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Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco says, "I'm going to take you on a journey." And does she ever. Showing breathtaking images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, she focuses on Saturn's intriguing largest moon, Titan, with its deserts, mudflats and puzzling...

Paul MacCready's first try for the Kremer Prize for human-powered flight, in 1976, was his Gossamer Condor, a Mylar-covered aircraft powered by a very, very tenacious bicyclist. Filmmaker Don Shedd followed MacCready's team as they designed and built this elegant...

Live-blog heroes Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani, veterans of TED and other conferences around the world, have worked together to share what they know in the six-page, illustrated guidebook "Tips for Conference Bloggers." It's full of ideas for how to...

Al Gore (TED2006 speech) at last week's Clinton Global Initiative: "The key to fighting global poverty is to have the wealthy nations and the developing nations join together to reduce global warming ... What we need is a global Marshall...

Some selected source material and references from Wednesday night's TED Salon: David Keith (pictured, left) showed a New York Times editorial on the coming climate change -- from May 24, 1953: How Industry May Change ClimateThe amount of carbon dioxide...

Last night at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, Bono (watch his 2005 TEDTalk) and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (watch her TEDTalks) accepted the Liberty Medal, honoring Bono and DATA for their work in Africa. One of the local papers put together a...

Last night in New York City, 250 TEDsters gathered to hear some radical proposals for outsmarting climate change. It's a fact: Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising, and with them the possibility of severe climate change within our lifetimes. Increasingly,...

Paul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career. After his record-breaking work on human-powered aircraft in the 1970s, with the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, MacCready's attention turned to addressing a...

Last night in Manhattan, TED hosted its 2007 Salon, called "Hot Science: Radical Ideas to Combat the Climate Crisis." A detailed roundup is coming later today -- but first, a few quotes from last night: The first speaker, Michael Oppenheimer,...

Last spring, singer-songwriter Stew (whose playful, provocative performance was a highlight of TED2006) rewrote the book on musicals with "Passing Strange," a groundbreaking show that won rave reviews during its limited, sold-out run. Developed with the Public Theater as part...

Stephen Petranek reveals the question that occupies scientists at the end of the day (and the beginning of happy hour): How might the world end? He lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human...

Saul Griffith (watch his TEDTalk) has been awarded a 2007 MacArthur "genius" grant. Griffith is one of the brains behind Instructables, a community website that lets users share directions for ... almost anything, from building your own home lathe to...

This week, the UN and the World Bank launched the Stolen Asset Recovery initiative, or StAR -- a plan to help poor countries recover funds stolen by corrupt leaders and stashed overseas. According to Reuters: World Bank estimates that cross-border...

Wednesday night, Jill Sobule (watch her TEDTalk performance) and the modern string ensemble Ethel (watch their TEDTalk performance) paired up to play a charming set together in Central Park, a preview of the upcoming album from this partnership that began...

The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art -- a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web...

Zeresenay "Zeray" Alemseged has been digging the badlands of Ethiopia, looking for clues to humanity's origins. Here he talks about one of his most exciting finds: the 3.3-million-year-old bones of Selam, a 3-year-old hominid child, from the species Australopithecus afarensis....

Paul MacCready's first try for the Kremer Prize for human-powered flight, in 1976, was his Gossamer Condor, a Mylar-covered aircraft powered by a very, very tenacious bicyclist. Filmmaker Don Shedd followed MacCready's team as they designed and built this elegant...

Live-blog heroes Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani, veterans of TED and other conferences around the world, have worked together to share what they know in the six-page, illustrated guidebook "Tips for Conference Bloggers." It's full of ideas for how to...

Al Gore (TED2006 speech) at last week's Clinton Global Initiative: "The key to fighting global poverty is to have the wealthy nations and the developing nations join together to reduce global warming ... What we need is a global Marshall...

Some selected source material and references from Wednesday night's TED Salon: David Keith (pictured, left) showed a New York Times editorial on the coming climate change -- from May 24, 1953: How Industry May Change ClimateThe amount of carbon dioxide...