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Andrew Solomon regularly writes — beautifully — of people coping in unthinkable conditions: a woman who learns to love the daughter she bore after being raped; the father who tries to come to terms with his murderous son. Figuring out a way to cope with purposeless tragedy poses a real challenge for meaning-making humans. Thu Ha digs in.

Embodied cognition links our thoughts and experiences. Research has connected our own facial movements to the interpretation of the emotions of others.

纽约资深急救医疗技术员马修·奥莱利分享了面对垂死患者时如何诚实回答”我快死了吗？”这一问题的亲身经历。他从最初不敢说出真相，到因一次摩托车事故改变了自己的做法，学会了在生命的最后时刻给予患者真诚与尊重。

将技术引入课堂并非灵丹妙药，优质教学没有应用程序可以替代。本文提供8条切实可行的建议，帮助教师以真正提升课堂效果的方式运用技术，在内在动机与外部激励、个性化与标准化之间找到平衡。

A new, research-backed scale attempts to predict if a partner will be unfaithful.

阿根廷活动人士皮亚·曼奇尼在TEDGlobal 2014上发出追问：互联网时代的民主应当是什么样的？她与伙伴们共同开发了开源平台DemocracyOS，将国会法案转化为通俗语言供公民讨论，并亲身参与选举，以实际行动探索政治体制的革新之路。

Historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class.

As anyone who’s ever recovered from an injury knows, physical therapy can be painful, boring and slow. Romanian entrepreneur and TED Fellow Cosmin Mihaiu is out to change that with MIRA, software that disguises physical therapy exercises as fun-to-play videogames. Here’s how it works.

Shared fictions — in the form of news, religions, novels, sports, money, even brands — fill our lives, but that’s OK. It’s these shared beliefs that have helped humans cooperate and conquer the planet, explains historian Yuval Harari.

Kenyan tech entrepreneur Juliana Rotich shares places she loves in her home town, from where to get chupati to where to see baby elephants. With photos by Joshua Wanyama.