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English is fast becoming the world’s universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia...
Saying “I love you” often feels more meaningful in your first language than in any other language you learn later in life, explains linguist and polyglot...
Why do wolves howl? With the help of AI, we’re getting closer to an answer. Linguist and software engineer Jeffrey T. Reed shares his research on...
In environmental reporting, “it’s not always about the big climate story,” says journalist Katherine Dunn. (Recorded at TED Countdown: Overcoming Dilemmas in the Green Transition on...
If architect and writer John Cary has his way, women will never need to stand in pointlessly long bathroom lines again. Lines like these are representative...
In a conversation about visionary leadership, M-PESA CEO Sitoyo Lopokoiyit speaks with impact investor and Acumen CEO Jacqueline Novogratz about how he grew a nascent mobile...
We often think donating clothes is a sustainable act, but when tons of garments are shipped to places like West Africa, it creates environmental waste and...
With his art, photographer Platon seeks to strip away assumptions and leave viewers with a window into his subject’s character, filling our eyes with wonder and...
In a moment that stunned the world in 2019, the famed Notre-Dame in Paris went up in flames, threatening the future of the centuries-old Gothic treasure....
What if solving hunger isn’t about growing more food but wasting less of it? Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe-Houston has made that idea her mission with Goodr,...
