Sweet Caroline in Tokyo

And what is fascinating is that compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

For example, fascinating talks contain a statistically high amount of exactly this blue color, much more than the average TEDTalk.

If people like Kitty Jones right, a shut out a private music teacher and mom from Champagne, Illinois, who wanted to share her fantastic music content with the world, on how to teach kids how to play music.

For too long, African governments have listened to the siren song of free trade and have suffered from too much openness, not too little.

The vacation home boom appears psychologically tied to the urban home price bubble in many of the world s glamour cities, and prices of these vacation homes are similarly vulnerable to a significant drop in coming years.

Beyond the glamorous skyscrapers of Beijing, Shanghai, and other urban centers, the majority of Chinese who live in the countryside have gained little from the material progress of the past two decades.

Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20 astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.