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Dying and death confront every new doctor and nurse. Are they trained to cope with mortality? A surgeon weighs in

Why would a plant want an animal to have sex with it? Because, it turns out, plants can be manipulative and deceitful! Wild sex expert Carin Bondar explains.

Udacity创始人塞巴斯蒂安·特龙与启发了他的人——可汗学院创始人萨尔曼·汗展开对话，探讨MOOCs（大规模开放在线课程）的现状与挑战，以及如何在数字时代重新发明教育，涵盖商业模式、教学法创新与在线教育的边界等核心议题。

TED大会结束后，作者在温哥华一家旧书店邂逅了一名普通店员。受凯文·布里格斯警官TED演讲的触动，两人聊起了同一段广播——店员讲述了自己曾在狮门大桥上停车倾听一名欲轻生男子的经历，用陪伴与倾听守住了一条生命。

四十名来自叙利亚各地的社区领袖冒险越境赴土耳其，参加一场关于如何在内战中重建社会的密集工作坊。冲突解决专家与他们共同探讨：在政府崩溃、人道主义危机肆虐之际，如何帮助人们不仅活下去，更能为未来构筑希望。

在TED2014大会上，演讲者和与会者围绕”下一个篇章”这一主题，畅想未来30年可能彻底改变社会、生活与科技的26个大胆预测，从吞药丸学语言到纳米机器人进入大脑，从拒绝孤立技术到重拾阅读，答案妙趣横生、发人深省。

Your job: Be interesting. Researcher and author Laurel Braitman explains.

跨性别议题日益受到公众关注。本文汇集了跨性别男女及其支持者的建议，探讨如何以尊重、审慎的语言谈论跨性别群体，包括区分生理性别与社会性别、使用正确代词、避免冒犯性词汇，以及不追问当事人的身体状况等，为促进平等与接纳提供实用指引。

Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky shows us the surprising ways that our brains get mixed up between the physical and metaphorical — and how this can pit us against each other.

Many farmworkers in the US receive inadequate wages and experience harassment, violence and even sexual assault. But thanks to the innovative Fair Food Program, which signs up big companies like McDonald’s and Taco Bell, conditions in the tomato fields in several states have been reformed. Here’s how it works — and how you can do your part.