Reading TED

tyrone hayes + penelope jagessar chaffer: the toxic baby? ^R 9.410
cesar harada: a novel idea for cleaning up oil spills ^R 9.428
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.428
anna mracek dietrich: a plane you can drive ^R 9.432
norman foster's green agenda ^R 9.436
a sense of humor about afghanistan? artist aman mojadidi shows how ^R 9.437
bassam tariq: the beauty and diversity of muslim life ^R 9.449
frederick balagadde: bio-lab on a microchip ^R 9.449
anand varma the first 21 days of a bee's life ^R 9.451
jinha lee a tool that lets you touch pixels ^R 9.458
yanis varoufakis capitalism will eat democracy—unless we speak up ^R 9.460
alessandra orofino: it's our city. let's fix it ^R 9.463
shimon schocken: the self-organizing computer course ^R 9.463
two young scientists break down plastics with bacteria ^R 9.465
andy yen: think your email's private? think again ^R 9.473
imam faisal abdul rauf: lose your ego, find your compassion ^R 9.474
trevor timm how free is our freedom of the press ^R 9.483
denis dutton: a darwinian theory of beauty ^R 9.486
david cameron: the next age of government ^R 9.491
miguel nicolelis: brain-to-brain communication has arrived. how we did it ^R 9.492
gr¨¦goire courtine the paralyzed rat that walked ^R 9.497
jae rhim lee: my mushroom burial suit ^R 9.506
chrystia freeland the rise of the new global super rich ^R 9.517
how the blockchain will radically transform the economy ^R 9.540
dan barasch a park underneath the hustle and bustle of new york city ^R 9.547
david pizarro: the strange politics of disgust ^R 9.554
neil burgess: how your brain tells you where you are ^R 9.557
jacqueline novogratz: a third way to think about aid ^R 9.560
roselinde torres what it takes to be a great leader ^R 9.580
ethan nadelmann: why we need to end the war on drugs ^R 9.596
sheila nirenberg: a prosthetic eye to treat blindness ^R 9.609
catherine bracy why good hackers make good citizens ^R 9.616
ed gavagan: a story about knots and surgeons ^R 9.625
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.630
christiana figueres the inside story of the paris climate agreement ^R 9.632
lucianne walkowicz let's not use mars as a backup planet ^R 9.633
genevieve von petzinger why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over europe ^R 9.649
hector ruiz on connecting the world ^R 9.653
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.654
taryn simon: the stories behind the bloodlines ^R 9.656
pankaj ghemawat: actually, the world isn't flat ^R 9.658
jared diamond on why societies collapse ^R 9.671
bernie krause the voice of the natural world ^R 9.673
lisa nip how humans could evolve to survive in space ^R 9.679
mustafa akyol: faith versus tradition in islam ^R 9.688
david anderson: your brain is more than a bag of chemicals ^R 9.694
nicholas christakis: how social networks predict epidemics ^R 9.710
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.741
jessica green: are we filtering the wrong microbes? ^R 9.747
svante pääbo: dna clues to our inner neanderthal ^R 9.751
why brexit happened—and what to do next ^R 9.755
gian giudice why our universe might exist on a knife-edge ^R 9.755
ray kurzweil: the accelerating power of technology ^R 9.762
how racism makes us sick ^R 9.767
gregory heyworth how i'm discovering the secrets of ancient texts ^R 9.768
christina warinner: tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque ^R 9.792
susan lim: transplant cells, not organs ^R 9.792
dorothy roberts the problem with race-based medicine ^R 9.802
susan etlinger: what do we do with all this big data? ^R 9.802
how (and why) russia hacked the us election ^R 9.815
steven pinker: the surprising decline in violence ^R 9.816
michael mcdaniel: cheap, effective shelter for disaster relief ^R 9.821
jennifer golbeck the curly fry conundrum why social media ¡°likes¡± say more than you might think ^R 9.822
danny hillis: the internet could crash. we need a plan b ^R 9.825
shyam sankar: the rise of human-computer cooperation ^R 9.827
science in service to the public good ^R 9.834
alexander tsiaras: conception to birth—visualized ^R 9.838
a temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home ^R 9.846
nathan wolfe: what's left to explore? ^R 9.853
zahra' langhi: why libya's revolution didn't work—and what might ^R 9.873
amory lovins: a 40-year plan for energy ^R 9.885
laura snyder: the philosophical breakfast club ^R 9.895
rob knight: how our microbes make us who we are ^R 9.898
thomas insel: toward a new understanding of mental illness ^R 9.899
a young scientist's quest for clean water ^R 9.925
david sengeh the sore problem of prosthetic limbs ^R 9.927
why some people are more altruistic than others ^R 9.929
mariana mazzucato government—investor, risk-taker, innovator ^R 9.930
paola antonelli treats design as art ^R 9.937
navi radjou: creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits ^R 9.938
britta riley: a garden in my apartment ^R 9.962
craig venter unveils "synthetic life" ^R 9.966
rory sutherland: sweat the small stuff ^R 9.966
dave troy: social maps that reveal a city's intersections—and separations ^R 9.970
catarina mota: play with smart materials ^R 9.972
kristina gjerde: making law on the high seas ^R 9.995
mariano sigman your words may predict your future mental health ^R 9.996
craig venter on dna and the sea ^R 10.011
ravin agrawal: 10 young indian artists to watch ^R 10.016
daniel suarez: the kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot ^R 10.017
ben goldacre: what doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe ^R 10.021
joe landolina: this gel can make you stop bleeding instantly ^R 10.038
latoya ruby frazier a visual history of inequality in industrial america ^R 10.044
eleni gabre-madhin on ethiopian economics ^R 10.045
lian pin koh a drone's-eye view of conservation ^R 10.048
geoff mulgan: post-crash, investing in a better world ^R 10.057
bruno torturra: got a smartphone? start broadcasting ^R 10.073
let's clean up the space junk orbiting earth ^R 10.095
richard ledgett the nsa responds to edward snowden's ted talk ^R 10.113
eric liu why ordinary people need to understand power ^R 10.119
jake barton the museum of you ^R 10.130
wade davis: dreams from endangered cultures ^R 10.133
william black how to rob a bank (from the inside, that is) ^R 10.134
dan berkenstock the world is one big dataset. now, how to photograph it ... ^R 10.144
manuel lima a visual history of human knowledge ^R 10.154
adam davidson: what we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff ^R 10.160
mary bassett why your doctor should care about social justice ^R 10.168
dean ornish: the world's killer diet ^R 10.169
maajid nawaz: a global culture to fight extremism ^R 10.219
steve silberman the forgotten history of autism ^R 10.238
jonathan trent: energy from floating algae pods ^R 10.241
ryan holladay to hear this music you have to be there. literally ^R 10.241
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 10.253
bill clinton on rebuilding rwanda ^R 10.263
aziza chaouni how i brought a river, and my city, back to life ^R 10.272
maurizio seracini: the secret lives of paintings ^R 10.276
stefan wolff: the path to ending ethnic conflicts ^R 10.277
beth noveck: demand a more open-source government ^R 10.280
pirates, nurses and other rebel designers ^R 10.287
steven pinker: what our language habits reveal ^R 10.308
rodrigo bijou governments don't understand cyber warfare. we need hackers ^R 10.323
jon gosier: the problem with "trickle-down techonomics" ^R 10.326
jimmy carter why i believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse? ^R 10.329
e.o. wilson calls for an encyclopedia of life ^R 10.338
e.o. wilson: advice to young scientists ^R 10.352
tavi gevinson: a teen just trying to figure it out ^R 10.366
marwa al-sabouni how syria's architecture laid the foundation for brutal war ^R 10.389
rory stewart: why democracy matters ^R 10.421
howard rheingold: the new power of collaboration ^R 10.423
julia bacha how women wage conflict without violence ^R 10.424
taylor wilson: my radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors ^R 10.436
pico iyer: the art of stillness ^R 10.441
hamish jolly a shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think) ^R 10.444
sanjay pradhan: how open data is changing international aid ^R 10.450
barbara natterson-horowitz: what veterinarians know that physicians don't ^R 10.485
liz coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education ^R 10.499
deborah gordon what ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the internet ^R 10.506
robyn stein deluca: the good news about pms ^R 10.515
iran and israel: peace is possible ^R 10.523
wendy chung autism—what we know (and what we don't know yet) ^R 10.525
thelma golden: how art gives shape to cultural change ^R 10.539
kitra cahana a glimpse of life on the road ^R 10.552
david sedlak 4 ways we can avoid a catastrophic drought ^R 10.565
peter eigen: how to expose the corrupt ^R 10.581
we can fight terror without sacrificing our rights ^R 10.581
elizabeth gilbert success, failure and the drive to keep creating ^R 10.589
in praise of conflict ^R 10.620
his holiness the karmapa: the technology of the heart ^R 10.621
georgette mulheir: the tragedy of orphanages ^R 10.670
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 10.678
janet iwasa how animations can help scientists test a hypothesis ^R 10.701
james patten the best computer interface maybe ... your hands ^R 10.705
brian dettmer: old books reborn as art ^R 10.723
steven johnson tours the ghost map ^R 10.747
kwame anthony appiah: is religion good or bad? (this is a trick question) ^R 10.756
aditi shankardass: a second opinion on developmental disorders ^R 10.763
jorge soto: the future of early cancer detection? ^R 10.768
guy-philippe goldstein: how cyberattacks threaten real-world peace ^R 10.786
karima bennoune when people of muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism ^R 10.830
catherine crump: the small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you ^R 10.839
keolu fox why genetic research must be more diverse ^R 10.859
dambisa moyo economic growth has stalled. let's fix it ^R 10.925
hannah brencher: love letters to strangers ^R 10.943
rob forbes on ways of seeing ^R 10.946
kwame anthony appiah is religion good or bad (this is a trick question) ^R 10.980
molly stevens a new way to grow bone ^R 11.070
ramanan laxminarayan: the coming crisis in antibiotics ^R 11.083
severine autesserre: to solve mass violence, look to locals ^R 11.098
timothy bartik: the economic case for preschool ^R 11.100
jeff iliff: one more reason to get a good night's sleep ^R 11.145
hendrik poinar: bring back the woolly mammoth! ^R 11.166
sarah-jayne blakemore: the mysterious workings of the adolescent brain ^R 11.172
steven pinker: human nature and the blank slate ^R 11.211
ole scheeren why great architecture should tell a story ^R 11.223
philip evans how data will transform business ^R 11.261
carolyn porco: could a saturn moon harbor life? ^R 11.296
doris kim sung: metal that breathes ^R 11.318
jennifer doudna how crispr lets us edit our dna ^R 11.397
thomas piketty: new thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century ^R 11.415
johan rockstrom: let the environment guide our development ^R 11.529
rebecca mackinnon: let's take back the internet! ^R 11.560
eleanor longden the voices in my head ^R 11.566
greg lynn on calculus in architecture ^R 11.622
jedidah isler the untapped genius that could change science for the better ^R 11.664
nirmalya kumar: india's invisible innovation ^R 11.665
new nanotech to detect cancer early ^R 11.696
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 11.730
andrew connolly what's the next window into our universe ^R 11.731
noah feldman says politics and religion are technologies ^R 11.771
noreena hertz: how to use experts—and when not to ^R 11.790
jamais cascio on tools for a better world ^R 11.794
ingenious homes in unexpected places ^R 11.863
susan colantuono: the career advice you probably didn't get ^R 12.250
david puttnam does the media have a duty of care ^R 12.562
boghuma kabisen titanji: ethical riddles in hiv research ^R 12.635
alex wissner-gross a new equation for intelligence ^R 12.679
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 12.722
vikram patel: mental health for all by involving all ^R 13.132
tal danino programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it) ^R 13.138
ben cameron: the true power of the performing arts ^R 13.284
glenn greenwald: why privacy matters ^R 13.719
susan solomon: the promise of research with stem cells ^R 13.890
robert gupta: between music and medicine ^R 13.898
teddy cruz how architectural innovations migrate across borders ^R 13.927
amos winter: the cheap all-terrain wheelchair ^R 14.500