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位于挪威斯瓦尔巴群岛的全球种子库被称为”末日穹顶”，旨在保护世界种子多样性免受自然灾害与战争破坏，设计使用寿命长达一万年。本文专访其幕后推手凯里·福勒，这位种子守护者正身处一个奇特的境地——他衷心希望自己毕生心血永远不必被动用。

If you can move beyond the boring basics when you’re asked “What do you do?”, you’ll set yourself up for new relationships, opportunities and revelations, says introduction expert Joanna Bloor.

Musician and sound artist Jason Sweeney lives and works in Adelaide, Australia; he describes it as “a prototype for what a developed city in the western world could be like.” Here, he tells Alison Prato about life in his city.

How can you protect crops against global warming? One answer: find the secrets of plants that already thrive in the most punishing climates, says microbiologist Rusty Rodriguez.

Figuring out how to walk from A to B is easy in the age of online mapping tools. Just plug in two addresses and off you go. But sometimes getting to a place as quickly as possible isn’t the priority. Take a look at a project in which researchers tried to figure out a city’s “happy” routes.

The theme of TED2018 is The Age of Amazement, and these speakers’ books are bursting with wonders of every kind: intellectual, scientific, urban, technological, economic, historical, aquatic, even extraterrestrial.

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.”

Time is precious, we know. Here, compiled from past reading lists, are suggestions for two dozen short but mighty books to pick up.

Those days of holding back what you really think are over. Leadership consultant Molly Tschang provides five simple tips to help you effectively speak your mind.

This week’s digital mailbag includes thoughts on the late Rita Pierson’s call to educational arms and a very personal response to Stella Young’s argument that just because she’s in a wheelchair, we really shouldn’t see her as being an inspiration.