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Mark Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It's wild stuff, but it's not science fiction. Induced by careful use of an otherwise toxic gas, suspended animation can potentially help...

Cast: Audience at TED's Saturday-morning panel "How to Create a Viral Video." Hands: Damian Kulash from OK Go. (Proof.) Camera: TED's Jason Wishnow. Inspiration: Surprised Kitty and her 21 million views on YouTube. (If you're at SXSWi, come to...

Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!) At the Web 2.0 Expo, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk gives a shot in the arm to dreamers and up-and-comers who face self-doubt. The Internet has made the formula for success simpler than ever,...

Sugar pills, injections of nothing -- studies show that, more often than you'd expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know something's not real, you can still react as...

South by Southwest 2010 starts Friday in Austin, Texas, and the TED team is heading down to present two panels: How to Create a Viral Video Saturday, March 13, 11am From pranks and mashups to world-changing talks, viral videos...

The awesome LA band Ozomatli rocked TED's Wednesday night block party in Long Beach last month -- check out our exclusive photos from the street (and see many more photos here). You can stream Ozomatli's new single, "It's Only...

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Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon...

Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of "Stop" and "Yield" -- and asks drivers to be...

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED U in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data...

Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine In this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms they're made of. This accessible,...

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This morning, we shared the LXD's tremendous TED2010 performance with the world. But on the night before TED started, some of us on staff got a private preview, when we snuck away from our pre-TED prep to watch them...

The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a preview of Jon Chu’s upcoming Web series, this astonishing troupe show off their superpowers. (Recorded at...

The Abreu Fellows are in the running for a $250K grant from Pepsi. You can vote for them once a day ... all month. The Abreu Fellows program is a project of Jose Abreu's 2009 TED Prize wish --...

James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the...

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our...

CNN.com caught some wonderful fresh-from-the-stage interviews with TED2010 speakers. Today, watch this fresh, fiery video interview with Temple Grandin, moments after she delivered her standing-ovation TEDTalk....

Sean Carroll on the arrow of time At the University of Sydney, cosmologist Sean Carroll gives an entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the nature of time, the origin of entropy, and how what happened before the Big Bang might be...

Tell us about yourselves. We are the MaYoMo team -- a group of individuals with different backgrounds in various spheres. Among us we have a journalist, linguists, developers, a designer, a historian, a musician, artists and an entrepreneur. Our...