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Tonight scientists at CERN are rebooting the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in an attempt to recreate conditions fractions of a second after the Big Bang by crashing opposing proton beams, traveling at nearly the speed of light, into one...

In the next weeks, the TED Blog will shine the spotlight on the fantastic TED volunteer translators -- offering a glimpse of the people whose efforts continue to enrich the Open Translation Project. Today, we'd like you to meet Anwar...

Tomorrow, Friday November 20th, two of our most exciting TEDx events so far will be streamed live. TEDxNASA was organized by NASA's Langley Research Center and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA). It's a full day of talks on...

At TEDIndia, Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West, and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about gods, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one another. His goal...

Via the TEDActive Blog: At last year's Palm Springs experience, neuroscientist Jim Fallon gave a chilling talk on the biology of psychopathic killers. Tonight he will appear in an episode of the popular CBS series Criminal Minds, playing himself and...

Leadership doesn't have a user's manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a TED salon in London, she shares three. (Recorded at TEDSalon London 2009, September 2009, Oxford, UK. Duration: 16:36)...

Today, we've added some great new ways to share TEDTalks you love. Above is our new share bar, to be found just below the player window on every Talk page. It puts all the ways to share TEDTalks in...

The exciting TEDxSF event is happening today, and they'll be providing a free, live webstream of all their talks. The program promises to be interesting, with talks on neuroscience and willpower, the rise of Silicon Valley, fashion design and...

The goal of TED's Open Translation Project is to bring ideas worth spreading to the wider world by offering TEDTalks with subtitles in as many languages as possible. Still, many of the world's languages aren't yet represented in the project,...

Naming science as his chief inspiration, Mathieu Lehanneur shows a selection of his ingenious designs -- an interactive noise-neutralizing ball, an antibiotic course in one layered pill, asthma treatment that reminds kids to take it, a living air filter, a...

Here's the schedule for the first five TEDTalks to be released from TEDIndia. They're premiering here on TED.com as well as on ted.indiatimes.com -- and on mobile phones at http://indiatimes.vuclip.com. Live now: Pranav Mistry's SixthSense demo -- and an amazing...

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll...

After an accident during a BASE jump on Nov. 11, aerialist Ueli Gegenschatz has died in a Swiss hospital. This spring at TED, Gegenschatz spoke movingly of his desire "to come as close as possible to the human dream of...

Since the TED Open Translation Project launched in May of 2009, more than 1,200 translators have joined the effort to make TEDTalks available in non-English languages. One of the very first translators to join the project was Shlomo Adam. Shlomo...

Cynthia Schneider looks at two international "American Idol"-style shows -- one in Afghanistan, and one in the United Arab Emirates -- and shows the surprising effect that these reality-TV competitions are creating in their societies. (Recorded at TEDGlobal University 2009,...