Since 2015, an unprecedented movement has been sweeping courts around the world. Groups of young plaintiffs are suing their governments for their inaction on tackling climate change. These suits argue that climate inaction violates their...

Thomas Jefferson, founding father of the United States and primary author of the Declaration of Independence, was part of America's fight for freedom and equality. But in his personal life, he held over 600 people in slavery. Are his...

At the end of the Civil War, the United States was still a very divided place. 700,000 people had died in a bitter fight over slavery. Reconstruction was the political process meant to bring the country back together. It was also the...

New York Times columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products that get it right. To funny things up, he bursts into song.

Deep inside Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. It is called the Voynich...

Computational geneticist Yaniv Erlich helped build the world's largest family tree -- comprising 13 million people and going back more than 500 years. He shares fascinating patterns that emerged from the work -- about our love lives, our...

Photographer and TED Fellow Isadora Kosofsky is a chronicler of love, loss and loneliness. In this searching talk, she shares photos from her four years documenting the lives of a senior citizen love triangle -- and reveals what they can...

Eman Mohammed is one of the few female photojournalists in the Gaza Strip. Though openly shunned by many of her male colleagues, she is given unprecedented access to areas denied to men. In this short, visual talk, the TED Fellow...

Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign -- and plain English -- to make legal paperwork intelligible...

Imagine if you could surf Facebook ... from the Middle Ages. Well, it may not be as far off as it sounds. In a fun and interesting talk, Frederic Kaplan shows off the Venice Time Machine, a project to digitize 80 kilometers of books to...

It’s probably not a surprise that many ancient texts are a bit worn out and tattered, and that makes deciphering what they say quite a task. But with new computer tech and artificial intelligence, we are getting much clearer glimpses of...

What exactly is the carbon cycle? Nathaniel Manning provides a basic look into the cyclical relationship of carbon, humans and the environment.

When you think of the US Constitution, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Free speech? The right to bear arms? These passages are cited so often that it's hard to imagine the document without them. But the list of freedoms known...

You might thing that being neat and tidy is the best way to get stuff done, but being messy actually has its perks.

Before there was Google, there were encyclopedias. The very idea of these vast collections of knowledge can be credited to Pliny The Elder. So who was he, and why does he seem to pop up everywhere from Alchemy to Zoology? Hank has the...

New ReviewIn this video, I answer the question, what is a Project Charter? – or Project Mandate?

New ReviewIn this video, I answer the question, What are Heads of Terms, or Heads of Agreement?

New ReviewThinking of just moving on once a project is "done"? Think again! A comprehensive Project Closure Report isn't just bureaucracy – it's your key to documenting success, learning from challenges, and setting future projects up for even...

New ReviewDiamonds have always been a symbol of wealth, power and romance, but maybe not all diamonds should end up on engagement rings, says veteran Sierra Leonean documentary-maker Sorious Samura in the introduction to this his latest film....

Are you using LinkedIn the wrong way? From incomplete profiles to networking missteps, many professionals make the same mistakes that hurt their career opportunities. In this video, Professor Wolters walks through the...

In this video, we will look at the project's next step, the lemmatization process, using the WordNet lemmatizer and the NLTK library for the conversational chatbot.

Get an in-depth look at the typical responsibilities of a Linux administrator, preparing you to tailor your resume accordingly.

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This instructional video provides a detailed guide on how to effectively create and format a business memo. It explains the purpose of a memo, its typical format, and the key components such as the header section, recipient details,...