The Compleat Traveller

OK Go: How to Find a Wonderful Idea If you are a popular music fan that has been paying any sort of attention to the music scene over...

Last week in my regular TED on Tuesday post, Ben Saunders -  Trek to The North Pole or Stay at Home?  I featured two inspiring talks by ...

Ben Saunders is one of those all too rare individuals who has taken life ‘by the horns’, to use a well-known phrase, and pushed his mind...

Screen shot from the Jill Heinerth TED video Cave diver Jill Heinerth explores the hidden underground waterways coursing through our ...

Screen shot only. Watch the full video below. Paul Nicklen: Animal tales from icy wonderlands Diving under the Antarctic ice to g...

Aziz Abu Sarah helps people break down cultural and historical barriers through tourism. When Aziz Abu Sarah was a boy, his older br...

Image courtesy TED and Camille Seaman As a keen traveller, I have taken more than my share of photographs at each stop on my extended ...

Australian speakers seem to be few and far between on TED, so I was particularly pleased to watch this talk by the former cross-country ...

Philippe Petit during his 1974 Twin Towers walk Philippe Petit is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk bet...

Two great TED  talks for you today―both from National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Wade Davis . The first is a short (6:35 min) ta...

James Howard Kunstler is an American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books  The Geography ...

Image courtesy Sue Austin website... Multimedia, performance and installation artist Sue Austin challenges our notions of what disab...

Sir Ken Robinson In my family and extended family, I count at least nine members who are involved in various fields of education, eit...

Ron Finley. Photo: James Duncan Davidson ~ Artist and designer Ron Finley could not help but notice what was going on in his backyard...