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Online censorship, life on Mars and tiny robots: 20 TED Fellows give talks in Whistler 20 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Usman Riaz at the TED Fellows Retreat 2013. Photo: Ryan Lash. Our office might be closed for summer vacation, but the TED Fellows are hard at work at the very first TED Fellows Retreat, happening now...
TED goes on vacation 19 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Time off is a beautiful thing. It’s also an essential — the thing we all need to breathe deeply, enjoy life, and come back to work refreshed. This was the point of Stefan Sagmeister’s talk, The Power ...
TEDWeekends talks innovation for the Global South 17 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Malaria kills about 2,000 people every day. The mosquito-borne disease has ravaged the equatorial areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, where a combination of poverty and clim...
X Marks the Spot: A TEDx event in an ancient Greek amphitheater 17 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
The scene at TEDxKalamata, held in an amphitheater that dates back to 369 B.C. The venue that housed TEDxKalamata certainly had some history: held in an ancient amphitheater, this was the first TEDx ...
Your weekend reading: Management 101 for terrorists, the woman who helped Snowden 17 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
While the TED Blog chills for the next two weeks, take a break to read some of our favorite pieces from around the Internet over the past seven days: A fascinating, at times hilarious, look at busine...
How marathons can heal communities: 5 incredible stories 16 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
May El-Khalil, the founder of the Beirut Marathon, speaks at TED2013 about the power of the road race. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Yes, a marathon is about running 26.2 miles. But as May El-Khalil d...
Women and children first: Fellows Friday with Zubaida Bai, who creates lifesaving kits for maternal health 16 Aug 2013 | 10:15 pm
Engineer and health entrepreneur Zubaida Bai is passionate about improving women’s lives. Through her company AYZH, she develops health products — such as the $2 Clean Birth Kit — designed to reduce m...
No more citations for curbside veggies in Los Angeles 16 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
Ron Finley proudly stands beside his curbside vegetable forest during a gardening party the week after TED2013. Photo: Nick Weinberg Planting a vegetable garden beside a road is no longer a fineable ...
AquaTop makes bath time fun … and computer friendly 16 Aug 2013 | 03:02 am
Here at TED, we are big fans of innovative interfaces — from back in 2006, when Jeff Han demoed the multi-touch screen on the TED stage, to 2010 when Tan Le debuted an interface manipulated by brainwa...
8 classic movies about memory manipulation, and how they inspired real neuroscience 16 Aug 2013 | 12:33 am
Total Recall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inception. In today’s talk, MIT neuroscientists Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu admit that their latest study Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu: A mouse. A laser b...
