http://www.ted.com With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today — and are often superior to modern water megaprojects.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

http://www.ted.com With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe’s most mysterious objects: black holes. She shares evidence that a supermassive black hole may be lurking at the center of the Milky Way.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Today EA announced that Mirror’s Edge is coming to the iPhone and iPod touch. In this video I take a look at what it’s all about.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

At TED2009, audience member Cindy Gallop gave a 4-minute presentation that became one of the event’s most talked about. Speaking from her personal experience, she argued that hardcore pornography had distorted the way a generation of young men think about sex. She talked about how she was fighting back with the launch of a website — http://makelovenotporn.com — to correct the myths being propagated. You can comment on this talk here: http://blog.ted.com/2009/12/cindy_gallop_ma.php... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

http://www.ted.com India is fast becoming a superpower, says Shashi Tharoor — not just through trade and politics, but through “soft” power, its ability to share its culture with the world through food, music, technology, Bollywood. He argues that in the long run it’s not the size of the army that matters as much as a country’s ability to influence the world’s hearts and minds.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

http://www.ted.com Can the interests of an individual nation be reconciled with humanity’s greater good? Can a patriotic, nationally elected politician really give people in other countries equal consideration? Following his TEDTalk calling for a global ethic, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown fields questions from TED Curator Chris Anderson.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Paste this into the custom icon dialog to get access to the standard Windows icons: %SystemRoot%system32imageres.dll... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Multifl0w is basically a UI refresh for Backgrounder, allowing you to run programs in the background somewhat similarly to Palm’s WebOS. But is it worth the $4.99 price tag?... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

http://www.ted.com At TEDIndia, Mallika Sarabhai, a dancer/actor/politician, tells a transformative story in dance — and argues that the arts may be the most powerful way to effect change, whether political, social or personal.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!