Kate Hartman creates devices and interfaces for humans, houseplants, and glaciers. Her work playfully questions the ways in which we relate and communicate.

About this event: You don't want to miss out on what invaluable things our visionary speakers Gurminder Singh, Matthias Gruber, Wendy Meluch and Elizabeth Sweet have to say regarding the significance of human connection! If that isn't reason enough, we have 2 brilliant performances in store for you all as well: Rudeboi and The Spokes! If you haven't already, invi...

Like an actor's script, a sheet of music instructs a musician on what to play (the pitch) and when to play it (the rhythm). Sheet music may look complicated, but once you've gotten the hang of a few simple elements like notes, bars and clefs, you're ready to rock. Tim Hansen hits the instrumental basics you need to read music. [Directed by Thoma...

Antonio Donato Nobre researches the “ingenious systems” of the Amazon. His work illustrates the beautiful complexity of this region, as well as its fragility against a backdrop of climate change.

If you've seen Pierre Thiam's TED Talk about fonio, then you saw that part when he actually handed food out to the audience, yes? For those who didn't know to sit in the front rows to receive that blessing (or couldn't be there in the first place), and don't mind rolling up their sleeves in the kitchen, Pierre has shared the recipe and cooki...

Massimo Banzi co-founded Arduino, which makes affordable open-source microcontrollers for interactive projects, from art installations to an automatic plant waterer.

Christopher McDougall is the author of "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen."

James Surowiecki argues that people, when we act en masse, are smarter than we think. He's the author of The Wisdom of Crowds and writes about finance for the New Yorker.

About this event: Whether building a business, or developing a professional career, the taste of success is rather sweet, but what happens when the need to succeed creates an imbalance in our life? During this TEDxSanDiegoSalon luncheon, two successful professionals will discuss the challenges they faced when dealing with the pressures of a fast‐paced career, ...

About this event: Think TEDxNapierBridge Salon as a meet up with the smartest people you know. Short and sweet, Our Salon lasts a couple of hours rather than being an all-day affair. It is a gathering of people under one roof, held to amuse one another and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation & watching TED talks together. Our them...

Emmanuel Jal's hypnotic voice rises from hellish origins as a beacon of hope for those caught in seemingly endless cycles of war and despair.

Mikhail Zygar is the founder of Future History, the creative digital studio behind Project1917 and 1968.digital.

  $1.26 million in change is tossed into Rome’s Trevi Fountain each year. Legend has it that throwing a penny into the fountain guarantees the visitor a return trip to Rome. The city council donates the funds to Caritas, a major Catholic charity. [via Chicago Tribune] 1 ice cream shop serves all of Rwanda. Its name: Sweet Dreams. Swe...

Kristin Poinar uses remote sensing and numerical models to study the interaction of meltwater with ice flow, especially on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Dan Phillips builds homes out of recycled and reclaimed materials in Huntsville, Texas.

This short, sweet explainer from BlinkTower tells you just what you need to know about TED and TEDx -- and might inspire you to start your own event! Via TEDxSeaPoint, in Cape Town, South Africa.

Using revolutionary imaging technology, Gokul Upadhyayula provides biological insights with implications for the way we view and understand living organisms.

About this event: Think of TEDxNapierBridgeSalon as a meet up with the smartest people you know. Both short and sweet, It is a gathering of people under one roof, held to amuse one another and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation & watching TED talks together. Our events tend to coalesce a community with different backgrounds, opini...

TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, two new playlists are available: Spoken-word fireworks and That's absurd! That's absurd! 5 quirky talks remind us that life is funny, weird, sweet, absurd. Watch talks by Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd...

Photos: James Duncan Davidson "I'm so nervous," says a very sweet Raghu Dixit as he takes the TEDGlobal stage. The former microbiologist tells us that he quit his career 15 years ago "to become a rockstar." Whereas one might usually scoff at such half-baked plans, TEDGlobal turns out to be the place where it's actually paid off. As such, ...

Take a step back and consider the exquisite network of systems that sustain life on Planet Earth. The air we breathe, the food we eat and the ground we walk on are all carefully regulated by natural systems in an intertwined dance -- which means that any change we make in our environment can set off a chain of unexpected reactions. In this week’...

At TED2011, chefs Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche of the Chicago restaurant Moto showed us the unique alchemy that kept diners in their restaurant chuckling as they ate: "champagne" grapes, maki rolls printed on paper, a Cuban cigar that tastes like a Cuban sandwich, nachos that are actually dessert. Bouncing with enthusiasm, Cantu sold us on the...

About this event: TEDxLSRCollege is a half-day event to be organised in the second week of September, 2014 at the Lady Shri Ram College Campus, New Delhi. The goal of this event is to bring together exceptionally unconventional, radical and out-of-the-box ideas by bright minds in our local community. Essentially, we promise to bring together idea-focused talks th...

About this event: We build them, we traverse them, and sometimes we even burn them, for better or worse. For TEDWomen 2017, we'll explore the theme of Bridges. Join the Association of Women in Project Management for two live stream sessions of TED's famous 18-minute talks in conjunction with the TED Women 2017 BRIDGES National Conference held in New Orleans, LA....

(TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks Monday!) The wonderful thing about the universe is not just how big it is, but how every time we look into it we find something new and extraordinary. Here are four talks about the vastness of space, a...

Black Label Movement is an explosively physical Minneapolis dance company.

You think your food tastes good, but food inventor Barb Stuckey thinks you could be doing better. In her book, Taste What You've Been Missing, Stuckey explores the science of what, exactly, what makes food taste good -- and what doesn't. Which brings us today to: Uuuuumami! (That's oo-ma-mee.) What is umami? That rich, brothy flavor witho...

The writer and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series "A History of the World in 100 Objects" and the accompanying book.

The few days before a holiday are brutal. It doesn’t matter if you have a lot of work on your plate or have midterms to study for -- your mind just wants to be distracted from it all. And so, we bring you the best TED Talks for procrastinating, so you don’t have to feel completely guilty for not doing what you are supposed to be doing. After all...

As the TED team travels around the world hosting salons in 14 cities, we're collecting great local stories. Here's a quick report from TED@Johannesburg, held May 3, 2012, at MIAGI Centre for Music, and locally hosted by the team at TEDxSoweto. Start with taking a look at the event through the TEDxSoweto Flickr collection here. Then rel...