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Inventor and MacArthur fellow Saul Griffith shares some innovative ideas from his lab — from “smart rope” to a house-sized...
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab — a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and anal...
Dancers from Pilobolus perform the sensuous duet “Symbiosis.” Does it trace the birth of a relationship? Or the co-evolution of ...
Worth a read: Fascinating Op/Ed piece in today’s Times by Carolyn Porco on the brightening future for human space travel, which has be...
Along the social absorption route, there is always a point where complex issues and inconvenient messages percolate into the pop-culture sph...
This Thursday in New York City, poet Amira Thoron will read from her beautiful manuscript, “Elegy for a House.” An excerpt: Wate...
Anna Deavere Smith brings the TED audience to their feet as she brings to life a series of quintessential Americans. The chameleon-like Deav...
We’re really excited about this. A conference devoted to "The Big Questions". The questions we have in mind are here. ...
Yes, that’s a NASCAR racer pictured above, and yes, you’re still on the TEDBlog. If you think there’s something inco...