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In 1967, Moshe Safdie reimagined the monolithic apartment building, creating “Habitat ’67,” which gave each unit an un...

Sixty percent of people with dementia wander off, an issue that can prove hugely stressful for both patients and careg...

Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case ...

Perhaps you've punched out a paper doll or folded an origami swan? TED Fellow Manu Prakash and his team have created a...

Reality isn't something you perceive; it's something you create in your mind. Isaac Lidsky learned this profound lesso...

Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, car...

Astronomers believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, one fifth of which might harbor life. Only we haven't ...

As a teenager, Ismael Nazario was sent to New York’s Rikers Island jail, where he spent 300 days in solitary confineme...

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or s...

To those who feel like they don't belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. Author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wa...

What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money. But it's not exactly joy either. It s...

Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending y...

“People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with a specific label,” says 1...

After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone -- but Derek Sivers says it's bette...

In life's toughest moments, how do you go on living? Kate Bowler has been exploring this question ever since she was d...

Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So w...

We humans set a premium on our own free will and independence ... and yet there's a shadowy influence we might not be ...

Young poet, educator and activist Malcom London performs his stirring poem about life on the front lines of high schoo...

By 2050, it will take 100 billion land animals to provide the world's population with meat, dairy, eggs and leather go...

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized s...