The subject of race can be very touchy. As finance executive Mellody Hobson says, it’s a “conversational third rail.” But,…
09:29 minutes · Filmed Mar 2014 · Posted May 2014 · TED2014 Web cartoonist Randall Munroe answers simple what-if questions…
At her first museum job, art historian Sarah Lewis noticed something important about a master artist she was studying: Not…
Our energy future depends on nuclear fusion, says Michel Laberge. The plasma physicist runs a small company with a big…
Hamish Jolly, an ocean swimmer in Australia, wanted a wetsuit that would deter a curious shark from mistaking him for…
“The computer is an incredibly powerful means of creative expression,” says designer and TED Fellow James Patten. But right now,…
07:18 minutes · Filmed Mar 2014 · Posted Apr 2014 · TED2014 Elizabeth Gilbert was once an “unpublished diner waitress,”…
Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success,…
Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you’ll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter.…
More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part,…