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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.

How is social media affecting your relationships with the people you care about?

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

Quite a bit, in fact. As poetry critic Stephen Burt will tell you: Poetry may not move the sun and stars, but it can certainly move you.

It’s only human to avoid discussing death. But when we do, we run the risk of not knowing how our loved ones want to live — and die. Advocate and journalist Ellen Goodman tells us how to kick off this critical conversation.

There isn’t much that we can do to stop hackers from stealing the data we entrust to companies. However, there are some easy things we can all do to significantly reduce the harm from such breaches. TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the ACLU, explains.

Sometimes the most obvious solutions are the best ones. Here's how to reconnect with your adult child.

Margaret Heffernan explains why companies should value — treasure! — whistleblowers, how and why Saturn is turning blue, and other good reads from round the web.