From: TED on Fri, Apr 16 2010 10:36 AM

Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture — and about the meaning of art itself.

From: TED on Tue, Apr 13 2010 11:52 AM

Photographs do more than document history — they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can’t look away -- or back.

From: TED on Mon, Apr 12 2010 11:16 AM

Vaccine-autism claims, "Frankenfood" bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the public’s growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science and reason, says Michael Specter. He warns the trend spells disaster for human progress.

From: TED on Thu, Apr 08 2010 10:29 AM

Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes — and travels remarkably well. Jonathan Drori gives an up-close glimpse of these fascinating flecks of plant courtship.

From: TED on Wed, Apr 07 2010 2:26 PM

At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical suc...

From: TED on Tue, Apr 06 2010 11:03 AM

Soldiers who’ve lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.

From: TED on Mon, Apr 05 2010 10:59 AM

Armed with bracing logic, wit and her "public-health nerd" glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today’s political systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighting the spread of HIV. Her research with at-risk populations — from junkies in prison to se...

From: TED on Thu, Apr 01 2010 12:07 PM

With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)

From: TED on Wed, Mar 31 2010 11:54 AM

How many of today’s headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron's "Long News" project collects stories that not only matter today, but will resonate for decades — even centuries -- to come. At TED2010, he highlights recent headlines with the potential to shape our future.

From: TED on Tue, Mar 30 2010 11:18 AM

Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India’s slums by looking past the daunting statistics and focusing on treating each child as an individual.

From: TED on Wed, Mar 24 2010 12:09 PM

Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They’re crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign — and plain English -- to make legal paperwork intelligible to the rest of us.

From: TED on Mon, Mar 22 2010 11:07 AM

Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

From: TED on Thu, Mar 18 2010 10:16 AM

When the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest climbs occurred, Ken Kamler was the only doctor on the mountain. At TEDMED, he shares the incredible story of the climbers' battle against extreme conditions and uses brain imaging technology to map the medical miracle of one man who s...

From: TED on Wed, Mar 17 2010 10:22 AM

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

From: TED on Tue, Mar 16 2010 10:52 AM

At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it’s imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for ...

From: TED on Mon, Mar 15 2010 10:46 AM

Mark Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It’s wild stuff, but it's not science fiction. Induced by careful use of an otherwise toxic gas, suspended animation can potentially help trauma and heart attack victims survive l...

From: TED on Fri, Mar 12 2010 10:26 AM

Sugar pills, injections of nothing — studies show that, more often than you’d expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know something's not real, you can still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is not suit...

From: TED on Wed, Mar 10 2010 10:17 AM

Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie’s honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fi...

From: TED on Mon, Mar 08 2010 11:25 AM

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.

From: TED on Thu, Mar 04 2010 10:37 AM

James Cameron’s big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic — from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hit...