Forecasting crime in Rio de Janeiro, a new Marvel comic, and an Airbnb to rejuvenate a rural community
The TED community has been very busy over the past few weeks. Below, some newsy highlights. Crime forecasting in Rio. Before the 2016 Olympi...
A TEDWomen update: Hanna Rosin on the ‘End of Men’
Cross-posted from TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell’s blog on the Huffington Post. When Hanna Rosin, the first speaker at the very first T...
A TED Talk from a war zone
At TEDSummit in June, we featured a talk by a young Syrian architect, Marwa Al-Sabouni. In it, she shares an important and original insight ...
Giant Olympic athletes take flight over Rio in JR’s latest work
A Sudanese high jumper towers over Rio de Janeiro, arching over a 25-story building in the Flamengo district. A triathlete plows through the...
World Lion Day: A visit to big-cat filmmakers Beverly & Dereck Joubert
Dereck and Beverly Joubert have been living in the bush in Botswana, making wildlife and conservation films together, for more than 30 years...
An advanced prosthetic arm, an underground park, and the case for taking a vacation
The TED community has been very busy over the past few weeks. Below, some newsy highlights. A major upgrade for prosthetics. After nearly a ...
4 TED Talks that make the case for open science in health care
Sometimes it seems as if the Internet has created a bold new era of openness. But if there is one place where openness appears to be lagging...
How Jane Chen built a better baby warmer — and a thriving business
In her 2013 TEDWomen Talk, entrepreneur (and TED Fellow) Jane Chen noted that “there are 15 million pre-term and underweight babies born eve...
A gorgeous new digital book celebrates the TED Fellows
It’s never easy to push against the current, to experiment with what’s never been done before, challenge uncomfortable truths. But 400 TED F...