Shai Reshef's nonprofit University of the People -- which offers nearly tuition-free, accredited degrees online -- today launches its first graduate degree, an MBA program in 12 courses. Although there are no tuition or textbook fees, there is a $200 testing fee per course, which means students can expect to pay $2,400 for their MBA (co...

Growing up in the UK and coming of age in Pakistan, TEDIndia Fellow Asher Hasan observed a vast discrepancy: those with and without access to basic healthcare, and the devastating social consequences of this disparity. He tells TED Blog the story of how he witnessed a single health disaster ruin the hopes of his childhood friends, and how this...

Sight. Sound. Touch. Taste. Smell. We all know the five senses by heart and yet, points out designer Jinsop Lee in today’s talk, few products and experiences tick all five. And thus he created “5 senses graphs” to grade objects on how well they play to each of our assorted senses on a scale of 1 to 10. Riding a motorcycle = good on all but sm...

UPDATE OCTOBER 2017: The science of power poses is one of ongoing study. Please check our update on Amy Cuddy's talk for the latest research in this area of science. There's one very important thing that everyone should do before heading into a job interview, giving a big speech or attempting an athletic feat. According to Amy Cuddy, a so...

Courtney Grimes-Sutton and Asa Thomas-Train of Mace Chasm Farm explain how to make chicken feet broth -- and discuss the joys and pains of farming. A film from ideas.ted.com. Chicken Feet Broth Recipe Prep time 20 minutes                                                        Cook time 4-12 hours Chicken feet make for a rich, gelatinous...

Good design has the power to improve lives. Yesterday, Public Interest Design -- a group dedicated to design for social good -- released the Global Public Interest Design 100, a list of 100 "designers" (including some people you really might not expect) who are designing for the good of all. We love this sweeping list of 100 architects, designer...

When Jane Chen and her team arrived in India in 2008, it was with a bold idea. They wanted to develop a simple, affordable solution to a terrible problem: infant mortality. They went to the right place. According to a recent Child Mortality report, produced by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, India accounts for more t...

In today's TEDTalk, Max Little tells you about a test -- now in trials -- that could help diagnose Parkinson's disease with a 30-second phone call. But the first challenge: He and his team needed to record 10,000 voices from across the world to make sure that the technique is accurate and scientifically valid. In late June, when he announce...

“Economic development is of the people, by the people and for the people,” declared entrepreneur and economist Iqbal Quadir on the TED stage back in 2005. In his talk, he offered a bold vision for bottom-up development and shared a searing critique of foreign aid -- that it actually does more harm than good. His own story of innovation in his na...

Could the telephone be used as a healthcare device? Mathematician Max Little believed that it could. Because Parkinson’s disease causes unusual tremors in the voice, Little realized that a 30-second phone call could be all that’s needed to diagnose the disease, which devastates millions of people worldwide. As Little shared at TEDGlobal 2012, in...

Hello there! Get the updated TED Talks download instructions. This post is for historical interest only :) If you're on a low-bandwidth or spotty internet connection, sometimes it's easier to download a TEDTalk than to watch online through our streaming video player. This week we've rolled out two new ways to find and download our smal...

Good design isn’t just about making a great-looking colander. Good design can actually improve our lives, both individually and collectively. In the new Autodesk Gallery exhibit “Public Interest Design: Products, Places & Processes,” curators Courtney E. Martin and John Cary showcase 12 projects that were designed with the common good...

“How do you ensure technology reaches users?” Krista Donaldson asks in her TED Talk. “How do you put it in their hands?” Donaldson is the CEO of D-Rev, which creates medical devices for people around the world who make less than $4 a day. She spoke at TEDWomen this past December about the company’s in-development prosthetic knee, which co...

Nick Hanauer lays out the epic failure of the Republican party to serve its voters, prompting the popular surge in support for Donald Trump. The Republican Party is coming apart, and Donald Trump is leading the charge. The GOP establishment, now aware of the existential crisis they face, is in full panic mode. Media elites and most of the pundi...

In her 2013 TEDWomen Talk, entrepreneur (and TED Fellow) Jane Chen noted that “there are 15 million pre-term and underweight babies born every year around the world, and one of the biggest problems they face is staying warm.” Premature babies can’t properly regulate their body temperatures and need an incubator in order for their organs t...

Biomineralogist Damian Palin (watch his TED Talk) collaborates with bacteria to mine valuable minerals from desalination brine, the toxic byproduct of desalinating seawater -- creating wealth from waste while protecting the environment. You work in the field of geomicrobiology. What is it, and why is it becoming increasingly important? Geo...

Human creativity is a natural, infinitely renewable resource -- and it’s coming up with smart, cheap solutions to people’s biggest problems. Strategist Navi Radjou explains. If an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty, then the developing world must be filled with optimists. There, people have learned to get more value from limited ...

Whatever your opinion of them, you can't deny that MOOCs have come a long way in the last few years. To help put the massive online courses into some perspective, Alex Cusack, a contributing writer at Moocs.com, a blog that covers news about MOOCs, shared this handy infographic. Cusack, a consultant in educational technology, regularly works ...

Forget aerial drones. Underwater drones are where the action's at, at least according to OpenROV founder and TED Fellow David Lang. Imagine climbing into the cockpit of your own personal submarine, zooming and diving through the depths of the ocean and exploring otherwise-unreachable underwater worlds -- all without needing to know how to swim....

Everyone is in favor of high self-esteem -- but cultivating it can be surprisingly tough. Psychologist Guy Winch explains why -- and describes smart ways we can help build ourselves up. Many of us recognize the value of improving our feelings of self-worth. When our self-esteem is higher, we not only feel better about ourselves, we are more re...

Our photographer Duncan Davidson loves to shoot timelapses; before every TED, you can find him behind the scenes hiding cameras to snap away for hours and days. In his latest piece, he tracks the construction of a custom robot arena for Raffaello D'Andrea, whose TED Talk was posted just last night. The TED Blog asked Duncan for some of the ge...

Snap judgements of others Amy Cuddy starts by asking us to pay attention to what we're doing with our bodies. Are our shoulders hunched? Are we trying to not bump into the person next to us? Are we sprawled out? "We're fascinated with body language," she says. We dissect and analyze and judge people, and in particular we scrutinize pub...

Real solutions can emerge from places surprisingly adjacent to the problems they address. This session examines how progress — from villages to urban spaces, from the artist's studio to the corporate world — can be found by taking a step to the side. The speakers who'll appear in this session: Khalida Brohi found an unexpected way to fight h...

Linda Cliatt-Wayman has spent her career working in low-income, low-performing schools -- the same Philly schools she grew up in. She has developed a thick skin and a tough attitude … laced with fierce love for her students. In her TED Talk, How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard, she shares her approach to fixing a broken system...

Yes, it’s possible to ask for what you want without coming across as a jerk, says social psychologist Adam Galinsky. Speaking up is hard to do. I understood the true meaning of this phrase last year, when my wife and I became new parents. After we took our child home from the hospital, we were unsure whether our baby was getting enough nutrient...

As a society, we tend to focus on prodigies -- the young stars in their fields. But what if we looked at the people at the opposite end of the timeline instead? By studying them, network scientist Albert-László Barabási has come up with lessons that can benefit us all. When, at the age of 50, John Fenn joined the faculty at Yale, he was old by ...

Sometimes it’s easier to download a TED Talk as an MP4 than to watch it online through our streaming video player. The TED.com website offers two different ways to find and download a crisp and watchable video file of your favorite talk. One method allows you to download a video with automatic subtitles in English and several other languages...

How do you build an ultra-compelling, feels-so-real fictional world? It all starts from the words up, according to linguist David J. Peterson. For fans, the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones means saying goodbye to a beloved second home. It’s a world that many people have grown to love (and fear) as if it were an actual destinatio...

Communication is fundamental to how we relate and interact. But we receive signals from everywhere -- other living creatures, the ecosystem, the earth itself, and the space beyond. In this session six speakers will explore how we send, and more importantly receive, those signals. Here are the speakers who appeared in this session. Click b...

Here come the acronyms: In March, the United Nations’ (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a working draft of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from Working Group II (WGII), on “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” in the world’s climate. The 2590-page report was studded with dense charts containing ... a lot of ...