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On Tuesday night, we published a very special TED Talk, recorded for TED2017 by His Holiness Pope Francis in Vatican City. In it, His Holiness comments on the state of the world as we find it to...

https://blog.ted.com/the-making-of-his-holiness-pope-franciss-ted-talk/

(Editor’s note, as of Nov. 1, 2019: Ameenah Gurib-Fakim stepped down as president of Mauritius in March 2018, following accusations that she misused a credit card given to her by a nonprofit. R...

https://blog.ted.com/surprise-youre-the-president-a-conversation-with-the-first-female-president-of-mauritius/

Jane Andraka has raised two remarkable sons. Luke, age 20, is studying electrical engineering at Virginia Tech. “He was always tinkering and taking things apart — wondering how they worked, w...

https://blog.ted.com/a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate/

Jaap de Roode is a biologist who studies parasites and their hosts — particularly Monarch butterflies. At TEDYouth 2014, he spoke about Monarch butterflies, their self-medicating ingenuity — ...

https://blog.ted.com/a-youth-reporter-finds-out-how-monarchs-fight-their-own-parasites/

Conservation ecologist Eric Sanderson makes a science out of envisioning New York City in the past and the future. His Mannahatta project was a 10-year deep dive into the green landscape of Manha...

https://blog.ted.com/a-wildlife-conservationist-tells-a-teen-reporter-about-the-past-and-future-of-a-lush-green-nyc/

Gil Weinberg creates musically included robots so good they can improvise. The founder of the Music Technology program at Georgia Tech, he also creates innovative music apps and has contributed...

https://blog.ted.com/a-teen-reporter-talks-to-a-music-technologist/

Khalida Brohi grew up traveling between two very different parts of Pakistan: the bustling city of Karachi, where her parents moved so that she and her sisters could go to school, and a small vi...

https://blog.ted.com/embroidery-for-empowerment-a-qa-with-khalida-brohi/

Yesterday, while our staff finished last-minute preparations for TEDGlobal 2014, a kind of hush fell over the streets of Rio de Janeiro as Brazilians voted in their presidential election. I...

https://blog.ted.com/street-artist-mundano-creates-political-art-from-brazlian-election-waste/

How colorful is the ocean floor? And what exactly do you do when you run out of air underwater? Yesterday, we invited all of you to talk with oceanographer Sylvia Earle about her adventures as a ...

https://blog.ted.com/highlights-from-our-qa-with-sylvia-earle/

Earlier this month, the Queen announced legislation to clamp down on corporate secrecy in her speech at the opening of Parliament in the United Kingdom. This may be news to the rest of the world,...

https://blog.ted.com/q-and-a-with-ted-prize-winner-charmian-gooch-three-months-into-her-campaign-to-end-anonymous-companies/

If you ever find yourself in Brazil, advises Misha Glenny, try to look past the samba, soccer and sea. The journalist, who is currently researching a book on the underground drug trade in Rio de...

https://blog.ted.com/how-the-world-cup-can-make-or-break-brazils-hopes-for-the-future-misha-glenny/

Two weeks ago, hours after Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed to “wipe out” Twitter, his government blocked access to the platform across the country. It was just weeks before...

https://blog.ted.com/turkey-banned-twitter-keren-elazari/

“If only the earth could hold up a mirror to itself …” Say no more, thought the impatient billionaire in the audience at the TED conference, who found the speaker’s voice as whiny and ir...

https://blog.ted.com/bj-novak-on-his-ted-short-story/

By Lisa Katayama In a developed country where the dialogue around human rights is very charity-minded, it’s rare to find young people with visions of engaging rural farmers in developing countr...

http://ideas.ted.com/2014/02/06/a-new-approach-to-global-aid-where-everyone-is-equals/

Maya Penn is a tiny, vibrant force of nature. She’s an entrepreneur, philanthropist, fashion designer, animator, blogger, writer and illustrator. She runs a budding eco-friendly fashion busines...

http://ideas.ted.com/maya-penn-entrepreneur/

Larry Lessig is about to complete a 185-mile walk across the state of New Hampshire. He began this journey on January 11 and has walked despite rain, sleet, snow, ice and freezing cold, as the te...

https://blog.ted.com/larry-lessig-completes-185-mile-walk-across-new-hampshire/

When 12-year-old Peyton Robertson sees a problem, he is going to fix it. So when the young scientist noticed a perennial problem in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida –flooding during the...

http://ideas.ted.com/this-scientist-has-three-patents-pending-he-also-happens-to-be-12/

By the second week of January, that resolution that once seemed so reasonable — go to the gym every other day, read a book a week, only drink alcohol on weekends — is starting to seem very ...

https://blog.ted.com/the-science-of-willpower-kelly-mcgonigal-on-why-its-so-dang-hard-to-stick-to-a-resolution/

17-year-old Beth Reekles had a really good year. She published two books; appeared on national TV; sold the film rights for her first book, The Kissing Booth; graduated from high school and start...

http://ideas.ted.com/beth-reekles-teen-fiction/

If you’ve ever had the ending of your favorite TV show ruined by a spoiler-filled tweet, Jennie Lamere feels your pain. The 18-year-old tech whiz won the grand prize at Boston’s TVNext Hack e...

http://ideas.ted.com/teen-hacker-jennie-lamere/