. She talks...
A few days ago TED2005 speaker Craig Venter (watch his talk) announced that his lab has finished sequencing a single human’s genome &#...