In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge...

America's school systems are funded by the 50 states.   https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_how_state_budgets_are_breaking_us_schools?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets...

Det blir lite extra mycket TED idag. Föreläsningar om skilda ämnen som jag tycker är viktiga och som jag hoppas att du också kommer att tycka är viktiga, intressanta och värda att titta och lyssna på. Allt är inte fakta, en hel del är vinklingar, funderingar och...

Malika Whitley is the founder of ChopArt, an organization for homeless teens focused on mentorship, dignity and opportunity through the arts....

Every human deserves protection under their country’s laws — even when that law is forgotten or ignored. Sharing three cases from her international legal practice, Kimberley Motley, an American litigator practicing in Afghanistan and elsewhere, shows how a country’s...

"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet's oxygen -- without them, life as we know it wouldn't exist. In this talk and tech demo, Zimmerman and cell engineer Simone...

Robb Willer studies the forces that unite and divide us. As a social psychologist, he researches how moral values -- typically a source of division -- can also be used to bring people together. Willer shares compelling insights on how we might bridge the ideological...

In the US, your taxes fund academic research at public universities. Why then do you need to pay expensive, for-profit journals for the results of that research? Erica Stone advocates for a new, open-access relationship between the public and scholars, making the case...

Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography -- to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men...

How can we make AI that people actually want to interact with? Raphael Arar suggests we start by making art. He shares interactive projects that help AI explore complex ideas like nostalgia, intuition and conversation -- all working towards the goal of making our...

Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a ballsy lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men. https://www.ted.com/talks/yossi_vardi_fights_local_warming?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare