MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.

An art school professor once told Deb Willis that she, as a woman, was taking a place from a good man -- but the storied photographer says she instead made a space for a good man, her son Hank Willis Thomas. In this moving talk, the mother and son artists describe how they draw from one another in their work, how their art challenges mainstream ...

How do you take on the world's most persistent problems? Sometimes the solutions are just regular people with the right resources. In this TED Membership conversation, three of the Audacious Project's grantees from 2022 -- Celina De Sola (of Glasswing International, which builds mental health support in Central America); Edith Elliott (of Noora ...

Many of us have a social media presence -- a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you've died? Could it ... live on?

"I am one with the nation" is the motto of the brave Indian Army and Mr. D.B. Rai is no different. Having joined the army in the late 1980s, a diligent individual Mr. Rai wishes people to acknowledge him as one of the society. According to Mr. Rai, there's more to the serving in the army than what meets the eye. His experience has lead to him to...