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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What I love about the annual TED gathering in ...

If, like me, you are a fan of the science fiction author Ted Chiang, you know he doesn't publish as often as some of his peers. TED CHIANG: I wish I, you know, wrote faster. I can't claim any moral ...

Editor’s Note: Beau Lotto is founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab based in London. He spoke at TEDGlobal 2012 in Edinburgh, U.K., in June. TED is a nonprofit dedicated to “Ideas ...

This week, some of Ars’ top science stories came from our Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher, who was attending the TED talks in California. TED typically features people with big ideas that have the ...

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The organization behind the TED talks took what might have been an embarrassing bit of publicity and turned it into an opportunity to define what constitutes decent scientific information. Although ...