www.ted.com A pioneer in research on play, Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in...
www.ted.com Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems -- and finds a surprising link among the successful ones they were built through trial and error....
www.ted.com Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is...
www.ted.com Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes.TEDTalks is a daily video...
www.ted.com Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on...
www.ted.com Autism activist Temple Grandin talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that...
www.ted.com Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, "ghostbusters" running through the New York Public Library, and...
www.ted.com The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities,...