- August 28, 2008 • 7:07 pm PDT
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Every year, the technology, entertainment, and design worlds' most inspired movers and shakers convene in Long Beach, California, for a week...
Maria "Brainpicker" Popova saw our post The 10 Best Talks from TED 2010 and wondered aloud on Twitter if we maybe missed a few highlights (and...
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Garage Talk The lauded nonprofit TED's "Ideas Worth Spreading" series is truly inspirational. Through its legendary talks and annual...
Our friend Jonathan Greenblatt is at the TED conference, absorbing the wisdom of the illuminati. This is his second dispatch (we added some links,...
The Seed Vault, which is keeping copies of every seed in the world in a secure vault in the Arctic Circle, is a source of endless fascination. We...
GOOD contributor Parag Khanna spoke recently at TED about how political maps cannot possibly contain the movement of the people, goods, and ideas...
The winners of the 2008 TED Prize were announced last week. They're physicist Neil Turok, religious historian Karen Armstrong, and author and...
Text by Maria Popova; artwork by Len Kendall The TED Conference has long been a beacon of positive change. Since 1984, the annual gathering in...

Ted Haggard's journey hasn't been easy, but he's slowly making his way back into our good graces. You should give the guy a break, too.
TEDActive, the action-oriented arm of the renowned conference-turned-movement, wants to catalyze a student-led education reform revolution.

A great battle for the power of the internet is being waged by autocrats and democractic movements. One company is trying to sway the balance.

Marcin Jakubowski is trying to create robust, modular versions of the 50 machines that every modern community needs.
Ted Leo, the hard-charging punk-rocker we profiled in our most recent Portraits section, was more than miffed with the violence at the...
During his TED speech on Friday, Bill Gates took on climate change, saying the world needs serious breakthroughs in energy technology. "What we're...
Emily Pilloton believes that good design can change the world. Here's her TED Talk on the subject.

The TED Wish of the street artist allows anyone to send in a portrait and receive a poster of themselves to post in a public space.