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Half the vaccines that are manufactured each year don’t make it to their destination, getting lost or damaged along the way between manufacturer and remote health clinics. That means that each year, 1.5 million children in the developing world die needlessly. Neuroscientist and TED Fellow Catharine Young explains a novel approach she thinks can fix the problems.

Losing yourself in a task helps you to get more done — and there’s no need to wait for inspiration to strike, says violinist Diane Allen.

Here’s how the dancer, teacher and dance historian Andrew Nemr is trying to make tap dance relevant again.

Do you think your country’s political system is broken? Simon Anholt has a solution: the Good Country Party, which looks beyond borders to include everyone from everywhere.

Positive psychologist advocate Shawn Achor thinks that the key to success is being happy, not the other way around. Dig into his must-reads books and articles.

Economist Robin Hanson thinks the era of ems — robots with artificial copies of human brains — could occur in the next century. Read his astonishing predictions … and prepare for your jaw to drop.

Iwan Baan takes photos of homes born from human ingenuity. See 18 of his intriguing images.

An open-source project is striving to create the world’s first fully digital organism. Here’s a peek inside the process that could bring us to a better understanding of life itself.

多媒体艺术家Miwa Matreyek将动画、影子戏与音乐融为一体，在TED舞台上创作出极具超现实感的现场表演。她的新作《这个世界自我造就》从宇宙大爆炸出发，以梦幻方式重现地球形成与史前演变历程，探索视觉、身体与想象力的边界。

The drive to hook up a billion Indian people to the internet sounds daunting — but it may well make the internet better for everyone.