Designers have dreamed about creating a refreshable, affordable full-page Braille display for the visually impaired, and a team at the University of Michigan has found an ingenious solution in bubbles. That’s right, bubbles
想象一下，你正在用一台电子设备阅读这篇文章——但它有一个巨大的缺陷：每次只能显示五六个单词，而且在继续阅读下一组内容之前，你还必须等待屏幕刷新。听起来令人沮丧吗？这正是许多盲人和视障人士在用笔记本电脑或平板电脑阅读时的真实体验——他们依赖一种能将普通文字转换为盲文的设备。这些可刷新盲文显示器外形如同迷你键盘，上面排列着一行凸起的小点，通常通过蓝牙或USB与笔记本电脑或平板电脑连接，每次只能显示14至80个字
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Neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris describes a scenario that is both terrifying and likely to occur. It’s not, he says, a good combination.
你是否感到悲伤或焦虑，因而提不起性欲？性行为能刺激“快乐激素”的分泌，有助于提振你的情绪。
Timothy Doner started teaching himself other languages when he was 13, and was quickly hailed as a prodigy for his linguistic proficiency. But as he soon realized, there’s more to fluency than being able to barter over kebabs in Arabic or order from a menu in Hindi.
Artist and TED Fellow Christine Sun Kim, deaf since birth, talks with Daniel Kish, who lost his sight to cancer aged 13 months, about sound and sound “etiquette.”
Personal names are intimately connected to a person’s sense of self, relationships, and well-being. What does it mean, then, when someone changes their name?
Dr. Samantha Nutt, an international humanitarian and author, writes about misogyny and the continuing struggle for women’s equality — and points to the way ahead
The reasons why women and people of color are not pursuing computer science jobs are complicated. Robin Hauser Reynolds, director of a documentary looking at the gender gap, shares four reasons women don’t seem to flourish in the tech world — and proposes some solutions.
As the head of a non-profit that focuses on “end-of-life” care, BJ Miller thinks about death more than most. He shares his answers to commonly-asked questions.
非营利组织Last Mile Health创始人、2017年TED大奖得主拉杰·潘贾比，回顾了埃博拉疫情期间团队在利比里亚的应对经历。2013年底疫情从几内亚蔓延，最终夺走逾11,000人的生命。他从亲历者视角总结了这场史无前例的疫情所揭示的四个残酷真相，以及由此带来的启示。
Culture defines any business, yet it’s also one of the hardest things to manage. In this extract from her TED Book, Margaret Heffernan describes the important, often-overlooked element necessary to build an effective, efficient organization: social capital.