CIA spy thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Let's just hope Leo doesn't take a sudden bullet to the head this time.

Yep that's right. Its Facebook in real life. Is it a total disaster or something really helpful? Well take a look and see for yourself.

Although Google is positioning its new Android platform as freeing cellphone software developers, the search engine giant's attempt to favor certain developers, technical issues, and shaky commercial appeal are reportedly driving would-be partners to iPhone.

Today on Fox News, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol revealed that former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell may endorse Obama and speak at the Democratic convention on Wednesday, Aug. 27

CERN's LHC will need a "dump" made up of 10-ton graphite cylinder is interleaved with various heavy metals and encased in 1000 metric tons of steel and concrete - all to slow down some of the smallest particles in the universe.

Are the Olympics inspiring you to get in shape? These gadgets will help get you there.

A boy of nine was nearly blinded after opening an exploding joke pen.

An interactive timeline of Ian Fleming's and James Bond's lives.

Researchers at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of California, Berkeley have for the first time found a way to cloak 3D materials. They did this with not only one, but with two different materials.

Well, this one is original, I’ll give it that…I got an interesting email from French BABloggee Pierre Joliveau. His father worked on some nuclear tests in French Polynesia back in the 1950s, and took some amazing photographs of the explosions.

Apparently a UCSD political science professor, James H. Fowler, has just published a bona fide research paper on the effects of the “Colbert Bump.”

"We invest all this effort, all this faux national pride, the pages of blather, the air miles, the travelling dignitaries, the full panoply of pomp - and in the end, all that's happened is somebody has managed to swim fast. Or run. Or jump. Perhaps all three."

Considered one of the world's largest physics experiments to date, the Large Hadron Collider is a gigantic particle accelerator located in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel along the French-Swiss border about 330 feet underground. It was built by the European Organization for nuclear Research, also known as CERN.

The Homer has two bubbles; the one in the front is for Homer and Marge, while the one in the back is for Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Homer made two separate ones because he didn't want his kids annoying him. The horn's song is La Cucaracha.

The chick certainly likes the snake in his pants. :-)

Also known as The Video Game Crash of 1984 (or The North American Video Game Crash), this event severely impacted the video game industry. The Gaming Historian covers the major reasons for the crash and the damage it caused.

"Georgian ports and airports will be taken under the control of the U.S. defense ministry in order to conduct humanitarian and other missions. This is a very important statement for easing tension."

A counterintuitive way to fight a chronic infection linked with meningitis - by damping down the immune system - could have wider uses in tackling Aids and hepatitis.

Why does a country that was formerly part of the USSR have the same name as a state in the American Deep South?

For the next week, we're presenting some of our favorite TEDTalks from among the 270+ talks and performances we've posted since June 2006. Look for brand-new TEDTalks starting August 18. Until then, enjoy these gems -- and suggest your own by writing to contact@ted.com or joining the conversation on TED.com.